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Subject: Re: Interesting Position (Tactics and King Safety)

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 15:16:55 07/07/01

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On July 07, 2001 at 15:51:46, Peter McKenzie wrote:

> 2r2rk1/1p2bppp/1qn1p3/p2pPn2/1P1P1P1P/P2Q1NP1/1B2N3/2R1K2R w K -
>
>This position was reached in a game on ICC, with LambChop black and a human
>white.  LambChop just played a5, which allows the opponent to attack on the king
>side with g4 Nh6 Ng5 g6 h5 and white is winning I think.
>
>I was a little surprised that it takes Chop 11ply to play g4 (initially it
>preferred b5), and even after a 13ply search the score is still slightly
>negative (0.2 in black's favour).

Yace looks at g4 rather early for some while, but the switches to b5 again. At
depth 11, it fails high for g4. I did not have the patience for depth 13, which
would probably take quite some time. AMD K6-2 475, 35 M hash (in the background,
but had most of the CPU):

   1474829  11.816  -0.24  8t  1.b5 Na7 2.Rxc8 Rxc8 3.g4 Nh6 4.g5 Nf5 5.a4 {0}
   2646070  20.992  -0.23  8t+ 1.g4 Nh6 2.g5 Nf5 3.b5 Qxb5 4.Qxb5 Ncxd4 {841}
   3121153  24.985  -0.13  8t  1.g4 Nh6 2.g5 Nf5 3.b5 Na7 4.Nc3 a4 5.Nxd5 exd5
                               6.Qxf5 Rxc1+ 7.Bxc1 Nxb5 {0}
   3698583  30.260  -0.13  8.  1.g4 Nh6 2.g5 Nf5 3.b5 Na7 4.Nc3 a4 5.Nxd5 exd5
                               6.Qxf5 Rxc1+ 7.Bxc1 Nxb5 {0}
   6880950  52.868  -0.25  9t  1.g4 Nh6 2.g5 Nf5 3.b5 Na7 4.Nc3 Ng3 5.Rg1 {0}
   8451397  1:05.2  -0.24  9t+ 1.b5 Na7 2.a4 Rxc1+ 3.Bxc1 Rc8 4.g4 Ng3 5.Nxg3
                               Rxc1+ 6.Ke2 Bf6 {-10}
   9382282  1:13.6  -0.14  9t  1.b5 Na7 2.a4 Rxc1+ 3.Bxc1 Rc8 4.g4 Nh6 5.Rg1
                               Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 {0}
  11333130  1:30.3  -0.14  9.  1.b5 Na7 2.a4 Rxc1+ 3.Bxc1 Rc8 4.g4 Nh6 5.Rg1
                               Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 {0}
  16745816  2:10.8  -0.11 10t  1.b5 Na7 2.a4 Rxc1+ 3.Bxc1 Rc8 4.g4 Nh6 5.g5
                               Nf5 6.Ba3 Bxa3 {HT} {-350}
  22330531  3:01.5  -0.11 10.  1.b5 Na7 2.a4 Rxc1+ 3.Bxc1 Rc8 4.g4 Nh6 5.g5
                               Nf5 6.Ba3 Bxa3 {HT} {-350}
  38171550  5:05.1  -0.12 11t  1.b5 Na7 2.a4 Rxc1+ 3.Bxc1 Rc8 4.g4 Ng3 5.Nxg3
                               Rxc1+ 6.Ke2H Rc4H 7.Ng5H {HT} {-10}
  66985781  8:38.5  -0.11 11t+ 1.g4 Nh6 2.Ng5 g6 3.h5 Bxg5 4.fxg5 Nxg4 5.hxg6
                               axb4 6.Rxc6 Nh2 {270}
  94335207 12:07.4   0.29 11++ 1.g4 Nh6 2.Ng5 g6 3.h5 Bxg5 4.fxg5 Nxg4 5.hxg6
                               axb4 6.Rxc6 Nh2 {270}
 131801738 17:15.8   0.43 11t  1.g4 axb4 2.gxf5 bxa3 3.Bc3 Nb4 4.Qd2 Qb5 5.Rd1
                               exf5 {HT} {100}
 141126042 18:39.4   0.43 11.  1.g4 axb4 2.gxf5 bxa3 3.Bc3 Nb4 4.Qd2 Qb5 5.Rd1
                               exf5 {HT} {100}

>Any suggestions of what sort of evaluation terms or extensions might help here
>would be welcome :-)

Sorry, I have no good suggestion ...

Regards,
Dieter




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