Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:57:52 01/22/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 09:36:53, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>Hossa played a blitz game with Amateur some minutes ago where he got a won
>endgame position. Both sides had a queen and pawns. Hossa was 3 pawns up. Then
>there was the opportunity to exchange the queens resulting in a pawn endgame
>position where Hossa had 3 connected advanced passed pawns and Amateur had no
>passer at all. You can imagine that Hossa was very happy to exchange in this
>line. Unfortunately the 3 passers werent able to force a promotion without the
>help of their king who was far away. On the other hand black could create a
>passer which could not be stopped by white. So in the end Hossa lost this
>"deadly" won position :-)
>
>I am interested if "your" engine could resist to play 46.Qe6+ in a blitz game.
>
>[D]6k1/2pq4/5Q2/p2PPP2/1p1P4/8/P6P/7K w
>
>Best wishes,
>Steffen.
>
>[Event "ICS rated blitz match"]
>[Site "204.178.125.65"]
>[Date "2001.01.22"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "Hossa"]
>[Black "Amateur"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[WhiteElo "2508"]
>[BlackElo "2548"]
>[TimeControl "300+2"]
>
>1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Nf3 h6 7. Bh4 O-O
>8. e3 Nc6 9. Be2 Be6 10. O-O Ne4 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. Qb3 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Rab8
>14. Bd3 Rfd8 15. Qc2 Bg4 16. Nd2 Qg5 17. f4 Qf6 18. Nf3 Ne7 19. Ne5 Bh5 20.
>Bh7+ Kh8 21. g4 Bg6 22. Bxg6 Nxg6 23. c4 Nxe5 24. fxe5 Qe6 25. cxd5 Qxg4+
>26. Kh1 Rf8 27. Rf4 Qc8 28. Rg1 Qd7 29. e4 Qe7 30. Qc1 b5 31. Rf3 b4 32.
>Rfg3 Rg8 33. R1g2 a5 34. Qf4 Rbd8 35. Rh3 f5 36. Rxh6+ gxh6 37. Qxh6+ Qh7
>38. Qf6+ Rg7 39. Qxd8+ Qg8 40. Qf6 Qf7 41. Rxg7 Qxg7 42. Qh4+ Kg8 43. exf5
>Qd7 44. Qg5+ Kf8 45. Qf6+ Kg8 46. Qe6+ Qxe6 47. fxe6 Kf8 48. d6 cxd6 49.
>exd6 a4 50. d7 Ke7 51. Kg2 b3 52. axb3 axb3 53. d5 b2 54. Kf3 b1=Q 55. Kf4
>Qd3 56. Ke5 Qe3+ 57. Kf5 Qd4
>{Hossa resigns} 0-1
Phalanx has a time of it:
[ white, 1 ]
6k1/2pq4/5Q2/p2PPP2/1p1P4/8/P6P/7K w
6k1/2pq4/5Q2/p2PPP2/1p1P4/8/P6P/7K w
-> increment adds 1440 s to soft time limit
-> soft time limit 3154.28 s
-> hard time limit 41599.9 s
6 654 112 213089 Qf6-e6 Qd7-f7 Pf5-f6 Pa5-a4 Qe6-c8 Kg8-h7
Pe5-e6 Qf7xf6 Qc8xc7 Kh7-g6
6 -> 0:01.60 305919 0 turns
7 654 583 1226489 Qf6-e6 ??
7 352 742 1585651 Qf6-e6 Qd7xe6 Pf5xe6 Pa5-a4 Pd5-d6 Pc7xd6
Pe5xd6 Kg8-f8 Pd6-d7 Kf8-e7 Pd7-d8B Ke7xd8
Ph2-h4 Kd8-e7
7 357 762 1623830 Qf6-g6 !
7 525 919 1926808 Qf6-g6 Kg8-f8 Qg6-h6 Kf8-g8 Qh6-g5 Kg8-f8
Kh1-g1 Qd7xd5
7 -> 0:10.26 2108193 1 turn
8 525 1161 2360687 Qf6-g6 Kg8-f8 Qg6-h6 Kf8-g8 Qh6-g5
8 -> 0:23.94 4694659 0 turns
9 525 2935 5710337 Qf6-g6 Kg8-f8 Qg6-h6 Kf8-g8 Qh6-g5
9 526 3916 7666834 Qf6-g5 Kg8-f8 Pd5-d6 Pc7xd6
9 -> 1:10.73 13328419 1 turn
10 526 8747 16329005 Qf6-g5 Kg8-f8 Pd5-d6 Pc7xd6 Pe5-e6 Qd7-b7
Kh1-g1 Qb7-g7 Qg5xg7 Kf8xg7 Pe6-e7 Kg7-f7
10 -> 3:58.68 42938008 0 turns
11 526 40425 71196909 Qf6-g5 Kg8-f8 Pd5-d6 Pc7xd6 Qg5-h6 Kf8-g8
Pe5-e6 Qd7-b7 Kh1-g1 Qb7-g7
11 -> 17:32.80 184157117 0 turns
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