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Subject: Re: Similar theme: A very posioned pawn

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:22:34 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 19:16:13, Geoff Westwood wrote:

>I have just been looking through some games my program lost in a tourney.
>
>La Dame Blanche (white) v Waster (Black)
>
>Here is a another avoid move example, this was a corker of a bad move by Waster
>
>[D]2r1r1k1/5pp1/p1q4p/1pnNP1b1/2P4P/1P3Q2/PB6/R5RK b - h3 0 27
>
>Looking at the log it thought for 1min 9 secs before playing the gem of a move
>Bxh4.
>
>Is my program being very dumb or is this a hard move to avoid ? Interested to
>see what other programs think of it ?
>
>I wonder how I can improve it to stop it taking that pesky pawn, havent got much
>of an idea at the moment
>
>     Geoff

Crafty drops Bh4 after a second on my quad xeon, and then settles on bxc4, but
thinks white is winning with a score of +2.7.  At 8 plies, a fraction of a
second, it finds Bxh4 as +7.0 and drops it instantly.



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