Author: Howard Exner
Date: 04:45:31 10/08/99
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On October 08, 1999 at 05:58:59, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On October 07, 1999 at 15:23:22, Howard Exner wrote: > >>Two missed wins. > >Right. > >>Bb7+ would avoid the exchanges of pawns on the kingside. After the white pawns >>on the queenside will fall. Bb7 does not seem to be too difficult to find. >>Given more time than game/30 and perhaps Tiger would play it? > >It was not game/30 but 30'/60, which is a bit slower than game/60. > >>8/5p2/b7/P1k1Pp1p/5P2/2P2KPP/8/8 b - - id Hiarcs 7.32 PIII-50 - Tiger 12.0 >>PII-300/; bm Bb7; >> >>Nice move by Hiarcs. A little knowledge goes a long way. I guess Tiger >>was in the dark on this simple draw. It no doubt knows the single rook pawn draw >>with the wrong bishop but not the two pawn draw. Rebel too >>does not see this draw. >>8/2n4B/5k2/1pK4p/2pN4/6P1/7P/8 b - - id Tiger 12.0 PII-300/ - Hiarcs 7.32 >>PIII-50; bm h5h4; >> >>A win is there with g4 but the elementary knowledge of the doubled rook pawn >>draw is needed. Tiger played pxh4?? I bet a lot of programs make this blunder. >>8/2n4B/5k2/1pK5/2pN3p/6P1/7P/8 w - - id Tiger 12.0 PII-300/ - Hiarcs 7.32 >>PIII-50; bm g3g4; > >You are right. g4 wins and Kc6 would win too. Almost anything is better here >than gxh. But the move that bothered me the most is the very ugly 15.Bb1 in the >second game. Anyway, don't tell me it is not impressive that even running on a >slower machine Tiger 12 scored 62.5% in 20 games against the very strong H732 >and N732. Indeed. Thanks for the test games. It seems like it has been quite a long time since a new, strong commercial entry has been introduced by a new programmer. My recollection tells me that Junior was the last such entry. > >Enrique
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