Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 02:32:24 12/02/05
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On December 02, 2005 at 04:15:11, Terry McCracken wrote: >But I suspect not too hard for engines on fast hardware. > >This position is taken from a G/20 I played against Chessmaster 9000...it took >the a-pawn...I really need a fast computer!:( > >The up-side of course it gave me a winning position!:o) > >[D]3r2k1/p1p2p1p/p2b1p2/3b2p1/3P4/2B2PN1/PPP3PP/2KR4 b - - 0 1 > >Terry My engine never considers Bxa2 because it has code for trapped bishops in its eval. I guess that most engines have that. I added it when Spider was still very young, after a few games in which it made this (from a human viewpoint) rather silly mistake. Btw, Fisher also took the pawn in a similar situation in a game against Spasski in Iceland (the second of their 1972 match, iirc) but that was a bit more complicated and perhaps not so silly after all .. ;) Martin
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