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Subject: Re: Calling Steve Lopez, Terry Cummings, & Other Hiarcs Owners

Author: Steve Lopez

Date: 15:37:35 07/02/99

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On July 02, 1999 at 18:23:41, Steve Lopez wrote:

>On July 02, 1999 at 18:03:08, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>This is the Sicilian that Hiarcs 7.32 plays on my program. I re-installed the
>>program and it still plays this line that both of you say is not possible. I
>>suggest you open the tree, make the board small so you see the info, and check
>>it out!
>>
>>White: Schwartz
>>
>>Black: Hiarcs 7.32
>>
>>1.e4...c5  2.Nf3...e6  3.d4...cxd4  4.Nxd4...Nf6  5.Nc3...Nc6  6.Nxc6...bxc6
>>7.e5...Nd5  8.Ne4...f5 (here Hiarcs first choice is Qc7 which it should play;
>>however, f5 is listed as the other choice here. IMHO f5 should not be played at
>>all). 9.Nd6+
>>...Bxd6 (and here the info screen says Bxd6 no highlighted in red)
>

My apologies to all. If you *manually* make the move 9.Nxd6+ (a non-book move),
it *transposes* into another book line. Following that line of play out to the
end of book (14...0-0), we get to a position that's come up twice in my master
database: Byrne-Day, Buenos Aires ol, 1978 (1-0) and Sandor-Szelenyi,
Balatonalm, 1996 (0-1).

I'll leave it to stronger players than myself to debate the relative merits of
this position, but various chess engines I've examined this with give the
position as equal or as a slight edge to White.

Crow -- ummmm-ummmmm! Good eatin'!

-- Steve Lopez



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