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Subject: Re: Test position:Colle-O´Hanlon;Nice,1930 [13...Kg6 or 13...Kg8]

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:53:24 03/14/00

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On March 13, 2000 at 20:50:35, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 13, 2000 at 19:57:06, Pete Galati wrote:
>[snip]
>>[D]r1bqr3/pp1n1ppk/3bp3/6N1/3p4/2P5/PP3PPP/R1BQR1K1 b - -
>
>This is actually a *very* interesting test position.
>
>Kg8 seems to score very well initially, but rapidly drops in value.
>By ply 11, Kg6 goes nuts with a fail high.
>
>I wonder if any programs can see Kg6 before ply 11 because of extensions or
>whatever.
>
>Indeed, a clever test position.

CM7000 finds Kg6 at depth 3/8 (just under 7.5 million positions) after 3:07 on a
PII-400, with an eval of -1.15 for Black. The eval only changes slightly when it
switches from Kg8, which was -1.04.

The line is:

1...Kg6 2.Re4 Qa5 3.Rg4 Bf8 4.b4 Qb5 5.Nxe6+ Kh7 6.Nxf8+ Nxf8 7.Rxd4

I let it think up to the next level (4/9), which it reached at 13:04 (32.2
million positions), and the eval was -1.14. The updated line is:

1...Kg6 2.Re4 Qa5 3.Rg4 Bf8 4.Qd3+ f5 5.Nxe6+ Kf6 6.b4 Qa6

jm




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