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Subject: Simple Bishop Trap

Author: Jeff Anderson

Date: 02:58:35 02/15/99

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On February 15, 1999 at 03:22:50, Jouni Uski wrote:

>In was quite surprised, that in two consecutine(!) tournament game between
>Junior 5 and Crafty 16.3 Junior eats a7 pawn with bishop. So after b6 bishop is
>lost. I have never seen Mchess or Rebel even considering that. Hmmm...

I believe that Crafty has something in its eval that keeps it from playing this
move even when it cannot actually see the bishop being captured after it's
trapped.  Is there any test position to see if a program will do this or not?

• Re: Simple Bishop Trap Steffen Jakob 05:01:14 02/15/99
  • Re: Simple Bishop Trap Amir Ban 00:47:25 02/17/99
    • Asymmetric scoring Don Dailey 14:23:15 02/17/99
      • Re: Asymmetric scoring Robert Hyatt 05:37:46 02/18/99
      • Re: Asymmetric scoring Christophe Theron 16:17:55 02/17/99
    • Re: Simple Bishop Trap Dirk Frickenschmidt 13:11:40 02/17/99
    • Re: Simple Bishop Trap Jouni Uski 01:24:39 02/17/99
  • Re: Simple Bishop Trap Robert Hyatt 10:55:49 02/15/99

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