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

Author: Thomas Lagershausen

Date: 16:17:46 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 19:07:12, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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;
>
>Crafty would pick b4 on a fast machine at tournament time controls:

But he fails to find the right intention of 15.b4.To have the winning sacrifice
17.Nc6+ white needs to play 16.b5 to open the b-file and have a pawn on c6.After
the best defence 16..Ka8! white improves his position with Rab1 and the idear
Rb4 and Ra4.

b1 with>White(1): epdpfga langer.epd langer.out
>PFGA: EPD record: 1   ID: Lagershausen/Fidelity Avantgard#6
>middle-game phase
>              clearing hash tables
>              time surplus   0.00  time limit 10:00 (10:00)
>         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
>                6->   0.28   0.33   1. Qb4 a6 2. c5 dxc5 3. Qxc5 Nf5 4.
>                                    Qc4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4
>                7     0.65   0.35   1. Qb4 a6 2. Nce2 g5 3. c5 Bg7 4. cxd6
>                                    Qxd6
>                7->   0.80   0.35   1. Qb4 a6 2. Nce2 g5 3. c5 Bg7 4. cxd6
>                                    Qxd6
>                8     1.96   0.34   1. Qb4 Ka8 2. Nb3 b6 3. Nd4 a6 4. h3
>                                    Re8
>                8->   2.31   0.34   1. Qb4 Ka8 2. Nb3 b6 3. Nd4 a6 4. h3
>                                    Re8
>                9     9.13   0.35   1. Qb4 g5 2. Rad1 Bg7 3. c5 dxc5 4.
>                                    Qxc5 Qd6 5. Qc4 c6
>                9    11.19   0.40   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Ng6 3. Qa5 Ne5 4.
>                                    Nce2 b6 5. Qd2 g5
>                9->  13.05   0.40   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Ng6 3. Qa5 Ne5 4.
>                                    Nce2 b6 5. Qd2 g5
>               10    16.77   0.41   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Nf5 3. Qc4 Nxd4
>                                    4. Qxd4 f6 5. Rac1 Bd6 6. Qc4 Rhe8
>               10->  22.24   0.41   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Nf5 3. Qc4 Nxd4
>                                    4. Qxd4 f6 5. Rac1 Bd6 6. Qc4 Rhe8
>               11    34.10   0.46   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Ng6 3. Qa5 Ne5 4.
>                                    Nce2 Re8 5. f3 Nc4 6. Qb5 Qxb5 7. Nxb5
>               11->  54.39   0.46   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Ng6 3. Qa5 Ne5 4.
>                                    Nce2 Re8 5. f3 Nc4 6. Qb5 Qxb5 7. Nxb5
>               12     1:21   0.42   1. c5 dxc5 2. Qxc5 Nf5 3. Qc4 Nxd4
>                                    4. Qxd4 f6 5. Rac1 Bd6 6. Qc4 Qe7 7.
>                                    Nb5 Rhe8
>               12     4:01   0.48   1. b4 g5 2. c5 Bg7 3. Rad1 dxc5 4.
>                                    bxc5 h5 5. Ndb5 a6 6. c6 Qe8 7. Nd4
>                                    bxc6
>               12->   4:01   0.48   1. b4 g5 2. c5 Bg7 3. Rad1 dxc5 4.
>                                    bxc5 h5 5. Ndb5 a6 6. c6 Qe8 7. Nd4
>                                    bxc6
>               13     6:07   0.50   1. b4 g5 2. c5 Bg7 3. Rad1 dxc5 4.
>                                    bxc5 Rhe8 5. Ndb5 Nc8 6. Rb1 Bxc3 7.
>                                    Nxc3 Qe7 8. f3
>              time=10:00  cpu=99%  mat=0  n=302680686  fh=90%  nps=503921
>              ext-> checks=8052498 recaps=1263023 pawns=577039 1rep=988288
>thrt:83432
>              predicted=0  nodes=302680686  evals=74756074
>              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0



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