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Subject: Re: How long does your program take to avoid Qxc2

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:20:47 03/31/00

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On March 31, 2000 at 17:09:02, John Stanback wrote:

>On March 31, 2000 at 16:23:24, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>This position came up in my tourney.
>>Nimzo to play played Qxc2?? and resigned 5 moves later.
>>How long does your program take to avoid taking the pawn?.
>>
>>MCP 8 is in book with 15. either Bc1 or Qc1 since Qc1 leads to
>>black thinking it is winning seems the best move. This Qc1 should
>>be in every book as the best move in this variation.
>>
>>[D]r3kb1r/2q2ppp/p2p4/1p1PpP2/8/4Q3/PPP1N1PP/R4RK1 b kq - 0 17
>>
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>On a P2-300 Zarkov sees the score for Qxc2 drop after about 12
>seconds, but the search goes bananas and it takes over 2 minutes
>to find Be7.
>
>00:01.0    37760  6>    99  Qxc2 b4 Be7 a3 O-O
>00:01.1    42240  6     73  Qxc2 b4 Be7 Nc3 Qb2 Rab1 Qc2
>00:01.2    43777  7>    73  Qxc2 b4 Be7 Nc3 Qb2 Rab1 Qc2
>00:02.5    87808  7     71  Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Rc2 Qa3 Qc8+ Rd8
>00:03.3   117346  8>    71  Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Rc2 Qa3 Qc8+ Rd8
>00:09.6   352768  8     70  Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 Rc2 Qa3
>00:10.7   388114  9>    70  Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 Rc2 Qa3
>00:12.3   451072  9     12  Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 Rc2 Qa3
>00:18.0   647680  9      0  Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 f6+ gxf6
>02:08.8  4139264  9      6  Be7 c3 Qc4 Qf3 O-O <HT>
>05:44.6 11025969 10>     6  Be7 c3 Qc4 Qf3 O-O <HT>
>
>John

Which version of Zarkov.
I get 2 min 4 secs and it plays Qc5 on Zarkov 5 on cel 433.

Following is F6a
MCP 8 - Nimzo 7.32
r3kb1r/2q2ppp/p2p4/1p1PpP2/8/4Q3/PPP1N1PP/R4RK1 b kq - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 6:
17...Qxc2 18.b4 Be7 19.Nc3 0-0 20.Rac1 Qb2 21.Qe4 Rac8
  ³  (-0.38)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:01  377kN
17...Qxc2 18.b4 Be7 19.Nc3 0-0 20.Rf2 Bg5 21.Qg3 Bd2 22.f6
  =  (-0.25)   Depth: 10/26   00:00:03  733kN
17...Qxc2 18.Rac1 Qxb2 19.Qb6 Rd8 20.Qc6+ Ke7 21.f6+ gxf6
  =  (-0.13)   Depth: 11/27   00:00:11  2799kN
17...Qxc2 18.Rac1 Qxb2 19.Qb6 Rd8 20.Qc6+ Ke7 21.f6+ gxf6 22.Ng3
  =  (-0.13)   Depth: 12/30   00:00:39  9760kN
17...Qxc2 18.Rac1 Qxb2 19.Qb6 Rd8 20.Qc6+ Ke7 21.f6+ gxf6 22.Ng3
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 13/31   00:01:40  24728kN
17...Be7
  =  (0.12)   Depth: 13/32   00:02:10  32862kN

(Bird, Scarb 31.03.2000)

Thanks




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