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Subject: Re: Difficult Position

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:33:05 08/22/99

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On August 22, 1999 at 00:51:59, Tim OConnor wrote:


Hello Tim,


>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.
>

Is this +0.88 for Black or for White?

>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?

I let my program search for 10 minutes or so and it liked ...d5 from depth
3 onwards. It scores this as about +1.2 for White.

Andrew




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