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Subject: Re: Nice bishop sacrifice

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:28:33 01/28/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 17:13:13, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On January 28, 2002 at 16:23:37, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>Does any program - with the exception of GambitTiger2,
>>Junior7 and TheKing312X - find the very nice winning move 29...Bxg3!!
>>
>>[D]3rr1k1/5pp1/1pR4p/p2nb2q/P1Q5/BN3PP1/1P3PKP/4R3 b - - 0 29
>
>I'm testing it with Fritz 7b on a 1.2 GHz Athlon.  It took about 11.5 minutes
>for it to choose ...Bxg3 as best, and 29 minutes to get a score better than 0.00
>(it's at 0.22 for Black so far).
>
>If it really does win in all variations, ...Bxg3 may be the strongest one ever
>played in a real game by a piece of software you can buy on sale at your local
>store for US$20!


At 46 minutes, Fritz 7b sees that ...Bxg3 puts Black ahead by 1.07 pawns.  It's
still looking at ...Bxg3 at depth 17.




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