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Subject: Re: For T. J. Frohlick: Taking up this position again with Tiger and Gambit

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 14:29:07 10/08/00

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On October 08, 2000 at 13:55:25, Arturo Ochoa wrote:

>Hello:
>
>I'm building a specific Test Chess Suite based on the difficult strategic chess
>theme of the pawn positional sacrifice.
>
>This position, as I said previously, comes from one game of the 1999 Sarajevo
>Tournament between Alexander Morozevich (2723) and Alexei Shirov (2726).
>Alexander Morozevich sacrified a pawn spectacularly in the move forty. I am
>really wondered how Morozevich found this move.
>
>[D] 4r1k1/2pn1p2/1p3qp1/1P1Pb2p/2P4P/2B2BP1/2Q2PK1/3R4 w - -
>
>
>According to Timothy J. Frohlick, Gambit Tigers got the position in only 2½
>minutes.
>
>He said : "Gambit Tiger 0.95 on a 333 PII with 24 Mb Hash finds the correct move
>after 2 minutes and 30 seconds.  d6 cxd6 etc.  Not too shabby.  I think that
>Gambit Tiger is a pretty strong program."
>
>Source: http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?131688
>
>He says: "I guess that Gambit Tiger 0.95 is a wizard.  And I only have a PII
>333Mhz 64M Ram machine".
>
>Source: http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?131689
>
>I repeated the analysis process and my results were completely different from
>the Timothy's ones.
>
>For example:
>Fritz6a only considers 40.Re1 after one hour of analysis.
>
>Gambit Tiger only considers 40. Re1 after thirty eight minutes. Look:
>0:0:38:30.8 1.52 18 1060611375 Re1 Re7 Bd2 Qd6 Qa4 Nc5 Qa8 Kg7 Qc6 f5 Re3 Rf7
>Qxd6 cxd6 Ra3 Bd4 Bf4 Be5 Bg5.
>
>As you can see, Gambit Tiger never consider the move 40. d6!! after 1 hour with
>47 minutes.
>
>However, Tiger 12.95b got the position in thirty minutes!
>0:0:30:05.6 2.56 17 289975486 d6 cxd6 Bd2 Qe6 Bd5 Qg4 Bg5 Kg7 Re1 Rc8 Qa2 Qf5
>Re3 f6
>0:0:30:05.6 2.75 18 609564548 d6 cxd6 Bd2 Qe6 Bd5 Qg4 Bg5 Kg7 Re1 Rc8 Qa2 Qf5
>Re3 f6 Rf3 Qg4
>
>Tiger12.95 not only gots the correct move in thirty minutes, but also it keeps
>this variation for a ply of 15 moves.
>
>I used a PC with the following configuration:
>PIII-600MHz.
>Windows ME
>CP5b.
>I used 96Mb of Hash Tables for both Tiger12.95b and Gambit0.95b.
>
>I have tested other Chess Programs, but the only one that got the move in that
>position was Tiger 12.95b.
>
>For my criterion, Tiger 12.95b "unbderstands" the position much better than
>Gambit Tiger and others.
>
>The complete .EPD line is:
>
>4r1k1/2pn1p2/1p3qp1/1P1Pb2p/2P4P/2B2BP1/2Q2PK1/3R4 w - - bm d5d6;c0 Alexander
>Morozevich (2723) - Alexei Shirov (2726);c1 Sarajevo  19.05.1999;eco C42;id Pawn
>Positional Sacrificied  Pos 1;
>
>The Complete Game is:
>
>[Event "Sarajevo"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1999.05.19"]
>[Round "3"]
>[White "Morozevich, Alexander"]
>[Black "Shirov, Alexei"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C42"]
>[WhiteElo "2723"]
>[BlackElo "2726"]
>[PlyCount "113"]
>[EventDate "1999.05.17"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. c4
>Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. cxd5 Qxd5 14. c4 Qd6
>15. Be3 Bf6 16. Ra2 Rad8 17. d5 Na5 18. Nd4 Bd7 19. a4 Rfe8 20. Nb5 Bxb5 21.
>axb5 b6 22. Bd2 Nb7 23. Rxa7 Nc5 24. Bf3 Be5 25. g3 Qf6 26. Kg2 Re7 27. h4 h6
>28. Qc2 Rde8 29. Re1 Bd6 30. Rxe7 Qxe7 31. Qf5 g6 32. Qb1 h5 33. Bg5 Qe5 34. Ra3
>Qd4 35. Qc2 Nd7 36. Rd3 Qa1 37. Rd1 Qe5 38. Bd2 Qf6 39. Bc3 Be5 40. d6 cxd6 41.
>Bd2 Qe6 42. Bd5 Qg4 43. Bg5 Kg7 44. Re1 Rc8 45. Qa2 Qf5 46. Re3 f6 47. Rf3 Qg4
>48. Bf4 Re8 49. Qa7 Re7 50. Qc7 Kh7 51. Bxe5 dxe5 52. Qd6 Rg7 53. Bc6 Qd4 54.
>Rd3 Qxd6 55. Rxd6 Nc5 56. Rxf6 Ra7 57. Bd5 1-0
>
>Alternative variations to the game main line would be:
>
>1) If 40. ... Bxc3 41.dxc7 Nc5 42. Qxc3 Qxc3 43. Rd8
>2)                 If 41...Ad4 42.Ab7 Ce5 42.Dxc3
>
>
>Best Regards, Arturo Ochoa.



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