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Vincent Diepeveen · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 1738 Location: The Netherlands

Steve, as a chessplayer i feel it's a great position.

However a small sidenote. With todays huge search depths you typically see that modern programs bust all sorts of positions. Is it relevant how fast someone wins?

So does it matter whether you win a position or does it matter that you win in the fastest possible time?

Todays software focuses upon searching something that is 'sufficient' deep enough. It seems to win game after game.

That's where this position also has a problem. If you do NOT play Be6 with the nice knight sacrafice after which there is a bunch of zugzwangs, then you still win this position with white of course, as 3 pieces is better than a queen and not a little. You got the luxury of 2 bishops here.

So in that sense for the modern software this position is not so relevant.