Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:08:10 05/09/00
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On May 09, 2000 at 20:05:02, John Stanback wrote: >On May 09, 2000 at 10:34:20, Mark Andreoli wrote: >> I recently played a 5 minute blitz game against International Master Nenad >>Aleksic. see moves below: (I lost as I am black.) >> >> 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O >> >> 8.Bc4 Nc6 9. Bb3 Bd7 10.g4 Qa5 11.h4 Rfc8 12.h5 Ne5 13.hxg6 hxg6 >> >> 14.Bh6 Bh8 15.Qd2 b5 16.O-O-O Nc4 17.Bxc4 Rxc4 18.Nb3 Qc7 19.Bf8!! OK >> >> "gang" the parties over. All variations are FORCED and win rather quickly >> for white. The game continued 19. ... Rxf8 20.Rxh8+ Kxh8 21.Qh6+ Kg8 >> >> 22.Rh1 Nh5 22. gxh5 Rxc3 23.hxg6 1-0 >> >> My question is _why_ can't the above mentioned "engines" F5/F6/Hiarcs >>find the move 19. Bf8 (Nenad found it in only 20 seconds). The engines all want >>to play Bg5?? >> >> _which wins too_ in a __long endgame_ however I thought nothing could >>beat these chess computers when it came to tactics. >> Maybe I overlooked something? Maybe Junior,Rebel,CM 7000 or Chess Tiger >>can find this "simple but elegant tactical shot"! Could anyone help me out by >>checking the position after the 18th move. I would love to be corrected and/or >>enlightened. Thanks for any help in solving this _mystery_!? MJA :-( > >Zarkov takes 2:52 on a K6-550: > > >00:01.0 38784 5> 68 g5 b4 Ne2 Nh5 Nbd4 >00:01.1 39442 5 114 Bg5 b4 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Kg7 >00:01.4 63104 5 141 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6 >00:01.4 66204 6> 141 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6 >00:01.8 93184 6 141 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6 >00:02.1 114163 7> 141 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6 >00:03.7 235904 7 166 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Rc7 >00:05.0 345626 8> 166 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Rc7 >00:09.4 717824 8 193 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Be8 Nd5 >00:10.5 812957 9> 193 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Be8 Nd5 >00:21.5 1658880 9 177 Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 b4 Qxc7 Rxc7 Nd5 Rb7 >02:52.3 12780800 9 193 Bf8 Rxf8 Rxh8+ Kxh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rh1 Nh5 gxh5 Rxc3 >02:53.7 12904562 10> 193 Bf8 Rxf8 Rxh8+ Kxh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rh1 Nh5 gxh5 Rxc3 Another amazing result. Can you comment on how your program was able to find this by ply 9?
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