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Subject: Re: Testposition - The Silence of the Knight

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 04:33:26 02/28/01

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On February 28, 2001 at 07:13:50, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]3r1r1k/p2p2pp/np1P1q2/5p2/1PP1p3/P3Q3/B2R1PPP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
>
>  This is the game Kurt Richter - Schlage, Berlin 1930.
>  We can call it a positional test. The theme is about
>  immobilizing your opponent's pieces. Guess Richter was
>  in a splendid mood when he played 1.c5! bxc5 2.b5! Nb8 3.Lc4!
>  The black knight was a mere spectator for the rest of the game:
>
>  1.c5! bxc5 2.b5! Nb8 3.Bc4! Rde8 4.f4 Rc8 5.a4 h6 6.Rd5 g5 7.fxg5 Qxg5
>  8.Qxg5 hxg5 9.g4! fxg4 10.Rxe4 Rf4 11.Rxf4 gxf4 12.Rg5 g3 13.hxg3 fxg3
>  14.Kg2 Kh7 15.Kxg3 a6 16.Kf4 axb5 17.axb5 Kh6 18.Rg8 Rxg8 19.Bxg8 Kg7
>  20.Bc4 Kf6 21.Ke4 Kg5 22.Kd5 Kf4 23.Kxc5 Ke5 24.Bg8 Kf6 25.Kb6  1-0
>
>  Test: Your program should give white a big +score for the
>        moveorder 1.c5! bxc5 2.b5!
>
>  Sune


No big plus score but Century 3.1 (beta) does the job in 9 seconds.

Ed

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3r1r1k/p2p2pp/np1P1q2/5p2/1PP1p3/P3Q3/B2R1PPP/4R1K1 w - -

00:00:00  04.00  0.66  1.Bb3 Rc8 2.Qh3 h6  [2291]
00:00:01  05.00  0.67  1.Bb3 Rfe8 2.Qh3 f4  [8135]
00:00:02  06.00  0.64  1.Bb3 Rc8 2.Qh3 h6 3.Rdd1 Qb2  [26176]
00:00:04  07.00  0.60  1.Bb3 Rc8 2.Qh3 h6 3.Red1 Nb8 4.Qg3  [45612]
00:00:06  08.00  0.55  1.Bb3 Nb8 2.Rd5 Nc6 3.Rdd1 Ne5 4.Qh3  [107959]
00:00:09  08.07  0.55  1.c5  [141105]
00:00:09  08.07  0.74  1.c5 bxc5 2.b5 Nb8 3.Qxc5 a6 4.Rc1 axb5 5.Qxb5  [154984]
00:00:11  09.00  0.55  1.c5 bxc5 2.Bc4 Nb8 3.bxc5 Nc6 4.Qh3 Ne5 5.Bd5  [154691]
00:00:24  10.00  0.50  1.c5 bxc5 2.b5 Nb8 3.Qxc5 a6 4.Rc1 axb5 5.Qxb5 Rc8 6.Rc7
Qa1  [243271]
00:01:03  11.00  0.50  1.c5 bxc5 2.b5 Nb8 3.Qxc5 a6 4.Rc1 axb5 5.Qxb5 Rc8 6.Rc7
Qa1 7.Qf1  [279474]




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