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Subject: Re: Can your engine find Nd5?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:30:21 09/08/01

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On September 07, 2001 at 16:12:50, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>While analyzing a game between Shirov and Polgar I came across this position..
>
>[D]rnb2bk1/1pqnr2p/p2pp1P1/6PB/4P3/2N1B3/PPP4P/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 1
>
>
>Fritz and most others keep wanting to do gxh7 but the actual move that was
>played was Nd5 and shows a +3 pawn lead after a couple minutes of searching.
>
>Let me know what you guys can come up with...

Junior7 on p200 needs a long time to find at depth 18 that Nd5 is 2.76 pawns
advantage when gxh7+ is only 2.75 pawns advantage


New position
rnb2bk1/1pqnr2p/p2pp1P1/6PB/4P3/2N1B3/PPP4P/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Junior 7:

1.gxh7+ Rxh7 2.g6 Rg7
  +-  (1.44)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
1.Qf3!
  +-  (1.47)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
  +-  (1.71)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  38kN
1.gxh7+ Rxh7 2.Qf3 d5 3.exd5 Bc5 4.g6 Rg7 5.Rae1 Ne5 6.Qf6 exd5 7.Nxd5
  +-  (1.90)   Depth: 9   00:00:02  295kN
  +-  (1.90)   Depth: 12   00:00:18  2503kN
1.Qf3 Bg7 2.gxh7+ Kh8 3.Bg6 Nc6 4.Qh5 Nce5 5.Be8 Qc4
  +-  (2.05)   Depth: 12   00:00:21  2877kN
  +-  (2.16)   Depth: 17   01:07:50  499508kN
1.gxh7+ Rxh7 2.Bg6 Rh4 3.Qf3 Qd8
  +-  (2.36)   Depth: 17   01:29:13  664289kN
  +-  (2.75)   Depth: 18   04:28:12  2020096kN
1.Nd5 exd5 2.Qxd5+ Kh8 3.gxh7 Rxh7 4.Bg6 Bg7 5.Bxh7 Qd8 6.Bf5 Ne5 7.Qb3 Nbc6
8.Rad1 Bxf5 9.exf5
  +-  (2.76)   Depth: 18   06:48:09  3096484kN
  +-  (2.76)   Depth: 18   06:48:09  3096484kN

Uri



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