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Subject: Re: Easy & Hard

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:10:05 07/25/02

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On July 26, 2002 at 00:54:10, Slater Wold wrote:

>[D]8/pR4pk/1b2p3/2p3p1/N1p5/7P/PP1r2P1/6K1 b - - 0 31
>
>The only move to make here is Rxb2.  The win is only about 10 moves away, and
>while some programs I tested find Rxb2, none have an impressive score.  And
>that's *if* they find it.
>
>
>[D]8/pR4pk/1b5p/2p5/N1p2P2/6P1/PP1r2P1/6K1 b - - 0 29
>
>Same position.  Only slightly deeper.  No program I tested can find Rxb2.

old crafty can see it in less than 1 second but forgets it later.
I guess that finding Rxb2 is an evaluation question and I suspect
that some programs can find it.

Black gets Queen for rook knight and pawn and it is not clear if it is a good
deal.

Analysis by Crafty 18.07:

1...Rd1+ 2.Kf2
  ±  (0.91)   Depth: 1/8   00:00:00
1...Rd3
  ²  (0.68)   Depth: 1/8   00:00:00
1...Rd3 2.Kf2
  ±  (0.91)   Depth: 2/8   00:00:00
1...Rd1+ 2.Kh2 Rd6
  ±  (0.81)   Depth: 2/8   00:00:00
1...Kg6 2.Nxb6 axb6 3.Rxb6+
  ±  (0.74)   Depth: 2/8   00:00:00
1...Kg6 2.Nxb6 axb6 3.Rxb6+
  ±  (0.74)   Depth: 3/8   00:00:00
1...Rd6 2.Re7 Rd2
  ±  (0.73)   Depth: 3/8   00:00:00
1...Rd6 2.Kf2 Rd2+ 3.Kf3 Rd3+ 4.Kg4
  ±  (0.98)   Depth: 4/9   00:00:00
1...Kg6 2.Kh2 Kf6 3.Nxb6 axb6 4.Rxb6+
  ±  (0.79)   Depth: 4/9   00:00:00
1...h5 2.Kh2 c3 3.bxc3 Rxa2 4.Nxb6 axb6 5.Rxb6
  ²  (0.69)   Depth: 4/9   00:00:00
1...h5 2.Kh2 Rd6 3.Re7 Rd2
  ²  (0.51)   Depth: 5/12   00:00:00
1...h5 2.a3 Rd1+ 3.Kf2 Rd2+ 4.Kf1 Rd1+ 5.Ke2 Rd6
  ²  (0.65)   Depth: 6/13   00:00:00  26kN
1...Rxb2
  =  (0.25)   Depth: 6/13   00:00:00  36kN
1...Rxb2 2.Nxb2 c3 3.Rxb6 axb6 4.Nd3
  =  (0.18)   Depth: 6/13   00:00:00  39kN
1...Rxb2 2.Nxb2 c3 3.Nd3 c4+ 4.Rxb6 axb6 5.Ne5
  ²  (0.26)   Depth: 7/14   00:00:00  45kN
1...Rxb2 2.Nxb2 c3 3.Nd3 c4+ 4.Rxb6 axb6 5.Ne5
  =  (-0.14)   Depth: 8/15   00:00:00  85kN
1...Rxb2 2.Nxb2 c3 3.Nd3 c4+ 4.Rxb6 axb6 5.Nb4 Kg6
  ³  (-0.35)   Depth: 8/15   00:00:00  110kN
1...Rxb2 2.Nxb2 c3 3.Rxb6 axb6 4.Nd3 c4 5.Nb4 Kg6
  ³  (-0.35)   Depth: 9/19   00:00:01  170kN
1...Rxb2 2.Nxb2 c3 3.Rxb6 axb6 4.Nd3 c2 5.Kf2 Kg6 6.Nc1 c4
  =  (0.22)   Depth: 10/20   00:00:01  262kN
1...c3 2.bxc3 Rxa2 3.Nxb6 axb6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 10/20   00:00:02  500kN
1...c3 2.bxc3 Rxa2 3.Nxb6 axb6 4.f5 Ra1+ 5.Kf2 Ra2+ 6.Kf3 Rc2 7.Rxb6 Rxc3+ 8.Kf4
  =  (0.04)   Depth: 11/22   00:00:02  764kN
1...c3 2.bxc3 Rxa2 3.Nxb6 axb6 4.f5 Ra1+ 5.Kh2 Rf1 6.g4 Rf4 7.Rxb6 Rxg4
  =  (0.23)   Depth: 12/23   00:00:04  1481kN
1...c3 2.bxc3 Rxa2 3.Nxb6 axb6 4.f5 Kg8 5.Rxb6 Ra3 6.Rb8+ Kh7 7.Rb7 Rxc3 8.Kf2
  =  (0.04)   Depth: 13/25   00:00:09  3891kN
1...c3 2.bxc3 Rxa2 3.Nxb6 axb6 4.f5 Ra1+ 5.Kf2 Kg8 6.Rxb6 Ra3 7.c4 Rc3 8.Rb7
Rxc4
  ²  (0.30)   Depth: 14/30   00:00:16  7144kN
1...c3 2.bxc3 Rxa2 3.Nxb6 axb6 4.f5 Ra1+ 5.Kh2 Rf1 6.g4 c4 7.Rc7 b5 8.Re7 Rc1
9.Re3
  =  (0.22)   Depth: 15/34   00:00:54  24806kN

(blass, tel-aviv 26.07.2002)

Uri



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