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Subject: Re: A Move By Capablanca - 1928

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:52:55 01/06/02

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On January 06, 2002 at 09:10:54, Robert Basham wrote:

>Here black played Bf3..!
>
>[D]2kr3B/1bpqb2p/p2p1p2/4n3/p7/2P5/PP3PPP/RN1Q1RK1 b - -
>
>Rebel10 finds it in 14 sec. at just 7 ply.
>
>Also, Hiarcs4 found it in just 6 ply...
>
>It's amazing how many of the computors are "thinking" like the grandmasters...
>
>Some computors play RxB, or Nf3, or Qh3, but sorry, no credit for this!
>
>Robert

It appears that both Bf3 and Nf3+ are both strong. But CM8000 finally settles on
Bf3 after a little less than five minutes on my PIII-733:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/4	-2.15	4420		1...Rxh8 2. Na3 Rg8 3. f3 d5
0:00	2/5	-2.13	25403		1...Rxh8 2. f4 Rg8 3. Rf2 Qg4 4.
					Na3
0:01	2/6	-2.15	73431		1...Rxh8 2. f3 d5 3. f4 Bc5+ 4.
					Kh1 Nc4 5. Qe2
0:01	2/6	-4.63	122644		1...Qh3 2. f3 Rg8 3. Rf2 Nxf3+
					4. Kf1 Nxh2+ 5. Ke1 Qe3+ 6. Qe2
					Qc1+ 7. Qd1 Qxd1+ 8. Kxd1 Rxh8
					9. Nd2 Ng4
0:03	3/7	-4.34	271016		1...Qh3 2. f3 Rg8 3. Rf2 Nxf3+
					4. Kf1 Nxh2+ 5. Ke1 Qe3+ 6. Qe2
					Qc1+ 7. Qd1 Qxd1+ 8. Kxd1 Rxh8
					9. Nd2 Ng4 10. Rf4
0:09	3/8	-4.56	998588		1...Qh3 2. f3 Rg8 3. Rf2 Nxf3+
					4. Kf1 Nxh2+ 5. Ke1 Qe3+ 6. Qe2
					Qc1+ 7. Qd1 Qxd1+ 8. Kxd1 Rxh8
					9. Nd2 Ng4 10. Rf4 Ne3+ 11. Ke2
0:17	3/8	-5.85	1790289		1...Bf3 2. gxf3 Qh3 3. Qd5 Nxf3+
					4. Qxf3 Qxf3 5. Bg7 Qg4+ 6. Kh1
					Qxg7 7. Nd2
0:20	4/9	-6.81	2023026		1...Bf3 2. gxf3 Qh3 3. Qd5 Nxf3+
					4. Qxf3 Qxf3 5. Re1 Rxh8 6. Kf1
					Qh3+ 7. Ke2 Re8
0:58	4/9	-7.25	6363442		1...Nf3+ 2. Kh1 Rg8 3. Nd2 Nxd2
					4. f3 Nxf1 5. Bxf6 Ng3+ 6. hxg3
					Bxf6 7. Kh2 Re8
1:49	4/10	-7.15	12235500	1...Nf3+ 2. Kh1 Rg8 3. Nd2 Nxd2
					4. f3 Nxf1 5. Bxf6 Ng3+ 6. hxg3
					Bxf6 7. Kh2 Qb5
4:46	4/10	-7.73	32359534	1...Bf3 2. Nd2 Bxd1 3. Bxf6 Bxf6
					4. Raxd1 Qc6 5. Kh1 Nc4 6. Nxc4
					Qxc4 7. a3 Re8
6:29	5/11	-7.96	44246778	1...Bf3 2. Nd2 Bxd1 3. Raxd1 Rxh8
					4. f4 Nd3 5. Nc4 Qe6 6. Rxd3 Qxc4
23:53	6/12	-8.33	167788208	1...Bf3 2. Nd2 Bxd1 3. Rfxd1 Rxh8
					4. Nf1 Qb5 5. Rd2 Nc4 6. Re2 Bd8
					7. Rae1 Nxb2

jm




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