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Subject: Re: Junior's Tactical Blind Spot?!?

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 09:04:51 01/11/99

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On January 10, 1999 at 05:41:13, blass uri wrote:

>
>On January 10, 1999 at 01:32:03, Len Eisner wrote:
>
>>I reached this position in a game against Junior 5 and Junior played hxg? which
>>loses to Qf5!.  How did Junior miss fxg holding the position?  It seems like an
>>obvious tactical mistake.
>>
>>1rq1r1k1/2p1bpp1/p1Qp4/3Np3/1PP3b1/P2PP1p1/3B1P1P/R1R3K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Len
>
>Qf5 is not an easy move for computer programs.
>
>Fritz5.16 cannot needs almost a minute to find Qf5 on my pentium200MMX and does
>not see it as an advantage for black when it finds it.
>
>Fritz5 and Junior4.6 prefer fxg but not because they see Qf5.
That's because there is no forced moves in this position. And the reason why
chess engines do not find or evaluate any advantage to Qf5 for Black is because
White does not need to play Qxc7?? which is a very bad move, also it has to do
with the pruning of the chess engine to guess what move his opponent will play
next, and the choice of moves are too large. As the position unfolds the chess
engine is able to understand more of the position, and the reason of the change
of the evaluation.
Fritz 5.32 (P200 MMX, 32 MB Hash) after 6 minutes of evaluating the position
after 1. hxg3 gives the following:
0.22 1. ... Qf5 2. f4 Qxd3 3. Be1 Rbc8 4. Bf2 exf4 5. exf4 Bf3 6. Nxe7+
After 9 minutes:
0.00 1. ... Qf5 2. f4 Qxd3 3. Be1 Rbc8 4. Bf2 exf4 5. exf4 Bf3 6. Re1



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