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Subject: Re: Trapper Ant

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:46:56 05/18/03

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On May 18, 2003 at 12:31:00, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>
>In round 1 Ant had tried an interesting trap against theKing:
>Ant had played Nc4 !? and the position was
>
>[D]r4rk1/p4p1p/2p2npQ/q7/1pnPPN2/1P3P1B/PK5P/3R2R1 w - - 0 21
>
>TheKing refused to accept the sac, played 21. Ka1 and could easily win.
>It seems that accepting the sac will in fact loose, for instance
>
>21. bxc4 Qa3+ 22. Ka1 Qc3+ 23. Kb1 b3
>
>At least on slow hardware (K6-433), my engine needs quite a while to realize
>that accepting the sac is not good. During the 1st minutes it sticks to bxc4
>even though the scores starts sinking.
>
>How about other engines ?
>
>Uli

Crafty gets off the capture very quickly.


                9     0.79   0.28   1. bxc4 Qa3+ 2. Kb1 b3 3. Rg2 bxa2+
                                    4. Ka1 Qxf3 5. Rd3 Qf1+ 6. Kxa2 Nxe4
                9     2.58   0.61   1. Ka1 Qa3 2. Rb1 Na5 3. Nxg6 hxg6
                                    4. Rxg6+ fxg6 5. Be6+ Rf7 6. Qxg6+
                                    Kh8 7. Qxf7 Nh7
                9->   2.71   0.61   1. Ka1 Qa3 2. Rb1 Na5 3. Nxg6 hxg6
                                    4. Rxg6+ fxg6 5. Be6+ Rf7 6. Qxg6+
                                    Kh8 7. Qxf7 Nh7
               10     7.59     ++   1. Ka1!!
               10    14.43   1.26   1. Ka1 Rae8 2. bxc4 b3 3. Rg2 Qc3+
                                    4. Rb2 Qxf3 5. Rf1 Qxe4 6. Ne2 Ng4
                                    7. Bxg4 Qxg4
               10->  15.15   1.26   1. Ka1 Rae8 2. bxc4 b3 3. Rg2 Qc3+
                                    4. Rb2 Qxf3 5. Rf1 Qxe4 6. Ne2 Ng4
                                    7. Bxg4 Qxg4
               11    38.28   1.18   1. Ka1 Qa3 2. Rg2 Rae8 3. Be6 Rxe6
                                    4. Nxe6 fxe6 5. Rdg1 Kf7 6. e5 Nxe5
                                    7. dxe5
               11->  40.44   1.18   1. Ka1 Qa3 2. Rg2 Rae8 3. Be6 Rxe6
                                    4. Nxe6 fxe6 5. Rdg1 Kf7 6. e5 Nxe5
                                    7. dxe5




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