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Subject: Re: Mystery - why b6?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 12:16:08 05/29/05

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On May 29, 2005 at 13:44:31, Jack Lad wrote:

>[d] 8/8/P3kp2/1PR4p/4bp1P/2K3P1/8/8 w
>
>1.gxf4 is better and leads to a quicker win than 1.b6 so why do engines prefer
>the latter?  Or maybe your engine doesn't - let me know please.

      Could this behaviour be due to too much pruning? 1.b6
      is such an easy win with a very very positive evaluation
      so that the engines need not look any further.
      Kurt



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