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Subject: Re: Interesting sacrifice from correspondence game

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:19:03 03/02/00

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On March 02, 2000 at 19:12:55, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 02, 2000 at 10:11:50, Shep wrote:
>
>>Critical position:
>>[D]r1b2rk1/1pq2pbp/p2pp1p1/4n3/2P1PBn1/2N5/PPBNQPPP/R2R2K1 b - - 0 14; bm Nxf2;
>>id Shep 2000.01
>>
>>14...Nxf2!!
>>
>>The results from the programs I tested (PIII-550):
>>
>>Junior 6.0:       0:55, +0,35
>>Deep Junior 6.0a: 0:59, +0,32
>>Nimzo 7.32:       6:00, +0,40
>>Hiarcs 7.32:      8:19, +0,06
>>Fritz 6.0a:     >10:00
>>
>>---
>>Shep
>
>Keep in mind this is on my slow 90mhz machine, but I could not get Crafty to
>find Nxf2 in analyze mode, so I fed it the move and annotated the game (cut
>short at 14. ...Nxf2) and also below is the game log.

On that machine, Crafty will probably take about 30 minutes to find Nxf2.  At
least 15 minutes, anyway.  I saw that you only searched it for one minute - of
course this will not be long enough.  Even on the PIII-550, J6 barely found it
in under a minute.



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