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Subject: Re: Testposition - Good Night Bad Bishop

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 10:27:35 02/25/01

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On February 25, 2001 at 13:18:36, Sune Larsson wrote:

>On February 25, 2001 at 11:48:54, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On February 25, 2001 at 11:39:18, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>On February 25, 2001 at 11:17:38, Sune Larsson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  [D]8/5b2/1k2p1p1/2NpP1P1/1K1P4/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  In this position white's knight is far superior to black's bishop. This is
>>>>  very old knowledge and white is winning this one. People that play French
>>>>  as black might have nightmares of positions like this. The black bishop
>>>>  can only defend the two weak pawns on e6,g6 or wander around like a ghost
>>>>  on the white squares.
>>>>
>>>>  These are the evals from some programs - PIII 800 - 3 min thinking time.
>>>>  The higher +score the better. Remember, white has a won position.
>>>>  And it's about evaluating a superior horse vs a bad, bad bishop.
>>>>
>>>>  [1.Na4+ Kc6 2.Ka5 Kb7 3.Nc5+ Kc7 (3.-Ka7 4.Kb5 Be8+ 5.Kb4 Bf7 6.Ka5 Bg8 7.Kb5)
>>>>   4.Kb5 Be8+ 5.Ka6 Bf7 6.Nb7 Be8 7.Ka7 Bf7 8.Nd6 Bg8 9.Ka6 Kc6 10.Ka5 Bh7
>>>>   11.Nf7 Bg8 12.Nh8 Bh7 13.Ka6 Kc7 14.Kb5 Kb7 15.Kc5 Kc7 16.Nf7 Bg8 17.Nd6 Bh7
>>>>   18.Ne8+ Kd8 19.Nf6 and wins]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  1) AnMon 5.07         +1.05
>>>>  2) Deep Fritz         +1.00
>>>>  3) Fritz 6            +0.97
>>>>  3) Nimzo 7.32         +0.97
>>>>  5) Nimzo 8            +0.90
>>>>  6) Phalanx 22         +0.86
>>>>  7) SOS                +0.80
>>>>  8) Crafty 18.01       +0.54
>>>>  9) CM8K               +0.51
>>>> 10) Hiarcs 7.32        +0.48
>>>> 11) Fritz 5.32         +0.47
>>>> 12) Century 3          +0.43
>>>> 13) Gandalf 4.32g      +0.36
>>>> 14) Junior 6           +0.32
>>>> 15) Junior 5           +0.27
>>>> 16) Gromit 3.1         +0.26
>>>> 17) Chess Tiger        +0.18
>>>>
>>>> Sune
>>>
>>>Deep Shredder 5 beta +0.75
>>
>>After 12 minutes, ply 31, Deep Shredder climbs to +1.49.
>>
>>Enrique
>
> Now that is very interesting! Shredder is climbing and maybe sees something
> beyond the hills! What could that be that motivates a doubling of the evals!?
> Oh, I wonder if ever the time will come when a position like this is set up
> and Shredder 748B immediately shows +9.99, accompanied by Stefan's rugged voice
> declaring that "this is a totally won position for white due to the superiority
> of the white knight compared to the powerless black bishop. The Zugzwang is
> unavoidable." :)

:)

You will have to wait for a loooong time. Deep Fritz has been computing this
position for 95 minutes already. The eval was +1.00 at first and now it dropped
to +0.84, ply 34.

Enrique

> Sune
>>
>>>Junior 7 beta +0.53
>>>
>>>Enrique



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