Author: Melvin S. Schwartz
Date: 12:42:49 07/05/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 16:34:09, Terry Ripple wrote: >Hi Mel. > I checked out this Bishop`s opening you said was so terribly played by >Hiarcs7.32! I`am assuming that you are playing from the black side of this >opening because Hiarcs don`t play on move 4.Nc3 but plays d4 from it`s >Tournament Book instead. The opening goes as this: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nxe4 >4.Nc3 Nxc3 5.dxc3 f6 6.Nh4 g6 7.f4 c6 8.f5 d5 and now you say that Black is >Clearly Better? You claim that Hiarcs7.32 misplayed this Opening from the white >side! Here is the continuation that Hiarcs likes from the white point of view. >9.fxg6 dxc4 10.Qh5 kd7 11.g7! Bxg7(=-.24) 12.Qg4+ kd6 13.Qxg7 Qf8(=.20)--- > This don`t look so terribly bad for white or is it that i`am missing the >point! Hello Terry, I apologize for taking so long to reply. I hope you will see this. The line you posted is not what followed. Here is the continuation: 9.fxg6...Bg7 10.Bd3...e4 11.Be2...Qb6 12.Bh5...Kd8 13. And now something very interesting: Hiarcs played 13.a4 and initially had a plus score but while waiting for my move, it's score kept going down until it went to a minus score! I was curious about this and felt a desire to let Hiarcs replay the move. When it replayed the move, it played Rf1. I then let it replay the move again, and again it played Rf1. Therefore, it would be reasonable to assume that a4 was a bad move which I would certainly agree with. Now, as for the position, how does it look to you with my strong passed pawn on the e-file? How does Hiarcs position look to you know? By the way, you can check the evaluation of this position on Fritz 5.32 and I believe Fritz states that Black (me) is around a half-pawn better. Also, I have found that Hiarcs evaluation score tends to be somewhat inflated in its favor at times and will decrease with no real change in the position except for the possibility it is seeing deeper into the position. I have compared Rebel 10 - a known good evaluator of the positional score (just check out the review of Hiarcs 7 by Larry Kaufman) . Therefore, don't just go by what Hiarcs scores, look at the position and while I am not claiming a clear advantage, I do believe I have a slight advantage with a powerful passed pawn on the e-file. Only time will tell if I can convert this into a win. However, the fact remains that I do have a powerful passed pawn and Hiarcs is in trouble - go back to that a4 thing. By the way, I let Hiarcs change its move to Rf1 - I believe the positional learning feature is what caused the move change. Clearly Rf1 is better than a4, don't you agree? Mel > >Best Regards, >Terry
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