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Subject: Re: classical bishop sac, which program finds it in acceptable time?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 21:33:45 09/24/00

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On September 24, 2000 at 19:25:49, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On September 24, 2000 at 17:09:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 24, 2000 at 16:06:57, Dan Ellwein wrote:
>>
>>>On September 24, 2000 at 10:42:01, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'd suggest 30mins.
>>>>
>>>>[D]rnbqr1k1/pp2bppp/4p3/2ppP3/3P3P/2NB1N2/PPP2PP1/R2QK2R w KQ - bm Bd3h7;id
>>>>Faber-Lautenschuetz;
>>>
>>>Harold
>>>
>>>Can you give the move sequence after Bxh7...
>>
>>It's very deep to see, basically you need to start with
>>
>>Bxh7 kxh7 ng5 bxg5 hxg5 kg8 qh5 kf8 g6 ke7 gf rf8 dxc5
>>
>>And only then diep starts seeing the problems getting a draw score
>>at ply=9, and desperately playing Na6 in the end with a near to
>>draw score, most likely failing low the ply after it.
>>g7 goes away f7 goes away,
>>sacrafices on d5 in all mainlines, and after long castling white plays with
>>some pieces more, but before you see those effectively penetrate the position
>>you're another 10 ply further. After the above sequence i still have
>>a draw score for Qa5 at ply==11, it's hard to blame evaluation, but that's
>>only way to find this combination. Basically you need to get an optimistic
>>score for white as the root position is optimistically evaluated for
>>white. So black needs to see big troubles before it will consider playing
>>Bxh7. 20 plies or so?
>
>Mine plays this within a few seconds and it gets as far as ... Ke7 with an
>approximately even score.  So it's "solving" this with eval.
>
>If you play your whole like out it's still hard to see the win.  I get O-O-O
>after that and some fiddling around with a plus score but no concrete win.
>
>bruce

Maybe there is no forced win but white gets strong attack and advantage that
SHOULD lead to a win.




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