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Subject: Re: Is a program able to prepare a winning sacrifice?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:54:46 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 18:30:14, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 19, 2001 at 15:31:11, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:
>
>>In the following game white has a winning knightsacrifice after the important
>>pawnmoves 15.b4! and 16.b5!.Is a program able to find the plan?
>>
>>[Event "40/120"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1992.11.25"]
>>[Round "4"]
>>[White "Lagershausen"]
>>[Black "Fidelity Avantgard#6"]
>>[ECO "A21"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>
>>1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 Bg4 5. d5 Nce7 6. e4
>>Ng6 7. Be2 Nf4 8. Bxf4 exf4 9. Nd4 Bd7 10. Bg4 Ne7 11. O-O
>>Qc8 12. Bxd7+ Qxd7 13. Qb3 O-O-O 14. Qa3 Kb8 15. b4 g6
>>16. b5 Bg7 17. Nc6+ bxc6 18. bxc6 Nxc6 19. Rab1+ Ka8
>>20. Nb5 Bd4 21. dxc6 Qxc6 22. Nxd4 Qd7 23. Qa6 c5 24. Nb5
>>Rb8 25. Nc3 f5 26. Nd5 fxe4 27. Nb6+ Rxb6 28. Rxb6 Qc8
>>29. Qa4 Qe8 30. Qxe8+ Rxe8 31. Rxd6 1-0
>
>Here is the position in question:
>[D]1k1r1b1r/pppqnppp/3p4/3P4/2PNPp2/Q1N5/PP3PPP/R4RK1 w - - bm b4;

Yace won't find it in tournament time control:

title Thomas Lagershausen on January 19, 2001 at 15:31:11
Stored 2 learned positions into hash table
solution  b4
usetime = 599.00, mintime = 599.00 maxtime = 599.00 tl 599.00 ml 0
         2   0.001  -7.91  1t  1.Qxa7+ Kxa7 {-931}
         9   0.001   0.83  1t  1.Qa5 {-10}
        44   0.001   0.83  1.  1.Qa5 {-10}
        94   0.002   0.68  2t  1.Qa5 f6 {-10}
       464   0.003   0.71  2t+ 1.Ncb5 h5 {-10}
       585   0.003   0.89  2t  1.Ncb5 a6 {-10}
       805   0.004   0.89  2.  1.Ncb5 a6 {-10}
       999   0.007   1.01  3t  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 {-10}
      2182   0.009   1.01  3.  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 {-10}
      3605   0.013   0.79  4t  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 f6 {-10}
      6749   0.021   0.79  4.  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 f6 {-10}
     13305   0.038   0.83  5t  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 f6 3.Nc3 {-10}
     34919   0.078   0.83  5.  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 f6 3.Nc3 {-10}
     51938   0.123   0.78  6t  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 f6 3.Ne6 Kb8 {-10}
    147667   0.364   0.78  6.  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Qa5 f6 3.Ne6 Kb8 {-10}
    243029   0.574   0.76  7t  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Rfe1 Qg4 3.Nc3 f5 4.e5 dxe5 5.Rxe5
                               {-10}
    688178   1.407   0.76  7.  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Rfe1 Qg4 3.Nc3 f5 4.e5 dxe5 5.Rxe5
                               {-10}
    896782   1.938   0.72  8t  1.Ncb5 a6 2.Rfe1 Kb8 3.Nc3 f6 4.Qa5 Qg4 {-10}
   2115447   4.805   0.73  8t+ 1.Rfe1 Qg4 2.c5 dxc5 3.Qxc5 Qxg2+ 4.Kxg2 b6
                               5.Qb4 a6 {911}
   2257486   5.139   0.75  8t  1.Rfe1 Qg4 2.c5 dxc5 3.Qxc5 Qh4 4.Nf3 Qf6
                               5.Rac1 {-10}
   2752046   6.345   0.76  8t+ 1.Rac1 Qg4 2.c5 Rd8 3.cxd6 a6 4.dxe7 Qd7 {410}
   2919646   6.748   0.77  8t  1.Rac1 f5 2.Rfe1 fxe4 3.Rxe4 g5 4.Ncb5 a6
                               5.Rce1 {-10}
   3354824   7.685   0.77  8.  1.Rac1 f5 2.Rfe1 fxe4 3.Rxe4 g5 4.Ncb5 a6
                               5.Rce1 {-10}
   5194511  12.163   0.74  9t  1.Rac1 h6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.c5 dxc5 4.Rxc5 Kb8 5.Nc3
                               Rd8 {-10}
  15336536  35.222   0.74  9.  1.Rac1 h6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.c5 dxc5 4.Rxc5 Kb8 5.Nc3
                               Rd8 {-10}
  19517045  45.999   0.77 10t  1.Rac1 Qd8 2.Rfe1 Bd7 3.Ndb5 Bxb5 4.Nxb5 a6
                               5.Nd4 Qd7 6.Qa5 Rcd8 {0}
  35335660  1:22.7   0.77 10.  1.Rac1 Qd8 2.Rfe1 Bd7 3.Ndb5 Bxb5 4.Nxb5 a6
                               5.Nd4 Qd7 6.Qa5 Rcd8 {0}
  51169204  2:01.0   0.71 11t  1.Rac1 f6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.c5 dxc5 4.Rxc5 Kb8 5.Nc3
                               Ka8 6.Qa5 Bf7 {-10}
  55338382  2:11.5   0.72 11t+ 1.Rfe1 Kb8 2.e5 dxe5 3.Rxe5 Ng6 4.Re2 f6 5.Rae1
                               Rd8 6.Ncb5 h5 {-10}
  73835252  2:53.7   0.73 11t  1.Rfe1 Ng6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.Rac1 Ne5 4.c5 dxc5
                               5.Rxc5 Kb8 6.Nc3 f6 {-10}
 129125428  5:02.2   0.73 11.  1.Rfe1 Ng6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.Rac1 Ne5 4.c5 dxc5
                               5.Rxc5 Kb8 6.Nc3 f6 {-10}
 147906167  5:47.1   0.68 12t  1.Rfe1 Ng6 2.b4 Qg4 3.Ncb5 Bxb5 4.Nxb5 a6 5.h3
                               Qg5 6.Qa5 Nh4 7.g4 {0}
 156206235  6:09.3   0.69 12t+ 1.Rac1 f6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.c5 dxc5 4.Rxc5 Kb8 5.Nc3
                               Nxd5 6.exd5 b6 7.Nc6+ Ka8 {250}
 177184977  7:06.2   0.77 12t  1.Rac1 f6 2.Ncb5 a6 3.c5 dxc5 4.Rxc5 Kb8 5.Nc3
                               Bf7 6.Qa5 b6 7.Qb4 {-10}






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