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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:03:32 08/17/00

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On August 17, 2000 at 20:42:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Junior5.9 solved the fail high with score 2.87 pawns for black(3565564 knodes).
The main line was changed and the main line now is
1...Ng5+ 2.gxh8Q Rxh8+ 3.Rh7 Rxh7+ 4.gxh7 Nf7+ 5.Kg7 fxg1Q

Uri



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