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Subject: Re: morphy's 17.QxB sac

Author: walter irvin

Date: 17:44:22 07/12/00

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On July 12, 2000 at 20:30:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 12, 2000 at 20:01:15, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2000 at 19:39:37, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>i was testing several programs in paulsen vs morphy  where morphy made the great
>>>sac 17.  QxB .i tested several programs ,hiarcs 7.32 1 min 23 sec was the best
>>>.crafty 16.6 did it in 3 min 50 sec ,strangly crafty 17.10 never found it in 10
>>>mins .junior 6 never found it in 18 mins!!fritz6 never found it in 3 min .all
>>>this was on a 300 mhz 64 meg hash .in the actual game morphy used 20 min .
>>
>>Can you post the position?
>
>The game:
>
>[Event "?"]
>[Site "New York USA-ch 4th match"]
>[Date "1857.??.??"]
>[Round "6"]
>[White "Paulsen, L"]
>[Black "Morphy, P"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "C48"]
>[Opening "Four knights"]
>[Variation "Spanish, classical defence"]
>
>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bc5 5.O-O O-O 6.Nxe5 Re8 7.Nxc6 dxc6 8.Bc4 b5
>9.Be2 Nxe4 10.Nxe4 Rxe4 11.Bf3 Re6 12.c3 Qd3 13.b4 Bb6 14.a4 bxa4 15.Qxa4 Bd7
>16.Ra2 Rae8 17.Qa6 Qxf3 18.gxf3 Rg6+ 19.Kh1 Bh3 20.Rd1 Bg2+ 21.Kg1 Bxf3+ 22.Kf1
>Bg2+ 23.Kg1 Bh3+ 24.Kh1 Bxf2 25.Qf1 Bxf1 26.Rxf1 Re2 27.Ra1 Rh6 28.d4 Be3 0-1
>
>The position before:
>
>[D] 4r1k1/p1pb1ppp/Qbp1r3/8/1P6/2Pq1B2/R2P1PPP/2B2RK1 b - - acd 10; acn 4632692;
>acs 31; ce 42; pv Qf5 d4 Rg6 Be2 Be6 Ra1 Bd5 f3 f6;
>
>The position after:
>[D] 4r1k1/p1pb1ppp/Qbp1r3/8/1P6/2P2q2/R2P1PPP/2B2RK1 w - - acd 12; acn 5253495;
>acs 31; ce -82; pv gxf3 Rg6+ Kh1 Bh3 Qd3 f5 Qc4+ Kf8 Qh4 Bxf1 h3 Bxh3 Kh2 Rh6
>Qg3;
>
>This position can be used to determine if a computer uses NULL move pruning or
>not.  I am fairly sure that is what is going on here.  Once you make the move,
>Crafty quickly sees that it is better than its previous choice.
there must be a big diff between crafty 16.6 and 17.10 .16.6 solved it in
3,17.10 greater than 10 min



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