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Subject: Re: What does your program play in this position?

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 14:28:08 02/06/99

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>>Chessmaster 6000 never gives Bxc3 any serious thought, and almost immediately
>>prefers Be6. After thinking for about 3 minutes, it still prefers Be6:
>>
>>8... Be6 9.a3 Qa5 10.Bd2 Nf6.... with a .54 advantage for white.
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>>jm
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>Be6 looks ugly from a chess point of view.  Either Bd7 or Nf6 or moving the
>epawn seem more logical to me...

While HIARCS 7 prefers the flawed Bxc3, I used "Next best move" to see
what it liked, otherwise. It also chose Be6 for at least the period
of 1-4 minutes ( 180MHz 604e, 256k hash), with the PV:

09   8...Be6 a3 Qa5 Bd2 h6 Nd5 Qd8 Bc3 Bxc3 Nxc3 Nf6 Qd2 =  -46

Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)



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