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Subject: Re: GM Scherbakov - Rebel Century 1-0

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 03:06:45 01/09/00

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On January 08, 2000 at 19:46:09, stuart taylor wrote:

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>That's terrible! But maybe other programs would not put themselves in such
>mess. Tiger atleast has -4.Maybe he understands.

The evaluations I posted are from the point of view of white, so the -0.04 of
Tiger means that black is better by 4/100 of a pawn.

Other programs may or may not play 21... e5, but if they don't is for the wrong
reasons. What makes e5 a blunder is that it blocks the bishop on g6, and the
evals I posted show that none of these programs realize what this means.

>It wouldn't be -300 as
>the bishop can still be activated by losing a pawn-  P-f5!-the only way.

Right. But no program would give up a pawn without seeing a reason, and they
don't. Besides, it might mean losing the bishop pair... :(

>But in one of these follow ups, even tiger is not too clever-taking longest
>to find K-g3. What a shame! so this year we still don't have the ideal
>program. S. Taylor

The ideal program solves the game of chess, and no, no program is ideal. But
Tiger finds Kg3, while others don't.

Enrique

>>Fritz 6      +0.13
>>Nimzo 7.32   +0.39
>>Tiger        -0.04
>>Shredder 4   +0.06
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>>So none of them understands what is going on. They still have a long, long way
>>to go.
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>>Enrique



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