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

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 01:59:37 01/20/01

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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 Century 3's Logfile. It would play b4 at 3:17 0n an
Athlon 900 with the intention of following up with b5.

  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  Pos   1 - BMB4.EPD
8 |   | *K|   | *R|   | *B|   | *R|
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  00:00:00      00:00:00
7 | *p| *p| *p| *Q| *N| *p| *p| *p|
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
6 |   |   |   | *p|   |   |   |   |  Time          infinite
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  Hash          80 Mb
5 |   |   |   | p |   |   |   |   |  Engine        Rebel Century 3.0
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  Personality   REBEL.ENG
4 |   |   | p | N | p | *p|   |   |  anti-GM       Off
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  Tactics       Off
3 | Q |   | N |   |   |   |   |   |  Bluff Chess   Off
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  Style         Normal
2 | p | p |   |   |   | p | p | p |  Strength      Strongest
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  Search        Normal Search
1 | R |   |   |   |   | R | K |   |
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h

1k1r1b1r/pppqnppp/3p4/3P4/2PNPp2/Q1N5/PP3PPP/R4RK1 w - -

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "??.??.????"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pos   1"]
[Black "BMB4.EPD"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[FEN "1k1r1b1r/pppqnppp/3p4/3P4/2PNPp2/Q1N5/PP3PPP/R4RK1 w - - 0 1"]

1.*

00:00:00  1.00  -2.75   1.Ne6 fxe6
00:00:00  1.03  -2.32   1.Nc6+ bxc6
00:00:00  1.04  -0.32   1.Nf5 Nxf5 2.exf5 Qxf5
00:00:00  1.05  0.88   1.Rae1
00:00:00  2.00  0.70   1.Rae1 h5
00:00:00  2.01  0.72   1.b4 h5
00:00:00  2.03  0.87   1.Ncb5 a6
00:00:00  3.00  0.58   1.Ncb5 a6 2.Nc3
00:00:00  3.01  0.79   1.b4 h5 2.Ncb5
00:00:00  4.00  0.80   1.b4 h5 2.Ncb5 a6
00:00:00  5.00  0.71   1.b4 h5 2.Rae1 g5 3.Ncb5
00:00:00  6.00  0.51   1.b4 g5 2.Nf3 Bh6 3.Nb5 a6
00:00:01  6.29  0.55   1.Nf3 g6 2.e5 a6 3.Rae1 dxe5
00:00:01  7.00  0.46   1.Nf3 g6 2.e5 h5 3.Rae1 Bg7 4.exd6
                       cxd6  (1)

00:00:02  8.00  0.48   1.Nf3 g6 2.Rae1 Bg7 3.Ne2 Be5 4.g3
                       fxg3 5.fxg3  (2)

00:00:04  8.05  0.50   1.Rad1 Re8 2.b4 g5 3.Ncb5 a6 4.Nc3
00:00:07  9.00  0.55   1.Rad1 Re8 2.b4 g5 3.c5 dxc5 4.bxc5
                       Bg7 5.c6 Qd6  (6)

00:00:16 10.00  0.38   1.Rad1 Re8 2.Nf3 g6 3.Rfe1 Bg7 4.Ne2
                       Bh6 5.b4 g5  (12)

00:00:20 10.01  0.44   1.Nf3 Ng6 2.Rac1 Be7 3.Rce1 Bf6
                       4.b4 h5 5.Nb5  (16)

00:00:47 11.00  0.38   1.Nf3 Ng6 2.Rac1 Be7 3.b4 Ne5 4.Nb5
                       a6 5.Nbd4 h5 6.Rfe1  (41)

00:02:30 12.00  0.32   1.Nf3 g5 2.Nxg5 Rg8 3.h4 Qg4 4.Qa5
                       a6 5.b4 Qxh4  (121)

00:02:46 12.01  0.34   1.Rad1 g5 2.c5 Bg7 3.Ncb5 a6 4.c6
                       Qc8 5.cxb7 Qxb7 6.Nc3 h5 7.b4 g4  (150)

00:03:17 12.02  0.34   1.b4
00:03:22 12.02  0.45   1.b4 g5 2.b5 Ka8 3.Rab1 Nc8 4.Nf5
                       Ne7 5.Nxe7 Bxe7  (197)


Positions                :     129.035.887
Nodes per second         :         405.773

Extensions (checks)      :       4.282.293 (3%)
Extensions (captures)    :         886.240 (0%)
Extensions (king safety) :          26.632 (0%)
Extensions (on depth)    :               0 (0%)
Extensions (remaining)   :         212.435 (0%)
Extensions (total)       :       5.407.600 (4%)

Hash Table               : 1.670.577  1.497.293  (89%)
Average depth            : 13
Deepest depth            : 46





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