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Subject: Re: Can your (amateur) prog solve this?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 22:45:40 02/17/99

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On February 18, 1999 at 00:58:18, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 18, 1999 at 00:50:41, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>
>>Here's a position that occurred between Amateur and Fortress on fics.  Amateur,
>>as white, played dxe5, which seems to lose.  It would be interesting to see if
>>any of the amateur programs out there will avoid playing dxe5.
>>
>>1r1qr1k1/1pp3p1/5p1p/p2ppb2/2nPnB2/PQP2NP1/2P1PPBP/3R1RK1 w - -
>Crafty was not too happy with the position.  Down a pawn after 3 minutes.  I
>suspect the previous move was pivotal.
>


Probably so.  My prog only figures out that dxe5 doesn't help matters because of
a4, etc, but later on thinks that Bc1 is better.  This position seems difficult
for me, but the commercial programs (+crafty) don't have much trouble.  That's
why I wanted to see what other amateur progs did.

Will



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