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Subject: Re: Positions from DOCC04

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 00:58:17 10/28/04

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On October 27, 2004 at 18:20:46, Will Singleton wrote:

>Amateur:
>
>Pos 1 -- plays Ka5, fails to see the exchange of rooks leading to the draw.
>After Bd1, the score is only a little worse, so Amateur fails this one.
>
>Pos 2 -- plays fxe4; not sure that it's worse than taking with the rook.

I believe fxe4 is worse or at least very risky, due to the huge majority on the
king wing including defended passer against the "weak" isolated passer.
Rxe4 probably leads to a draw.

>
>Pos 3 -- plays Qd6; thinks it's about half-pawn better than Qg7.

Yes, keeping the queens on the board seems necessary here.
Maybe it's lost anyway.

>
>Pos 4 -- plays Qc1; thinks Qc1, Qa1 and Rg1 are all about the same.
>
>Pos 5 -- plays R3h2; but Rg3 looks better: Rg3 Qe6 Rxg5 Qxc4 Qa1
>
>The last is interesting because of the long checking sequence which
>could occur if Qh2 rather than Qa1.  Some engines might think all those
>checks should reduce the score due to the possibility of a rep draw.

Yes, that was the case with IsiChess ;-(

Gerd



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