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Subject: Re: Positional test - Paralyzing the Knight

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 08:59:07 02/28/01

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On February 28, 2001 at 11:43:26, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On February 28, 2001 at 11:12:09, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>
>>  4n3/1b3k1p/p2p2p1/3Pp3/2P3P1/6PP/2BB4/6K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>  This is Hort-Ciocaltea, Budapest 1973. Only two moves are required
>>  to immobilize the black knight and pave the way for the victorious
>>  march of the white king to the deserted queenside:
>>
>>  1.g5! Bc8 2.g4! and black's position is ripe for resignation.
>>
>>  Test: The above move order should be rewarded with big +scores for white.
>>
>>  Sune
>
>
>Maybe Rebel's way is as good as.... 1.Bd4 Ke7 and then 2.g5 Bc8 3.g5
>
>Ed

 Yes, and the thing to follow (like in the Richter game) is if your program
 A)Immobilizes the enemy knight. B) Keeps the horse in the stable.
 In practice playing a piece up. That is also the case in the game
 Winter-Capablanca. And this should have deserved +scores. But how you
 guys transform this chess knowledge to computer language beats me.;)

 Sune
>
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>Loading...
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>Engine version   : Rebel Century 3.1
>Hash table size  :  60 Mb
>
>4n3/1b3k1p/p2p2p1/3Pp3/2P3P1/6PP/2BB4/6K1 w - -
>
>00:00:00  04.00  0.41  1.g5 Bc8 2.g4 Bd7  [1350]
>00:00:01  06.00  0.52  1.Kf2 Ke7 2.g5 Bc8 3.g4 Bd7  [21003]
>00:00:01  07.00  0.48  1.Kf2 Bc8 2.Bb4 h5 3.gxh5 gxh5 4.h4 Kf6  [52075]
>00:00:03  09.00  0.61  1.g5 Bc8 2.g4 Ke7 3.Kf2 Bd7 4.Ke3 Nc7 5.Bb4  [107868]
>00:00:04  10.00  0.65  1.g5 Bc8 2.g4 Ke7 3.Kf2 Bd7 4.Bb4 Nc7 5.c5 Nxd5 6.cxd6
>[165688]
>00:00:07  11.00  0.65  1.g5 Bc8 2.g4 Ke7 3.Kf2 Bd7 4.Bb4 Nc7 5.c5 Nxd5 6.cxd6
>Ke6  [265123]
>00:00:17  12.00  0.67  1.g5 Ke7 2.Kf2 Nc7 3.Bb4 Bc8 4.g4 Bb7 5.h4 Kd7 6.h5 Ke7
>7.hxg6  [312378]
>00:00:27  12.05  0.78  1.Bb4 Ke7 2.Ba4 Nf6 3.c5 dxc5 4.Bxc5 Kd8 5.d6 Nd5 6.Kf2
>e4  [327503]
>00:00:42  13.00  0.74  1.Bb4 Ke7 2.g5 Bc8 3.g4 Bb7 4.Kf2 Nc7 5.c5 Nxd5 6.cxd6
>Kd7  [337210]
>00:01:38  14.00  0.77  1.Bb4 Ke7 2.g5 Bc8 3.g4 Bd7 4.Kf2 Nc7 5.Kf3  [346005]



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