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Subject: Re: Two Mate Positions

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:13:45 08/21/01

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On August 21, 2001 at 17:25:34, Peter Berger wrote:

>On August 21, 2001 at 13:52:01, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>I tried your positions with the program "Der Bringer" (
>http://www.reubold.onlinehome.de) by Gerrit Reubold on an Athlon 1333 computer.
>
>>Two mates from an actual game postition with equal material on the board.
>>The first one may not be difficult to find for playing programs. It is a
>>mate in 9 or better.
>>
>> r2q1r1k/1pbbn2B/p1n1p1p1/3p2NQ/1P1p1P2/P1P1B3/6PP/R4RK1 w - - 0 18
>
>This one is very easy as you expected.
>
>0:00:05.2  ( 9/28)    1294302   8.69  h7xg6   (Mat=-235,50=0)
>0:00:11.4  ( 9/36)    2801304   Matt in 9  h7xg6  h8-g7  h5-h7  g7-f6  g2-g4
>
>>
>>The second one is mate in 19 or better. This positions occured 2 moves
>>earlier in the game.
>>
>>[D] r2q1rk1/1pbbn1pp/p1n1p3/3p2N1/1P1p1P2/P1PBB3/6PP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 16
>>
>>Yace cannot find this mate, without help by first analysing some lines.
>
>This is called cheating Dieter, isn't it ;-)) ?
>
>OK - without any tricks :) :
>
>0:14:03.6  (13/42)   222073875   18.88  d3xh7  g8-h8  d1-h5  f8-f6
>(Mat=-335,50=3)
>0:17:04.9  (14/42)   268965501   19.28  d3xh7   (Mat=-335,50=0)
>0:32:29.9  (14/46)   517708825   19.68  d3xh7   (Mat=-335,50=0)
>1:17:51.5  (14/46)   1269029346   20.42  d3xh7  g8-h8  d1-h5  g7-g6
>(Mat=-335,50=0)
>
>Not solved - I somehow expect this should be solveable in less than 10 hours for
>Bringer at ply 15 but this remains to be tested ( hardware advances are a thrill
>btw - a nice potential bug : what will Bringer do after about 11 hours when the
>internal node counter in the GUI can't display the positions searched anymore ?!
>) .
>
>
>>With French Winawer, I have seen quite a few short computer chess games,
>>also often, losses by Yace. But I have also seen fast wins for Black.
>>Chester expected 15. fxe5. I think, 15. Ng5 is already winning, but Yace could
>>not see it yet in the game. Actually, the two moves were rather close in score,
>>which also shows, that there can be quite some luck involved.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Dieter
>
>You won't see the real problem with the Winawer against computers.
>
>The Winawer might or might not be a good opening against other silicon GMs -
>this is probably mainly a book tuning issue or luck . I think if you avoid the
>positions with the penetrating queen on g7,h7 this should be very playable
>against computers.
>
>Problem is : all of them don't understand the positions resulting from the main
>variations well.

There are a lot of chess programs
I think it is better not to say all of them because there may be one that
understands it.

Uri



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