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Subject: Re: Some impressions from Round 4

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:25:10 08/20/01

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On August 20, 2001 at 13:00:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 20, 2001 at 12:12:01, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Some comments on the games of Gandalf, Tiger and Rebel:
>>
>>Quest - Gandalf 1:0
>>-------------------
>>Gandalf made an interesting piece sac, but followed up
>>incorrectly (Bxb2? was bad, b4! by Black is unclear).
>>After that Quest had nu trouble to win with the extra
>>piece. One by one Gandalf's pawns dropped off.
>>
>>Junior - Tiger
>>--------------
>>A sharp opening in which Junior came out of book with
>>a minus score. Unfortunately Tiger played its first move
>>out of book very quickly and it was a very bad one. See
>>f7-f5?? Where h5! would be OK for Black.
>
>It seems that gambittiger cannot find h5 and the problem is lack of knowledge
>and not playing too fast.
>
>Maybe I am wrong and the tiger that played in the tournament is better and can
>find h5.
>
>Gambit tiger after more than 20 minutes on PIII800(48 Mbytes hash tables) still
>likes f5
>
>Junior 7 - Tiger
>r2qk2r/4bp1p/p5p1/np6/3pb1N1/5P2/PP4PP/RNBQR1K1 b kq - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Gambit Tiger 2.0:
>
>17...f5 18.Ne5 Bb7 19.Bh6 Nc6 20.Bg7 Rg8 21.Nxc6 Bxc6 22.Bxd4
>  ³  (-0.26)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  89kN
>17...f5 18.Bh6 Qb6 19.Nd2 Nc4 20.Nxc4 bxc4 21.Nf2 Bd3 22.Nxd3 cxd3
>  =  (-0.10)   Depth: 9   00:00:04  886kN
>17...f5 18.Nh6 Bxb1 19.Rxb1 d3 20.Bd2 Nc4 21.Bc3 Rf8 22.Re6 Qd7
>  =  (0.12)   Depth: 10   00:00:07  1610kN
>17...f5 18.Bh6 Nc4 19.Bg7 Rg8 20.Bxd4 Rf8 21.Na3 Nxa3 22.bxa3 Bc2 23.Qxc2 Qxd4+
>24.Nf2
>  =  (0.08)   Depth: 11   00:00:18  3897kN
>17...f5 18.Ne5 Bb7 19.Bh6 Rg8 20.Na3 Qd5 21.Nc2 Nc4 22.Nxc4 Qxc4 23.Nxd4 Qc7
>  =  (0.04)   Depth: 12   00:00:46  9934kN
>17...f5 18.Nh6 Bxb1 19.Rxb1 d3 20.Kh1 Nc6 21.Bd2 Qd5 22.Bc3 d2 23.Qxd2 Qxd2
>24.Bxd2 Kf8
>  =  (0.20)   Depth: 13   00:03:48  50835kN
>17...f5 18.Nh6 Bxb1 19.Rxb1 Kf8 20.Qe2 d3 21.Qe6 Qd4+ 22.Re3 Qf6 23.Qxf6+ Bxf6
>24.Rxd3 Nc4 25.b3 Ne5 26.Ba3+ Kg7
>  =  (0.24)   Depth: 14   00:04:23  59101kN
>17...f5 18.Nh6 Bxb1 19.Rxb1 Kf8 20.Bf4 Qb6 21.Rxe7 Kxe7 22.Qe1+ Kd7 23.Qe5 Nc4
>24.Qg7+ Kc6 25.Rc1 d3+ 26.Kf1
>  =  (0.20)   Depth: 15   00:06:34  89911kN
>
>(Blass, Tel-aviv 20.08.2001)
>
>
>Uri


Crafty likes f5 for black, but believes white is winning (score = +1.01 after 12
plies)  At depth=12, after that 1.01 score, it finds h5 is better, but the score
only drops to +.93, which still looks bad for black...

H5 takes 1 minute to find on my quad xeon.

Black still may well be lost.



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