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Subject: Re: Rook Sacrifice and a deadly fail low

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:51:44 03/07/04

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On March 07, 2004 at 05:49:21, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On March 06, 2004 at 20:02:13, GeoffW wrote:
>
>>Hi Dan
>>
>>Thanks for the extensive analysis, that was a lot of output so I summarised the
>>times to avoid the obvious Bishop takes rook
>>
>>
>>Amy-net-087............00:16
>>Aristarch 4.41.........00:02
>>DeepSjeng..............00:04
>>Delfi-440..............00:13
>>Dragon_45..............01:23
>>ELChinito 3.25.........00:06
>>Glc300.................00:05
>>Gothmog................01:31
>>Kke-253................00:08
>>Ktulu..................00:23
>>List512................00:04
>>Patzer 3.61.......... >00:35 not resolved
>>Quark-232-net..........00:53
>>Ruffian_202............00:03
>>Ruffian_210........... 00:04
>>Smarthink-017a.........00:10
>>Yace...................01:06
>>Shredder 7.04..........00:03
>>
>>
>>This is seemingly a good test position to separate the elite programs from the
>>merely good ones, the real top programs can see and resolve this threat in less
>>than 5 seconds.
>
>Hmm, I did not know frenzee was that close to being a top program (6 secs, 2GHz
>XP):
>
>9	-87	48	     281521	1...Bxf6 2.exf6 g6 3.hxg6 hxg6 4.Nf3 Qc6 5.Qh4 Nd7
>10	-53	120	     841265	1...Bxf6 2.gxf6 g6 3.Qf4 Nd7 4.hxg6 hxg6 5.Nxg6 fxg6
>6.Rxg6+ Kf7 7.Rg7+ Kf8
>11	208	413	    3344477	1...Bxf6 2.gxf6 Ng6 3.Nxg6 hxg6 4.hxg6 Ba6
>11	208	593	    5035293	1...b4
>11	-30	1545	   12786338	1...b4 2.axb4 Bxf6 3.gxf6 g6 4.hxg6 Nxg6 5.bxa5 Rxa5
>6.Nxg6 hxg6 7.Qf4
>12	-6	2638	   21941960	1...b4 2.axb4 axb4 3.cxb4 Bxf6 4.gxf6 g6 5.Qf4 Nd7 6.hxg6
>hxg6 7.Nxg6 fxg6
>
>-S.

I suggest that you try movei.
I guess it is even faster on your hardware in finding b4 but I do not consider
it to be a top program.

You cannot find top programs based on one position and b4 is probably not the
best move based on long analysis.

Uri



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