Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 04:55:17 04/30/05
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On April 29, 2005 at 09:45:49, Peter Berger wrote: >On April 25, 2005 at 22:56:24, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On April 25, 2005 at 12:44:22, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>[D]r1bqkb1r/pp1n1pp1/2p1Nn1p/8/3P4/3B1N2/PPP2PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 8 >>> >>>Some programs like White here(shredder or Junior) >>>Some programs prefer black(for example Yace or Movei) >>> >>>It may be interesting to know if the programs that prefer white can win with >>>white against the programs that prefer black at 120/40 time control. >>> >>>I have no time for testing it now but if other people are interested in doing it >>>then I will be interested to see the games. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >>The move 7...h6 is considered a huge mistake in top GM human play -- but it was >>reported much later after the match that several grandmaster were able to win >>this position with black against the top computer programs of the day. > >I disagree with this assessment. It is not 100% clear if the sac is even >correct. It was still a bad decision to play this line against a computer of >course. > >8. ...Qe7 is considered to be a clear mistake, although it's not _that_ clear >either. > >An interesting starting point for further analysis should be 8. ...fxe6 9. Bg6+ >Ke7. One of the little published analysis I could find by Granda Zuniga even >favours black. > >The reason this hasn't played much might be more of a psychological nature. This >whole kind of position is not to the taste of the typical Caro Kann player, and >why go for it if there is such a natural move as Bd6 availlable. And of course >the line has been discarded due to the Deep Blue game too. > >In practice white seems to score extremely well, but it might be one of the >lines that get revived once a top GM gets interested to have a closer look. Apparently the PCs from 1997 liked to follow up the piece sac by playing Re1, Qe2 and Qxe6, trading queens in order to decrease the material deficit. I guess this discovery was something Kasparov was keeping in his pocket for the last game with black. This is the tricky thing with relying on an anti-computer approach. If you guess right, the computer looks really bad. If you guess wrong, you look really bad. Vas
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