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Subject: Re: Nice attack

Author: John Stanback

Date: 12:45:45 03/09/99

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On March 09, 1999 at 02:55:58, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Today Hossa lost a game in the following position because he didn't take care
>enough of his king:
>
>4r1k1/1Bpq1ppp/1bNp4/P3p3/3PPnb1/2P5/2Q2PPP/4RRK1 b
>
>Hossa had white against "blunite" and the last move was a5? Black won with Bf3!!
>How long does your program take to see that Bf3!! is winning (or does it find an
>even better move?)? Here is the analysis of Hossa:
>
>depth  value    time    nodes pv
>    1   -890    0.02       21 1... d7xc6 2.b7xc6
>    1   -441    0.04       99 1... f4xg2 2.g1xg2
>    2   -441    0.06      650 1... f4xg2 2.g1xg2
>!   3   -310    0.10     1769 1... f4xg2 2.g1xg2 g4h3 3.g2g1 h3xf1 4.e1xf1
>    4   -337    0.60    27560 1... e5xd4 2.c3xd4 f4xg2 3.g1xg2 g4h3 4.g2g1 h3xf1
>                              5.e1xf1
>    5   -333    0.80    37229 1... e5xd4 2.c3xd4 f4xg2 3.g1xg2 g4h3 4.g2h1 h3xf1
>                              5.e1xf1
>    6   -370    2.33   125529 1... e5xd4 2.c3xd4 f4xg2 3.e1c1 b6xd4 4.g1xg2
>    6   -326    8.53   483797 1... f4xg2 2.e1b1 g2f4 3.f1e1 f4e2 4.e1xe2 g4xe2
>                              5.c2xe2
>    7   -347   12.55   706240 1... f4xg2 2.e1b1 g2f4 3.f1e1 f4h3 4.g1f1 e5xd4
>                              5.a5xb6
>!   7   -120   48.09  2540272 1... g4f3 2.h4 f3xg2 3.a5xb6 c7xb6 4.c6xe5 d6xe5
>    8    -97    1:00  3240537 1... g4f3 2.b7c8 d7xc6 3.d5 f3xe4 4.e1xe4 f4xd5
>                              5.a5xb6 e8xc8
>!   9     80    7:17 24749284 1... g4f3 2.h3 f3xg2 3.a5xb6 g2xf1 4.e1xf1 c7xb6
>                              5.d4xe5 d7xb7
>!  10    171   20:04 66462256 1... g4f3 2.h3 f3xg2 3.e1e3 g2xf1 4.g1xf1 b6xa5
>                              5.f1g1 a5b6
>
>BTW: the blitz game ended with
>
> 24.      a5     Bf3
> 25.    dxe5     Qg4
> 26.    Ne7+    Rxe7
> 27.    axb6   Qxg2#
>
>
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.

Zarkov takes less than a second to choose Bf3, but over 17 seconds
to get a positive score.  Here the output, P2-300:

00:01.0    35200  4>  -272  Bf3 gxf3 Qh3 axb6 Qg2+
00:01.4    46208  4   -187  Bf3 h4 Bxg2 axb6 Bxf1 Kxf1 cxb6
00:01.4    46776  5>  -187  Bf3 h4 Bxg2 axb6 Bxf1 Kxf1 cxb6
00:03.6   120587  5   -114  Bf3 h4 Bxg2 axb6 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qg4+ Kh2 exd4 bxc7
00:03.6   120700  5   -115  Bf3 h4 Bxg2 axb6 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qg4+ Kh2 exd4 bxc7
00:03.6   121136  5   -205  Bf3 h4 Bxg2 axb6 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qg4+ Kh2 exd4 bxc7
00:07.2   237759  5    -24  Bf3 h4 Bxg2 axb6 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qg4+ Kh2 Qxh4+ Kg1
00:11.3   377600  5    -23  Bf3 Bc8 Rxc8 gxf3 Qh3 Ne7+ Kf8 Ng6+ hxg6 axb6
00:11.7   392757  6>   -23  Bf3 Bc8 Rxc8 gxf3 Qh3 Ne7+ Kf8 Ng6+ hxg6 axb6
00:17.6   594944  6      3  Bf3 h3 Bxg2 f3 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qxh3 axb6 Qg3+ Kh1 <HT>
00:18.2   626868  7>     3  Bf3 h3 Bxg2 f3 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qxh3 axb6 Qg3+ Kh1 <HT>
00:32.4  1094394  7     53  Bf3 h3 Bxg2 f3 Qxh3 axb6 Qg3 Qxg2 Nxg2
00:45.1  1494912  7    103  Bf3 h3 Bxg2 f3 Qxh3 axb6 Qg3 Ne7+ Rxe7
00:46.5  1565383  8>   103  Bf3 h3 Bxg2 f3 Qxh3 axb6 Qg3 Ne7+ Rxe7
01:41.2  3331734  8    165  Bf3 h3 Nxh3+ Kh2 Nf4 axb6 Bxg2 Kg1 Bxf1 Rxf1 Qg4+

John



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