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Subject: Re: New curios position! Is this a draw???

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:42:02 08/17/00

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On August 17, 2000 at 19:29:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 17, 2000 at 14:21:30, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2000 at 13:52:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 16, 2000 at 06:40:10, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>1.Lxd2 Sf6+ 2.gxh8S Txh8+ 3.Th7 fxg1D 4.c8D exd1D 5.bxa8D
>>>>
>>>>>>I think that this line is not a draw.
>>>>
>>>>>>White wins by 5.d8Q+(possible lines 5...Kg3 6.Qd6+ Kf2 7.Qd4+ Kf1 8.Qcc4+ Qe2
>>>>>>9.Qxe2+ Kxe2 10.Nxg1+ hxg1 11.Qxg1 or 5...Rxc8 6.bxc8Q+ Kg3 7.Qd6+ Kf2 8.Qcc5+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>I agree that after 4.c8D exd1D 5.d8Q+! (instead of 5.bxa8Q) White will win.
>>>>
>>>>But what about the preventive 4....Kg3 (instead of exd1D). Is this also a forced
>>>>win for White? At the moment I analyse it with Fritz6 (will take some time).
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Christoph
>>>
>>>I did not analyze the position but only gave it to Junior5.9.
>>>
>>>after 4...Kg3 Junior5.9 fails high on the move Rxh8
>>>
>>>evaluation at depth 13(after the typical 0.3 addition for fail high moves) is
>>>1.03 pawns for white.
>>>
>>>I used pentium200MMX for 2 hours to get the evaluation(my pentiumIII450 is busy
>>>in another task).
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Hi Uri,
>>I agree that 4...Kg3 is not sufficient - but in the meantime I found a line
>>after 1... Ng5+!! which seems to be a forced win for Black! Check this:
>>
>>1.... Ng5+!! 2.gxh8Q Rxh8+ 3.Rh7 fxg1Q! 4.e8Q Rxh7+ 5.gxh7 h1Q 6.Bxc2 Kg3+
>>7.Kxg5 Qc5+ 8.Qe5+ Qxe5+ 9.Nxe5 Qh4+ 10.Kg6 b1Q 11.c8Q Qb6+ 12.Qc6 Qg4+ 13.Kh6
>>a1Q 14.Rxa1 Rxa1 -+
>
>Hi christhophe,

Sorry, should be Christoph(I could copy and paste to avoid the mistake)
>Junior5.9 agrees that 1...Ng5+ is better.
>
>Main line after few hours on p200MMX begins with:
>1...Ng5+ 2.gxh8Q Rxh8+ 3.Rh7 fxg1Q 4.Bxc2 b1Q 5.c8Q Rxh7+
>
>The evaluation is 2.46 pawns for black at depth 13(1725726 knodes)
>
>Uri

Junior falled high at depth 14(2343520 knodes) and is very happy about Ng5
evaluation 2.76 pawns for black(the normal +0.3 when Junior fails high).

Junior did not solve the fail high problem and continues to consider Ng5 at
depth 14.

regards,Uri



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