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Subject: Difficult Position

Author: Tim OConnor

Date: 21:51:59 08/21/99


The following position is difficult for me to understand.

r1b2rk1/1pbpnp1p/2n1p1p1/8/2B1P3/2P5/PP2QPPP/R4RK1

Hiarcs 7.32 gives it +0.88 after several minutes and recommends 16... f5.

Kasparov says "With my limited knowledge of the game I would consider 3
minor pieces in such position much better than Queen+pawn and to the best
of my understanding after 16...d5 (instead of 16...f5) White would have been
reduced to fight for uneasy draw, but I guess Ponomariov used a computer
to evaluate this position more precisely."

When I play Hiarcs against itself from this position it did much better with
white in long time controls but scored equally well with either color using a
shorter amount of time.

Does anyone have information as to whether other engines evaluate this
position as favorable to white?



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