Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:51:52 10/23/01
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On October 23, 2001 at 13:12:38, Andrew Williams wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My program lost this game against a crafty clone on ICC recently:
>
>[Event "ICS rated blitz match"]
>[Site "204.178.125.65"]
>[Date "2001.10.21"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "MoonShot"]
>[Black "PostModernist"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[WhiteElo "2859"]
>[BlackElo "2772"]
>[TimeControl "600+2"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 e6 4. e4 Bb4 5. Bd3 d5 6. e5 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Nd5 8.
>Ne2 b6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd3 Be7 11. Bd2 Bb7 12. Qg3 Kh8 13. Ne4 Ba6 14. Rac1
>Bxc4 15. Rxc4 Qd7 16. Bg5 Na6 17. Bxe7 Nxe7 18. Nd6 Nc7 19. Rfc1 Rad8 20.
>Qf3 Ne8 21. Ne4 Kg8 22. Qh3 a5 23. a4 Nc7 24. Qg4 Kh8 25. Qh5 Kg8 26. R1c3
>Qd5 27. Nf6+ gxf6 28. Rg3+ Kh8 29. Qh6 Ng6 30. Rh3
>{PostModernist resigns} 1-0
>
>
>The move 27.Nf6+ wins everything immediately. MoonShot (crafty 18.12
>on a K7 1.33GHz) found that in 14 seconds (albeit with hash-tables
>already full). With some fiddling about with null move rules, PM can
>find it in 37 seconds from a "standing start" (K7 1.2GHz). I'd be
>interested to know how other programs do on this.
>
>[D]3r1rk1/2n1nppp/1pp1p3/p2qP2Q/P1RPN3/2R5/1P2NPPP/6K1 w - - bm Nf6
>
>
>Regards
>
>Andrew
Chessmaster 2003 (yep, a pre-alpha version) finds Nf6+ in 1 second on my
PIII-600:
Time Depth Score Positions Moves
0:00 1/3 -0.53 1825 1.Qh4 Ng6 2.Qg4 Nxe5 3.Nf6+ Kh8
4.Nxd5 Nxg4
0:00 1/3 -0.51 2251 1.Qf3 Qxe5 2.Re3
0:00 1/3 -0.40 2563 1.Qg4 Qxe5 2.Re3
0:00 1/3 0.15 3128 1.Ng5 h6 2.Nf4 Qd7
0:00 1/3 0.30 3599 1.Nd2 c5 2.Rf3 Ng6
0:00 1/4 0.58 10761 1.Nd2 c5 2.Rh3 h6 3.Rf3
0:00 2/5 0.47 28873 1.Nd2 c5 2.Rh3 h6 3.Qg4 Nf5
0:01 2/5 4.97 61949 1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.Rg3+ Ng6 3.Rh3 Nh4
4.Qxh4 Rfe8 5.exf6 Qf5 6.Qg3+ Qg6
7.Qxc7
0:02 2/6 11.24 162916 1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.Rg3+ Kh8 3.Qh6 Ng6
4.Rh3 Qxg2+ 5.Kxg2 Nf4+ 6.Nxf4
Rg8+ 7.Rg3 Ne8 8.Rxc6 fxe5 9.Rxg8+
Kxg8 10.dxe5
0:06 3/7 13.41 514809 1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.Rg3+ Ng6 3.Rh3 Nh4
4.Qxh4 Qe4 5.Qxe4 f5 6.Qh4 h6 7.Qxh6
0:17 3/8 16.47 1697869 1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.Rg3+ Kh8 3.Qh6 Ng6
4.Rh3 Qxg2+ 5.Kxg2 Nf4+ 6.Nxf4
Rg8+ 7.Kf1 Rg7 8.exf6 Rdg8 9.fxg7+
Rxg7 10.Rxc6
jm
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