Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 08:52:03 12/02/05
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On December 02, 2005 at 05:32:24, Martin Giepmans wrote: >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 Yes Fischer did, thinking he could escape. BTW Fischer still had a draw after this capture, but blew it. This case is a bit different due to the Bishop Pair, and Rook on the D-File the best you can do is win the exchange. IOW the win is tricky after ..Bxa2?! Terry
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