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Subject: Re: Interesting position

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 09:05:10 03/27/00

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On March 27, 2000 at 07:41:33, Josh Strayhorn wrote:

>[D]2k4r/1pp2p2/p2q2p1/Q2Pbp1p/6b1/2NB3P/PPP2PP1/4R2K w - - 0 0
>
>How long does it take your program to find Nb5 here?
>
>I imagine that most programs would probably prefer other moves initially, for
>instance f3.
>
>By the way, the proper continuation is 1. Nb5!! Qf6 2. Rxe5! Qxe5 3. d6!

Well, it's not really following your continued moves, but Little Goliath starts
kicking around Nb5 at a depth of 9.  I tried the position with Amy, but it
wasn't finding it in a reasonable amount of time, someone else might have gotten
Amy to do it on a faster machine.

Pete

14550 >first : analyze
15600 <first : 6 177 99 74278 h3g4 h5g4 h1g1 e5c3 b2c3
15760 <first : 6 146 99 88358 h3g4 h5g4 h1g1 e5c3 b2c3
16040 <first : 6 98 119 115602 h3g4 h5g4 h1g1 e5d4 c3a4 d6h2 g1f1 h2h1 f1e2 h8e8
e2d1 e8e1 a5e1 h1g2
16590 <first : 6 111 187 163142 h1g1
17130 <first : 6 191 218 203414 h1g1 e5h2 g1f1 g4h3 g2h3 h2f4 f1g1 f4d2
18780 <first : 7 191 420 350500 h1g1 e5h2 g1f1 g4h3 g2h3 h2f4 f1g1 f4d2
19330 <first : 7 161 469 398408 h1g1 e5h2 g1f1 g4h3 g2h3 h2f4 f1g1 f4d2
19720 <first : 7 162 499 430222 h1g1 e5d4 a5a4 d4c3 b2c3 b7b5 a4d4
24440 <first : 7 170 979 845144 f2f3 g4f3 g2f3 h8d8 d3c4 e5g3
27570 <first : 8 170 1295 1166920 f2f3 g4f3 g2f3 h8d8 d3c4 e5g3
36300 <first : 8 152 2148 1910274 f2f3 g4f3 g2f3 h8d8 b2b3 e5c3 a5c3 d6g3 d3c4
g3h3 h1g1
56410 <first : 8 163 4140 3782686 c3b5
66180 <first : 8 278 5150 4632232 c3b5 d6d8 e1e5 f7f6 b5a7 c8b8 e5e6
69700 <first : 9 278 5509 5035960 c3b5 d6d8 e1e5 f7f6 b5a7 c8b8 e5e6
82550 <first : 9 308 6783 5992684 c3b5 d6d8 e1e5 f7f6 b5a7 c8b8 e5e6
111880 <first : 9 364 9706 8483270 c3b5 d6d7 e1e5 f7f6 e5e6 g4h3 b5a7 c8b8
122590 <first : 10 364 10801 9803146 c3b5 d6d7 e1e5 f7f6 e5e6 g4h3 b5a7 c8b8
265450 <first : 10 394 25075 21812860 c3b5 d6d7 e1e5 f7f6 e5e6 g4h3 b5a7 c8b8
352890 >first : exit
353110 >first : force
355310 >first : quit



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