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Subject: Re: Testposition - Tactics

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:01:09 07/11/01

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On July 11, 2001 at 12:52:30, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
> [D]r5nr/pp3kpp/2pb4/3pn1P1/8/2N1B2B/PPP2P1P/2KRR3 w - - 0 20
>
> IM Berg,Emanuel 2496 - GM Akesson,Ralf 2481
>
>
> This is a position from today's 10th round in the SWE-ch. 19 year old
> Berg is a very gifted tactician. Here he chose 20.Nxd5!, got an advantage
> and won the game vs his more experienced opponent. It was from a e5-pushed
> Caro-Kann.
>
> Test: How long before your program finds and chooses 20.Nxd5!
>
> The whole game below.
>
>
>[Event "SM"]
>[Site "SWE"]
>[Date "2001.07.11"]
>[Round "10"]
>[White "Berg, Emanuel"]
>[Black "Akesson, Ralf"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B12"]
>[WhiteElo "2496"]
>[BlackElo "2481"]
>[PlyCount "61"]
>[EventDate "2001.07.11"]
>
>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. Nge2 f6 7. Nf4 Bf7 8. Qe2
>fxe5 9. Qxe5 Nd7 10. Qe2 Qf6 11. g5 Qxd4 12. Nxe6 Bxe6 13. Qxe6+ Be7 14. Bh3
>Qe5+ 15. Be3 Qxe6 16. Bxe6 Bd6 17. O-O-O Ke7 18. Bh3 Ne5 19. Rhe1 Kf7 20. Nxd5
>cxd5 21. Rxd5 Rd8 22. Bc5 Nc4 23. Rd4 b6 24. Be6+ Kg6 25. Bxc4 bxc5 26. Re6+
>Kxg5 27. Rdxd6 Nf6 28. Rc6 Rd7 29. Rxc5+ Kh4 30. Re3 Ng4 31. Re4 1-0

That one is a BEAUTY!  I'll have to add it to my tough guys collection.

Here is Yace giving it a try (no go after 999 seconds):
Crafty is the magic word, Scid wants to see
Yace (Yet another chess engine) version 0.99.50

Type help for a (very unhelpful) list of commands
Make sure, you have a file yace.ini in the current directory, with a line:

hash 30M

or similar, otherwise Yace will only use a very small hash of 1M.

feature done=0
DBBOOK101 100000 128 20 ff 251465
entries 87381 size 1048572 size_wanted 1048576 tts3 29126
pos_learn = 1
Stored 7 learned positions into hash table
book_learn = 4
Could not open "dblearn.bin" in mode rb: Winboard does not like my error message

hash size wanted 32000000
Stored 7 learned positions into hash table
entries 2666664 size 31999968 size_wanted 32000000 tts3 888887
5-men endgame table bases found
irepcheck = 0.75
irecapture = 0.75
null_low = 2.50
white ( 1): setboard r5nr/pp3kpp/2pb4/3pn1P1/8/2N1B2B/PPP2P1P/2KRR3 w - -
Stored 7 learned positions into hash table
white ( 1): st 999
white ( 1): go
usetime = 998.00, mintime = 998.00 maxtime = 998.00 tl 998.00 ml 0
         7   0.023  -0.41  1t  1.Nxd5 cxd5 2.Rxd5 {-170}
        25   0.024   0.07  1t  1.Bc5 Bxc5 2.Rxe5 Bxf2 {-80}
        26   0.026   1.36  1t  1.Bd4 {10}
        67   0.028   1.36  1.  1.Bd4 {10}
       187   0.030   1.39  2t  1.Bd4 Nf3 {10}
       603   0.032   1.39  2.  1.Bd4 Nf3 {10}
      1013   0.034   1.21  3t  1.Bd4 Nf3 2.Be6+ Kg6 {10}
      3006   0.041   1.21  3.  1.Bd4 Nf3 2.Be6+ Kg6 {10}
      3581   0.044   0.81  4-- 1.Bd4 Nf3 2.g6+ hxg6 3.Bc5 {-70}
      6138   0.064   0.16  4t  1.Bd4 Nf3 2.Re3 Nxd4 {-340}
      7652   0.070   0.25  4t+ 1.Bc5 Bxc5 2.Rxe5 Kg6 3.Rf1 Bxf2 {-80}
      8699   0.074   0.59  4t  1.Bc5 Bxc5 2.Rxe5 Re8 3.f4 Rxe5 4.fxe5 {0}
     14442   0.087   0.71  4t+ 1.Kb1 Bb4
     15451   0.092   0.82  4t  1.Kb1 Nf3 2.Re2 Bxh2 {-70}
     19837   0.104   0.90  4t+ 1.f4 Ne7
     20817   0.109   0.99  4t  1.f4 Nc4 2.Rd4 Nxe3 {-340}
     27043   0.126   1.00  4t+ 1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Bd2 a5 {10}
     27502   0.129   1.03  4t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Bd2 Bxd2+ 3.Nxd2 {10}
     32036   0.142   1.03  4.  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Bd2 Bxd2+ 3.Nxd2 {10}
     42125   0.170   0.94  5t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 Ne7 3.Bd4 {10}
    142610   0.402   0.95  5t+ 1.Bg2 Nc4 2.Nxd5 Nxb2 3.Kxb2 Be5+ 4.Bd4 cxd5
                               {10}
    157205   0.448   0.96  5t  1.Bg2 Bb4 2.Bd4 Ng4 3.h4H {10}
    178999   0.494   0.96  5.  1.Bg2 Bb4 2.Bd4 Ng4 3.h4 {10}
    242899   0.686   0.93  6t  1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Bd4 N5g6 3.h3 Bf4+ 4.Be3H {10}
    613046   1.417   0.93  6.  1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Bd4 N5g6 3.h3 Bf4+ 4.Be3 {10}
    806598   1.958   0.80  7t  1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Ne4 Bb4 3.Bd2 Bxd2+ 4.Nxd2 N7g6 {10}
    860514   2.109   0.81  7t+ 1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 Bxd2+ 3.Bxd2 Ng4 4.Bxg4 Kg6
                               {360}
   1015741   2.448   0.93  7t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Bd2 Bxd2+ 3.Nxd2 Re8 4.f4 Ng6H
                               5.f5H Rxe1H 6.Rxe1H {10}
   2302947   4.905   0.93  7.  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Bd2 Bxd2+ 3.Nxd2 Re8 4.f4 Ng6 5.f5
                               Rxe1 6.Rxe1 {10}
   3716156   8.066   0.79  8t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 Re8 3.b3 Bxd2+ 4.Bxd2 h6
                               5.gxh6H Nxh6H {20}
   7663560  15.844   0.79  8.  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 Re8 3.b3 Bxd2+ 4.Bxd2 h6 5.gxh6
                               Nxh6 {20}
   9965302  20.524   0.60  9t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 h6 3.gxh6 Nxh6 4.Bd4 Nhg4 5.Bf1
                               Rae8 {10}
  23838251  49.566   0.61  9t+ 1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bf4+ 3.Kb1 Bxg5 4.Be6+ Kg6 5.b3
                               Na3+ 6.Kb2 Bh6 {-70}
  24917467  51.775   0.61  9t  1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2H 3.b3H Bf4+H 4.Kb1H Nb6H
                               5.Be6+H Kg6H 6.Nxd5H cxd5H {-330}
  29501655  1:01.6   0.61  9.  1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.b3 Bf4+ 4.Kb1 Nb6 5.Be6+
                               Kg6 6.Nxd5 cxd5 {-330}
  35610450  1:15.9   0.44 10t  1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.Kb1 Bf4 4.Rg1 Nd2+ 5.Ka1
                               Nf3 6.Be6+ Kg6 {-70}
  36789240  1:19.0   0.45 10t+ 1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 h6 3.gxh6 Nxh6 4.f4 Nhg4 5.fxe5
                               Nxe5 {270}
  40544728  1:27.5   0.56 10t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 h6 3.Bg2 hxg5 4.Bxg5 Rxh2
                               5.Bxd5+ cxd5 6.Rxe5H {HT} {0}
  81596960  2:55.9   0.56 10.  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 h6 3.Bg2 hxg5 4.Bxg5 Rxh2
                               5.Bxd5+ cxd5 6.Rxe5 {HT} {0}
  96348673  3:28.6   0.42 11t  1.Ne4 Bb4 2.Nd2 h6 3.Bg2 hxg5 4.Bxg5 Rxh2
                               5.Bxd5+ cxd5 6.Rxe5 Re8 7.Rxd5 {80}
 104205082  3:49.8   0.43 11t+ 1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.Kb1 Bf4 4.Rg1 Nd2+ 5.Ka1
                               Kg6 6.Re6+ Nf6 7.gxf6+ Kf7 {270}
 138492959  5:09.9   0.61 11t  1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.Kb1 Bf4 4.Rg1 Rd8 5.Rg4
                               Bd2 6.Rg3 {-70}
 147073547  5:35.7   0.62 11t+ 1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Ne4 Bc7 3.Nc5 Ng4 4.Bd4 Bf4+ 5.Kb1
                               Kf8 6.Bxg7+ Kxg7 7.Rxe7+ Kg6 {80}
 166936158  6:26.8   0.63 11t  1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Ne4 Bb4 3.Bd2 Bxd2+ 4.Nxd2 N7g6
                               5.Re3 Rhe8 {HT} {10}
 259813249  9:34.8   0.63 11.  1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Ne4 Bb4 3.Bd2 Bxd2+ 4.Nxd2 N7g6
                               5.Re3 Rhe8 {HT} {10}
 328567440 12:30.7   0.48 12t  1.Bg2 Ne7 2.Bd4 N5g6 3.Bh3 Bxh2 4.Kb1 Bf4
                               5.Be6+ Kf8 6.Rg1 h6 7.gxh6 Rxh6 {-70}
 378594762 14:43.6   0.49 12t+ 1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.Kb1 Bf4 4.Rg1 Rd8 5.Rg4
                               Nd2+ 6.Ka1 Kf8
 426556170 16:38.0   0.49 12t  1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.Kb1 Bf4 4.Rg1 Rd8 5.Rg4
                               Nd2+ 6.Ka1 Kf8
 426556170 16:38.0   0.49 12u. 1.Re2 Nc4 2.Bd4 Bxh2 3.Kb1 Bf4 4.Rg1 Rd8 5.Rg4
                               Nd2+ 6.Ka1 Kf8
426556170 Nodes, 35.59% Leavenodes, 427414 Nodes/sec
317862398 eval, 38.28% score, 1375297577 genmoves, 15.17% captures le 357/255
ext: pawn 98221, rcp 998556, chk 11527830, repchk 2637336, null 6179, prune 2399
6640
htable: 343333077 store, 0 rejected, 417633699 probe, 21.6% f/p, 26.3% f/s
entries 2666664 age 1 renew 0
egtb probes 0, found 0 max_depth 36
white ( 1): Re2
black ( 1):



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