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Subject: Re: Deep tactics/King safety (Testposition)

Author: Benny Antonsson

Date: 04:04:21 11/22/01

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On November 21, 2001 at 13:14:48, Peter Berger wrote:

>[D]r1br4/1pq2p1p/p3pnkB/8/8/1BP2Q2/PP3PPb/R3R2K b - - 0 18 am Nd5 bm Nh5 ;id
>"Adams-Dreev,Wijk an Zee 1996"
>
>This one is very tough. I analyzed it for several hours with the electronical
>friends and they seemed to have a very hard time.
>
>Maybe you will have to give your engine some time to find Nd5 before you give it
>even more to avoid it again :).
>
>Any engine that can solve this ?
>
>To get an idea what is going on, here is what the GMs played:
>
>18...Nd5 19.Rad1 f5 20.Bc1 Bd6 21.Bxd5 exd5 22.Rxd5 +-
>
>Especially 20.Bc1 seems to be hard but I believe it's the pure depth which is
>the biggest problem.
>
>Regards,
>pete
>
>PS: Btw, 18...Nd5 is in Fritz 7 tournament book ;-)

This is the output from Deamon running on a PIII 800MHz with 64MB hashtables:

D  Score   Time  Nodes     PV
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.  2.40   0.02  156       Bd7
2.  2.33   0.03  1795      Kxh6 Qxf6+
3.  2.49   0.08  14860     Be5 Be3 Bd7
4.  2.17   0.16  36393     Be5 Be3 Nd5 Kg1
5.  1.93   0.68  256185    Nd5 Bd2 Bf4 Bxf4 Nxf4
6.  1.77   1.82  736698    Nh5 Be3 Bf4 Bc2+ Kh6 Kg1 <HT>
7.  1.28   5.74  2498738   Nd5 Bc1 Kg7 c4 Nb6
8.  1.25  15.47  7566484   Nd5 Bc1 Kg7 g3 Bxg3 fxg3 Kg8 Bh6
9.  1.13  61.65  32572346  Nd5 Bc1 Kg7 g3 Bxg3 fxg3 Kg8 Qg4+ Kh8 Bf4



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