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Subject: Re: A great win of Century 3.0 beta

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 01:46:33 09/23/00

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On September 23, 2000 at 04:29:57, Didzis Cirulis wrote:

>On September 23, 2000 at 01:04:43, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On September 22, 2000 at 22:00:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On September 22, 2000 at 19:05:35, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 22, 2000 at 15:22:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I think that Fritz chose a bad book line.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't think that is true. The line is in both general.ctg and jbook.
>>>>with the performance for black after 14....b4 as 3315.
>>>
>>>I searched for games with the position after 14...b4 in the chessbase site and
>>>found only one game that white lost but white played 15.Nd5 and not 15.Ncb5
>>
>>
>>I had looked around a bit too. 15. Nd5 is in both general.ctg and jbook
>>but with only 1 hit and in analysis mode F6 chooses Ncb5.
>>
>>
>>>I did some analysis with Junior5.9 by starting from the position after 24.Bc5
>>>and going back.
>>
>>>After 24.Bc5 Junior see trouble and after few minutes the score is more than 1.5
>>>pawns for white(1.73 if I remember correctly).
>>>
>>>Alternatives for black in previous moves also seem to be bad.
>>>
>>>23...Qb8 is an option but white can win a pawn by 24.Qxb8+
>>>other options that Junior finds when I go back are 21...gxf6(0.66 pawns for
>>>white) and there are alternatives at move 16 like Qb7 but the score is more than
>>>0.5 pawns for white).
>>
>>
>>I looked at the position for a while prior to my previous post and
>>pretty much the first few moves are forced.
>>There are a number of playable alternatives for black.
>>19.....gxf6 20. Kb1 Ra5 21. Bb6 Qxb6 22. Qxd7+ Kf8 23. Rd6 Kg7
>>24. Qxc6 Qxc6 25. Rxc6 Rha8 26. Ba6 R8xa6 27.Rxa6 Rxa6
>>                        21. Rd2 Qe7  23. Qxe7+ Kxe7 23. Bb6 Rg5
>>24. Rhd1 Be8 25. Bf3.
>>As well as naturally 21....gxf6. 0.66 is not game.
>>
>>
>>>If the line is even then I would like to know what is the mistake of Fritz that
>>>Rebel avoid?
>>
>>I said IMO the position was even. I never said anything about any program
>>avoiding anything. Though IMO the critical move is 19.....Ra1+.
>>I said for Didzis to reverse colors and play it over from the end of
>>the opening. If the line turns out to be a bad book line for black then
>>that also needs to be noted by all programs.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>OK, Sarah, I am will do it right now! It means: reversed colors, clock started
>afresh. I will post the game later.
>
>Didzis

The game restarted from move 13. Fritz played g5.
This will be a "double" test - both for engines and for that newest Fritz
service pack. I use it, but with the Fritz 6a from the SP1. The question is a
bit off-topic, namely, how long will it play  before it stops responding? Why?
Because I try to run at 563Mhz. Previous SP used to stop responding after some
10 minutes... Fritz is the only program in my Celeron 500, which does (did?) not
like this speed-up.

Didzis





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