Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: no tactical mistakes in the match

Author: Thomas Lagershausen

Date: 04:18:17 04/26/01

Go up one level in this thread


On April 26, 2001 at 02:37:39, Uri Blass wrote:

>game 1:
>
>In this position
>R7/3r2k1/4b1p1/P2N3p/5P1P/3K1BP1/5b2/8 w - - 0 1
>>position happened
>
>Deep Fritz played 56.Kc4 0.47/15 Rc7 57.Kb4 0.28/16 Rd7 and the following

>
>[D]R7/3r2k1/4b1p1/P2N3p/1K3P1P/5BP1/5b2/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Deep Fritz played 58.Nb6 0.09/16  time when it pondered 8:57
>and used 1007 knodes per second.
>
>I believe that it is a mistake in the time allocation of Deep Fritz.
>It should use more time for 58.Nb6 and the time of pondering was not enough.
>
>The following facts are obvious:
>
>1)Deep Fritz had a possible move that force repetition(58.Kc4)

White is a pawn up and should avoid a draw.


>2)The score of Deep Fritz dropped and was only slightly above 0
>
>I believe that programs should use more time in these situations.
>The time control was 40/90 and it means that Deep Fritz probably had more than
>45 minutes to calculate and in this situation that is not common I would prefer
>to use at least half of them.
>
>After Rd3 it played 59.Bc6 and the score dropped to -0.06 and after the expected
>move Rb3+ the score dropped again to -0.53
>
>
>
>
>
>
>game 3:
>
>
>[D]8/q3kp2/3p1p2/r3pP2/1p2P1PP/8/P1PQNb1R/1K6 w - - 0 1
>
>It seems that Nc1 is the only move for white not to lose material
>
>Deep Fritz played Qxb4 with 0.00 evaluation(it used 163 seconds and searahed 906
>knodes per second).
>Only after Rxa2 the score dropped to -0.34
>
>How much time do chess programs need to find Nc1?
>Does it save white?

No Nc1 is a weak move.
No problem for Gandalf 4.32h to win the position on my K6-2+ 600Mhz

Engine: Gandalf 4.32h
von Steen Suurballe
 7.01	 0:01 	+0.38 	46...Le3 47.De1 Ta3 48.Te2 Lxc1 49.Kxc1 Txa2 50.Dxb4 Dg1+
51.Kd2 Dxg4 (206.827) 129.2
 8.01	 0:03 	+0.49 	46...Le3 47.Dxb4 Ta4 48.Db3 Txe4 49.Th3 Lxc1 50.Kxc1 Txg4
(502.564) 143.5
 9.01	 0:07 	+0.51 	46...Le3 47.Dxb4 Ta4 48.Db3 Txe4 49.Te2 d5 50.a4 Ke8 51.Db5+
Ke7 (1.128.874) 146.6
10.01	 0:21 	+0.36 	46...Le3 47.Dxb4 Ta4 48.Db3 Txe4 49.Te2 d5 50.a4 Ke8 51.a5
(3.280.657) 150.4
11.01	 1:14 	+0.38 	46...Le3 47.Dxb4 Ta6 48.Sb3 Ta4 49.Dc3 Txe4 50.Te2 d5 51.Ka1
Db6 (10.833.887) 145.6
12.01	 2:29 	+0.49 	46...Le3 47.Dxb4 Ta6 48.Sb3 Lf4 49.Th1 Ta4 50.Dc3 Txa2
51.Sc1 Ta4 52.Te1 Db7+ 53.Sb3 Txe4 54.Txe4 Dxe4 (21.774.330) 145.1
13.01	 6:57 	+0.83 	46...Le3 47.Dxb4 Ta6 48.Sb3 Ta4 49.Db5 Txa2 50.g5 Ld4
51.gxf6+ Kd8 52.Kc1 Lc3 53.Td2 Lxd2+ 54.Sxd2 Dg1+ 55.Sf1 (59.135.806) 141.7

Thomas
>
>Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.