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Subject: Re: Republica Argentina Chess Masters (Shredder)

Author: Rick Hagen

Date: 05:32:32 07/25/05

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On July 25, 2005 at 03:34:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 24, 2005 at 21:10:22, Rick Hagen wrote:
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>>The "critical" position seems to be:
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>>[D]r1bq1rk1/2p1n1bn/1p1p4/pP1Pp1pp/P1B1Pp2/2NQ1P2/1BPN2PP/R3R1K1 w - - 0 21
>>
>>It actually looks Shredder plays with a plan here.
>>Bringing it's King to the Q-side, and counter-attacking on the K-side.
>
>Not to me
>

You deny it_looks_like a plan?

>The critical position is later in the game.
>It seems to me that black is better after shredder's plan.
>
>Here is Shredder's opinion
[...]

Yes, objectively...black is better.
But.. it is an open position, so if Shredder "knew" it was playing a human, it
would adjust its evaluation ;)

TBH, the opening (KI) is not an opening computers are good at.
With white -as in this game- it closes the q-side... no human would do that.
With black, it would not have the 'concept' of playing the standard breakthrough
plan with the ...,g4-g3 pawn-sacrifice, and controling the dark-squares. (Bh6,
Knights pressing at f4,g3, and evt. mating with the queen...)
A computer would have to calculate this, a human_knows_this.

If it would have played h3 instead of Kf2, it would have been a dead draw after
21...,h4_or_black would have a (low) risk-free attack. (Since the q-file is
locked up)

Therefore, Kf2 is a wonderful concept.(against a human anyway, but Shredder
didn't_know_that... did it?)
No human white player would have felt comfortable in this position for sure.
Well... I wouldn't anyway.

RickH


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