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

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 15:24:19 01/09/00

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On January 09, 2000 at 06:06:45, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>>It wouldn't be -300 as
>>the bishop can still be activated by losing a pawn-  P-f5!-the only way.
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>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... :(
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>>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
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>The ideal program solves the game of chess, and no, no program is ideal. But
>Tiger finds Kg3, while others don't.
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>Enrique
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Oh! I'm sorry!
  I thought all the programs found k-g3 but tiger took the longest.
By ideal program, I mean that its weakest points are not all that bad.
Almost like a bug. Thank you!
S.Taylor



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