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Subject: Re: What is the winning line??

Author: Côme

Date: 23:11:09 02/01/00

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On February 01, 2000 at 19:47:37, Pete R. wrote:

>On February 01, 2000 at 11:43:54, Côme wrote:
>
>>
>>In this position :
>>[D]r2qkb1r/pp1n1ppp/4n3/1B6/Q7/2N2P2/PP3P1P/R1B1K2R w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>After 8 min on my K6 II 350  Crafty 17.07 don't find Bg5!!
>>
>>Junior and Fritz find Bg5!! very quickly.
>
>Not really, at least not Fritz.  Fritz 5.32 "finds" Bg5 immediately, but then
>discards it until reaching depth 12/37 where it switches back to it.  At 14 ply
>it is still on Bg5, but only gives it 0.38 eval.  In other words it is decidedly
>unimpressed.  IMO these sorts of posts should ALWAYS be accompanied with the
>winning line.  This avoids having to ask things like "What is the winning line
>here after 1. Bg5 Nec5?".  Hiarcs 7.32 is similarly unimpressed, so let's not
>bash Crafty just yet.  For laughs I will run Fritz 5.32 and Crafty 17.7
>overnight on this position on identical hardware (PII 400 128MB) and see what
>they say in the morning.  My bet right now is that Bg5 does not merit even a
>single !. :)

Hello,
Bg5,Nec5,Bxd8,Nxa4,Bxa4,Rxd8,0-0-0 1-0
Best Regards
Alexandre Côme



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