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Subject: Re: Positional test - Paralyzing the Knight

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:09:33 02/28/01

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On February 28, 2001 at 11:12:09, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]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

CM8000 doesn't see this one:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/4	0.29	2069		1. Bb4 h6 2. Kf2 Kf6 3. Ke3
0:00	4/7	0.36	34392		1. Bb4 Ke7 2. Kf2 Nf6 3. c5 Bxd5
					4. cxd6+ Kd7 5. Ke3
0:01	5/8	0.38	86957		1. Bb4 Ke7 2. g5 Bc8 3. g4 Bd7
					4. Kf2 Nc7 5. Ke3
0:02	6/9	0.38	230219		1. Bb4 Ke7 2. g5 Bc8 3. g4 Bd7
					4. Kf2 Nc7 5. Ke3
0:07	7/10	0.47	718441		1. Bb4 Ke7 2. Ba4 Nc7 3. c5 dxc5
					4. Bxc5+ Kd8 5. d6 Nb5 6. Kf2 Kd7
					7. Ke3
0:21	8/11	0.45	2098732		1. Bb4 Ke7 2. g5 Bc8 3. g4 Nc7
					4. Kf2 Bb7 5. c5 dxc5 6. Bxc5+
					Kd7 7. d6 Ne6
0:57	9/12	0.50	5661494		1. Bb4 Ke7 2. g5 Bc8 3. g4 Nc7
					4. Kf2 Bd7 5. Bd3 Ba4 6. c5 Nxd5
					7. cxd6+ Kd7
2:37	10/13	0.57	15610886	1. Bb4 Ke7 2. g5 Bc8 3. g4 Nc7
					4. Kf2 Bd7 5. Kf3 Ne8 6. c5 dxc5
					7. Bxc5+ Nd6 8. Bb4

jm



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