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Subject: Re: Gambit 2.0 plays like Botvinnik!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:31:48 04/02/01

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On April 01, 2001 at 14:50:06, jw wrote:

>The following position is from the famous game Botvinnik - Capablanca, Avro
>Holland 1938
>
>8/p3q1kp/1p2Pnp1/3pQ3/2pP4/1nP3N1/1B4PP/6K1 w - -
>
>Amazing! Gambit Tiger 2.0 finds the move 30.Ba3 after 1:34!!!
>As far as I know it's the only program who finds this move (within reasonable
>time).
>The score after 1:34 is 1.28 and after 3:46 it's 4.42 (both at ply 14).
>Used hardware is a Pentium III 1 Ghz.


Just for comparison, here is my quad xeon run:

               12     4.90   0.68   1. Ne2 Na5 2. Nf4 Nc6 3. Nxd5 Nxe5
                                    4. Nxe7 Nd3 5. Ba3 Nf4 6. Nc6 Nxe6
                                    7. Nxa7
         (4)   12->   8.40   0.68   1. Ne2 Na5 2. Nf4 Nc6 3. Nxd5 Nxe5
                                    4. Nxe7 Nd3 5. Ba3 Nf4 6. Nc6 Nxe6
                                    7. Nxa7
         (3)   13    10.19   0.68   1. Ne2 Na5 2. Nf4 Nc6 3. Nxd5 Nxe5
                                    4. Nxe7 Nd3 5. Ba3 Nf4 6. Nc6 Nxe6
                                    7. Nxa7
               13    45.60     ++   1. Ba3!!
         (2)   13     1:09   3.12   1. Ba3 Qe8 2. Qc7+ Kh8 3. Be7 Kg7 4.
                                    Qxa7 g5 5. Qc7 Kg6 6. Bxf6 Kxf6 7.
                                    Qe5+ Kg6 8. Qf5+ Kh6 9. Qxd5 <HT>
               13->   1:12   3.12   1. Ba3 Qe8 2. Qc7+ Kh8 3. Be7 Kg7 4.
                                    Qxa7 g5 5. Qc7 Kg6 6. Bxf6 Kxf6 7.
                                    Qe5+ Kg6 8. Qf5+ Kh6 9. Qxd5 <HT>
               14     1:29     ++   1. Ba3!!
               14     2:01   3.53   1. Ba3 Qe8 2. Qc7+ Kh8 3. Be7 Kg7 4.
                                    Bd8+ Kf8 5. Bxf6 Qxe6 6. Bg7+ Ke8 7.
                                    Qb8+ Kd7 8. Qxa7+ Ke8 9. Qb8+ Kd7 10.
                                    Qb7+ Ke8 11. Kf2
               14->   2:07   3.53   1. Ba3 Qe8 2. Qc7+ Kh8 3. Be7 Kg7 4.
                                    Bd8+ Kf8 5. Bxf6 Qxe6 6. Bg7+ Ke8 7.
                                    Qb8+ Kd7 8. Qxa7+ Ke8 9. Qb8+ Kd7 10.
                                    Qb7+ Ke8 11. Kf2



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