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Subject: Re: a test position from IPCCC(Gandalf -Fritz)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:19:30 02/20/01

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On February 20, 2001 at 17:17:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>[D]8/8/3p2r1/3P3k/2R1PQ2/1P4pP/6P1/r2q2NK w - - 0 1
>
>Here Gandlaf played 64.Qf5+(the right move) but after Kh6 65.Qf4+ Kh5 it
>blundered with 66.Qe3.
>
>It was better for gandalf simply to trust previous search.
>the position before 64.Qf5+ is the same as the position before 66.Qe3 so Gandalf
>could do better by trusting previous search.
>
>I guess that Gandalf had less time for all the game when it played 66.Qf5+ and
>had a fail low without having time to solve it.
>
>I am interested to know the score of Gandalf when it played 64.Qf5 and the score
>of it when it played 66.Qe3 that is the losing mistake.
>
>Uri


It must be broken.  I tried this and Crafty sees that Qe3 leads to a -3 score
in 2 seconds on my PIII/750 notebook.  Qf5 has a score of 0.00 as it did from
the original position.




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