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Subject: Re: Position from Leiden, Round 10

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:38:21 10/30/02

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On October 30, 2002 at 16:13:36, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>Position from Shark - IsiChessMMX, Leiden Round 10
>
>[D] r4rk1/2n1b1pN/pqb1p1Qp/1p6/P1p3n1/N1P1B3/1PB2PPP/R2R2K1 b - - ; bm Rxf2
>
>Even if the position is already won by black, finding the spectacular 24...Rxf2
>seems quite difficult for some engines. Ruffian is clearly the fastest i tried
>so far on my 2.1XP+ :
>
>Ruffian 1.0.0    2 seconds
>Shredder5       14 seconds
>IsiChessMMX     47 seconds
>
>May be a bad testposition due to Nxe3 wins too.
>
>Cheers,
>Gerd

Chessmaster 9000, on a P4 2.66, finds it in 10 seconds:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-1.64	4222		1...Nxe3 2.a5 Be8 3.axb6 Bxg6 4.Bxg6
					Nxd1 5.Rxd1
0:00	1/4	-2.17	9807		1...Nxe3 2.a5 Qa7 3.fxe3 Qxe3+
					4.Kh1
0:00	1/5	-2.84	42249		1...Nxe3 2.a5 Qa7 3.fxe3 Qxe3+
					4.Kh1 Rf2
0:00	1/6	-3.09	108052		1...Nxe3 2.a5 Qa7 3.fxe3 Qxe3+
					4.Kh1 Rf2 5.Re1
0:01	1/7	-3.50	405078		1...Nxe3 2.a5 Qc5 3.Nxf8 Nxd1 4.Rxd1
					Kxf8 5.Be4 Rd8
0:04	1/8	-3.46	1019118		1...Nxe3 2.a5 Qc5 3.fxe3 Qxe3+
					4.Kh1 Rf2 5.Re1 Qf4 6.Rg1 Rd8
0:10	1/8	-7.83	2198545		1...Rxf2 2.Nf6+ Bxf6 3.Qh7+ Kf8
					4.Bxb6 Rxg2+ 5.Kf1 Nxh2+ 6.Ke1
					Bh4+ 7.Bf2 Rxf2 8.Rd6 Rf1+ 9.Ke2
					Bf3+ 10.Ke3 Rxa1 11.axb5 axb5
0:20	1/9	-7.83	4177700		1...Rxf2 2.Nf6+ Bxf6 3.Qh7+ Kf8
					4.Bxb6 Rxg2+ 5.Kf1 Nxh2+ 6.Ke1
					Bh4+ 7.Bf2 Rxf2 8.Rd6 Rf1+ 9.Ke2
					Bf3+ 10.Ke3 Rxa1 11.axb5 axb5
0:57	1/10	-8.83	11849564	1...Rxf2 2.Nf6+ Bxf6 3.Qh7+ Kf8
					4.Qh8+ Ke7 5.Qxg7+ Bxg7 6.Bxb6
					Rxg2+ 7.Kf1 Bf3 8.Bc5+ Kf6 9.Bg1
					Nxh2+ 10.Bxh2 Rxh2 11.Rd7 Rh1+
					12.Kf2 Rxa1 13.Kxf3
1:59	2/11	-8.87	25125009	1...Rxf2 2.Nf6+ Bxf6 3.Qh7+ Kf8
					4.Qh8+ Ke7 5.Qxg7+ Bxg7 6.Bxb6
					Rxg2+ 7.Kf1 Bf3 8.Bc5+ Kf6 9.Bg1
					Nd5 10.Re1 Nxh2+ 11.Bxh2 Rxh2 12.axb5
					axb5

jm



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