MikeB wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:24 am
It has 'gotten' boring ....hopefully it picks up...
Hopefully not. What do you want, black sacrificing its queen? The variation is there but white loses, so I'd be crazy if I allowed Harvey to play it.
There's a ton of possible fun variations and material imbalances that could happen, but all of them are either red flags (black has a move that makes the tree of variations and branching factor explode, so I can't even check other black alternatives) or white loses, so my job is to keep things "boring." Harvey's job would be to make things unclear, because it's white's job to clarify them, while black only needs a line up to a big advantage.
The game is about being able to tell the drawn positions from the losing positions apart and avoid the latter ones. So far losing positions behave clearly differently, so Harvey needs to make me play into a lost position that behaves like drawn ones.
I want to thank Harvey for being a good sport. His move ordering and conditionals have been saving me a lot of time (for instance, all the analysis of 14...Re8 and 14...Rc8 that didn't need to be expanded after knowing he'll play 14...Qd7.)
Ovyron wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:44 pm
I want to thank Harvey for being a good sport. His move ordering and conditionals have been saving me a lot of time (for instance, all the analysis of 14...Re8 and 14...Rc8 that didn't need to be expanded after knowing he'll play 14...Qd7.)
[d]r2q1rk1/pp3ppp/2n3n1/2b3P1/3p2b1/P4N2/1P1BPPBP/2RQ1RK1 w - -
My turn again.
OK, I can now safely say that Stockfish-dev had 11...Be7, rather than 11...Bd6. But of course, they both lead to the same place with Bxc5. So we're back to the same PV that Stockfish had after 2. g5, which it has kept essentially unchanged through more than a thousand search iterations since then.