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Subject: Re: Is CB Crafty 17.11 broken? It likes ..Bd5xa2 from Ply 10 up

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:04:28 08/14/00

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On August 14, 2000 at 11:51:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 14, 2000 at 11:37:53, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>On August 14, 2000 at 00:13:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 13, 2000 at 22:57:11, robert blackwell wrote:
>>>
>>>>can someone show me the winning line because bxa2 is fine! b3 cannot be played
>>>>as bxb3 wins! i hope this was a joke ! or did anyone analyse this. b3 nd5 is the
>>>>mistake! bxb3 is the killer~!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Would you please post a line that wins after Bxa2 b3 Bxb3 Nxb3 as my program
>>>claims white is winning easily here.
>>>
>>>You are down a bishop, up two pawns.  That loses.
>>
>>Is my Crafty broken? It likes ..Bd5xa2 from Ply 10 up. Maybee it can see by
>>search that the Bishop gets out?
>>
>>Torstein
>
>
>I haven't tried it...  for it to like it it must see that the bishop gets out
>as white can't play b3 in time.  I will run it on my quad for a while to see.
>
>Bob


Ok... I ran it and what it sees is that the bishop is lost, but it gets another
piece back, so it is fairly even (Crafty isn't happy with black here until
depth=14, as it seems black is walking into an attack while trying to save the
bishop. At depth=16 it becomes much less happy. I get this:

         (2)   11->  18.37  -0.25   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 f5 5. Rf4 Nxd3 6. cxd3 g5 7. Rf3
               12    24.04  -0.20   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 Rd5 5. Be2 f5 6. Rf4 g5 <HT>
               12->  26.52  -0.20   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 Rd5 5. Be2 f5 6. Rf4 g5 <HT>
               13    34.38  -0.31   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 Rd5 5. Bf1 f5 6. Re2 Nxc2 7. Rxa2
                                    Nxd4
         (2)   13->   1:06  -0.31   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 Rd5 5. Bf1 f5 6. Re2 Nxc2 7. Rxa2
                                    Nxd4
               14     2:04  -0.03   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 f5 5. Rf4 g6 6. g4 fxg4 7. Rxg4
                                    Rd6 8. Be2 Nxc2 9. Rxa2 Nxd4
               14->   2:37  -0.03   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 f5 5. Rf4 g6 6. g4 fxg4 7. Rxg4
                                    Rd6 8. Be2 Nxc2 9. Rxa2 Nxd4
               15     4:16  -0.07   1. ... Bxa2 2. Rxc7 Nd5 3. Ra7 Nb4
                                    4. Nf3 Nxd3 5. cxd3 Bd5 6. Re3 Bxf3
                                    7. Rxf3 Rxd4 8. Rxa6 Re8 9. Ra7 f6
               15->   4:55  -0.07   1. ... Bxa2 2. Rxc7 Nd5 3. Ra7 Nb4
                                    4. Nf3 Nxd3 5. cxd3 Bd5 6. Re3 Bxf3
                                    7. Rxf3 Rxd4 8. Rxa6 Re8 9. Ra7 f6
               16     9:32  -0.44   1. ... Bxa2 2. b3 Nd5 3. R7e4 Nb4 4.
                                    Ra1 f5 5. Rf4 Rf6 6. Rxf5 Rxd4 7. Rxf6
                                    gxf6 8. Kf2 Nxd3+ 9. cxd3 Bxb3 10.
                                    Nxb3 Rxd3


I didn't get another move at depth=16 as I started with a 10 minute time limit
and it ran out.



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