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Subject: Re: Any program to find this sacrifice??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:27:39 06/09/01

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On June 09, 2001 at 13:50:54, Peter Ackermann wrote:

>While analyzing a little bit in old tournament books I found the following game
>from 1930 olympiad in Hamburg:
>
>(Richter,K - Abramavicius,L [C11]
>Hamburg ol (Men) Hamburg, 1930
>1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bg5 e6 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.Bd3 0–0
>9.Qe2 c5 10.0–0–0 cxd4 11.g4 g6 12.h4 Bg7 13.h5 Re8 14.hxg6 hxg6 15.g5 e5 16.Rh4
>Nf8 17.Rdh1 Bf5 18.Qf1 Rc8 19.Rh8+ Bxh8 20.Rxh8+ Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Nh7 22.Nf6 Kg7
>23.Qh6+ 1–0
>
>The "hot" positon arises after move 18 of black where white played a double rock
>sacrifice!!
>
>r1bq1rk1/pp1n1ppp/4pb2/2p5/3PN3/3B1N2/PPP1QPPP/R3K2R w KQ c6 0 10
>
>!9.Rxh8+ seems to be a very difficult move to find for any computer program. Any
>program to find 19. Rh8+ in a reasonable time?? Would be glad to hear any
>successes.....

Your position is wrong

The right position is:


[D]2rqrnkb/pp3p2/6p1/4pbP1/3pN3/3B1N2/PPP2P2/2K2Q1R w - - 0 1

Analysis by Deep Fritz (after showing it the right line and going back):

20.Rxh8+--
  -+  (-6.16)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
20.Rxh8+-- Kxh8
  -+  (-7.06)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
20.c3!
  -+  (-7.00)   Depth: 1/5   00:00:00
20.c3! dxc3
  -+  (-6.50)   Depth: 1/8   00:00:00
20.Qe2!
  -+  (-6.28)   Depth: 1/8   00:00:00
20.Qe2!
  -+  (-5.37)   Depth: 1/8   00:00:00
20.Qe2 Ne6
  -+  (-5.53)   Depth: 2/5   00:00:00
20.Qe2 Ne6 21.Kb1
  -+  (-5.44)   Depth: 3/10   00:00:00
20.Qe2 Ne6 21.Kb1 Nf4
  -+  (-5.59)   Depth: 4/14   00:00:00  1kN
20.Kb1!
  -+  (-5.56)   Depth: 4/14   00:00:00  2kN
20.Kb1! Ne6
  -+  (-5.53)   Depth: 4/14   00:00:00  2kN
20.Kb1 Ne6 21.Qe2 Nf4 22.Qd2
  -+  (-5.66)   Depth: 5/19   00:00:00  12kN
20.Qe2!
  -+  (-5.62)   Depth: 5/19   00:00:00  13kN
20.Qg2!
  -+  (-5.59)   Depth: 5/19   00:00:00  17kN
20.Qg2! Qc7
  -+  (-5.56)   Depth: 5/19   00:00:00  18kN
20.Rxh8+!
  -+  (-5.53)   Depth: 5/19   00:00:00  25kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8 21.Nf6 Kg7 22.Nxe8+ Qxe8
  -+  (-5.22)   Depth: 5/25   00:00:00  27kN
20.Rxh8+!
  -+  (-4.91)   Depth: 6/18   00:00:00  30kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8 21.Nf6 Bg4 22.Nxg4 e4 23.Qh3+ Kg8
  -+  (-4.06)   Depth: 6/19   00:00:00  34kN
20.Rxh8+!
  -+  (-3.75)   Depth: 7/18   00:00:00  49kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Bxd3
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 7/25   00:00:00  121kN
20.Rxh8+--
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 8/18   00:00:00  131kN
20.Rxh8+-- Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 8/25   00:00:00  172kN
20.Rxh8+!
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 9/25   00:00:00  261kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 9/25   00:00:00  309kN
20.Rxh8+--
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 10/22   00:00:00  354kN
20.Rxh8+-- Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Bxd3 24.Qh6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 10/26   00:00:00  476kN
20.Rxh8+!
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:01  742kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 11/27   00:00:01  894kN
20.Rxh8+--
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 12/27   00:00:01  1153kN
20.Rxh8+-- Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Bxd3 24.Qh6 Ne6 25.Ng5 Rxc2+
  -+  (-1.84)   Depth: 12/29   00:00:02  1850kN
20.Rxh8+!
  -+  (-1.53)   Depth: 13/32   00:00:05  3821kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Bxd3
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 13/34   00:00:07  5229kN
20.Rxh8+--
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 14/31   00:00:09  6871kN
20.Rxh8+-- Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Bxd3 24.Qh6
  =  (-0.03)   Depth: 14/34   00:00:14  9940kN
20.Rxh8+!
  ²  (0.28)   Depth: 15/34   00:00:27  18827kN
20.Rxh8+! Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Rc6 24.Bxf5 Rxf6 25.Be4 b5
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 15/35   00:00:36  25280kN

(Blass, Tel-Aviv 09.06.2001)

The score is not convincing and it is clear that black missed a better try.

Deep Fritz is more optimistic later but the score is still less than +1

After 20.Rxh8+ Kxh8 21.Qh1+ Kg8 22.Nf6+ Qxf6 23.gxf6 Rc6 24.Bxf5 Rxf6

Deep Fritz shows the following analysis:

New game - Deep Fritz
[D]4rnk1/pp3p2/5rp1/4pB2/3p4/5N2/PPP2P2/2K4Q w - - 0 1

Analysis by Deep Fritz:

25.Nxd4--
  ²  (0.41)   Depth: 1/4   00:00:00
25.Nxd4-- exd4
  -+  (-1.47)   Depth: 1/6   00:00:00
25.Be4!
  =  (0.03)   Depth: 1/6   00:00:00
25.Be4! b6 26.Qf1 Nd7 27.Qb5 Rd8 28.Qd5 Re6 29.Qc4 Nc5
  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 1/10   00:00:00
25.Be4 b5 26.Qe1 a6 27.Qa5 Rfe6 28.Qc7 Kg7 29.Kd2 Kf6
  ±  (0.81)   Depth: 2/10   00:00:00
25.Be4 Rb6 26.c3 Nd7
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 3/8   00:00:00
25.Be4 b5 26.Kd2 Rc8 27.Nxe5 Rxf2+
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 4/12   00:00:00
25.Be4 b5 26.Kd2 Rc8 27.c3 dxc3+ 28.bxc3
  ±  (0.81)   Depth: 5/12   00:00:00  2kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Kd2 Nd7 27.Qh4 Nc5
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 6/14   00:00:00  9kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Qf1 Nd7 27.Qb5 Rd8 28.Qd3 Nc5
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 7/15   00:00:00  30kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Qf1 Nd7 27.Qb5 Rd6 28.Kd2 Kf8
  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 8/17   00:00:00  67kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Kd2 Nd7 27.Bd5 Nc5 28.b4 Rd6 29.bxc5 Rxd5
  ²  (0.63)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:00  218kN
25.Bd3!
  ²  (0.66)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:00  390kN
25.Bd3! Rf4 26.Ng5 Re7 27.Ne4 Ne6
  ²  (0.69)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:00  448kN
25.Bd3 Rf4 26.Ng5 Re7 27.Ne4 Ne6
  ²  (0.69)   Depth: 10/24   00:00:01  921kN
25.Bd3 Rf4 26.Ng5 Re7 27.Qg2 Rc7
  ±  (0.72)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:03  1918kN
25.Be4!
  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 11/27   00:00:04  2593kN
25.Be4! b6 26.Qh2 Rf4 27.Bc6 Re6 28.Bd5 Ref6 29.Qg3 a6
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 11/27   00:00:04  2813kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Qh2 Nd7 27.Ng5 Nf8 28.Bd5 Rf5
  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 12/28   00:00:06  4174kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Qh2 Kg7 27.Nxe5 Rfe6 28.Ng4
  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 13/29   00:00:17  11365kN
25.Be4 b6 26.Qf1 Re7 27.Qb5 Rfe6 28.Qc4 Rd6
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 14/32   00:02:21  86854kN

(Blass, Tel-Aviv 09.06.2001)

Uri
>
>Greetings Peter



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