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Subject: Re: Junior: really a 2554 program as SSDF list claims?

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 17:48:35 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...

7k/ppp1bpp1/7p/8/8/1P1PB2P/1P3PP1/5K2 w

Is this the kind of example you were considering?
Sometimes its ok to take the pawn as the bishop can escape
but in the above example it would be a relatively easy task for
a human to avoid the move Bxa7. How do programs handle this position?



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