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Subject: Re: A Move By Alekhine....1931

Author: Jorge

Date: 18:37:06 02/18/02

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On February 18, 2002 at 20:41:57, John Merlino wrote:

>On February 18, 2002 at 19:56:47, Bob Basham wrote:
>
>>In this position, Alekhine played ....Rd5, and black went on to win.
>>
>>This turns out to be a good test move, even for portable chess units.
>>
>>The Novag Amber finds 1....Rd5 in just about 40 sec.
>>The old Fidelity Mach III took 2 min, 15 sec. to find it at 5 ply...
>>
>>[D]3r2k1/2p2ppp/p1q5/8/1pP5/1P2b1PK/P1Q1N2P/5R2 b - -
>
>Chessmaster 8000 (default personality) finds Rd5 in less than one second, but
>gives it up in favor of Rd6 after six seconds. It then comes back to Rd5 after
>2:04 (this on my PIII-733)
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/4	-2.23	4993		1...Qh6+ 2. Kg2 Rd2 3. Qf5 Qc6+
>					4. Kh3 f6
>0:00	2/5	-2.26	24184		1...Rd5 2. g4 Rd2 3. Qf5 Qh6+ 4.
>					Kg3 f6
>0:01	2/6	-2.28	65045		1...Rd5 2. g4 Qh6+ 3. Kg3 Qd6+
>					4. Kh3 Rd3 5. Ng3 Rd2
>0:03	3/7	-2.33	199733		1...Rd5 2. g4 Rd2 3. Qf5 f6 4.
>					Re1 Rxa2 5. Qc8+ Kf7
>0:06	3/7	-2.80	449264		1...Rd6 2. Qf5 Rh6+ 3. Kg4 Qe8
>					4. Nf4 Rxh2 5. Nd5 h5+ 6. Kf3 Bd4
>					7. Qe4
>0:11	3/8	-2.94	945280		1...Rd6 2. Qf5 Rh6+ 3. Kg4 Qe8
>					4. Nf4 Rxh2 5. Nd5 h5+ 6. Kf3 Bc5
>					7. Qe4 Qxe4+ 8. Kxe4 Re2+ 9. Kd3
>0:22	4/9	-3.23	2062242		1...Rd6 2. Qf5 Rh6+ 3. Kg4 Qe8
>					4. Qd5 Rxh2 5. Kf3 c6 6. Qd3 Bc5
>					7. Re1 Qe6
>1:06	5/10	-3.27	6941107		1...Rd6 2. Qf5 Rh6+ 3. Kg4 Qe8
>					4. Nf4 Rxh2 5. Nd5 h5+ 6. Kf3 Bc5
>					7. Qe4 Qd7 8. Ne3 Rxa2 9. Rd1
>2:04	5/10	-3.74	12435429	1...Rd5 2. g4 f5 3. g5 g6 4. c5
>					Rxc5 5. Qd3 Bxg5 6. Rg1
>4:20	6/11	-3.63	26297592	1...Rd5 2. g4 f5 3. g5 g6 4. c5
>					Rxc5 5. Qd3 Bxg5 6. Rg1 Rd5
>
>jm

I set this up on my ChessTiger14, but it wants to move  says

00:00:00.0	3.12	10	0	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Bxf4 Rxf4 Rxh2 Rf2 Rxf2 Qxf2 Qe4+
Qf4
00:00:00.1	3.00	7	33575	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Bxf4 Rxf4 Rxh2
00:00:01.3	3.00	8	118099	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Bxf4 Rxf4 Rxh2
00:00:03.5	3.12	9	215355	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Bxf4 Rxf4 Rxh2 Rf2 Rxf2 Qxf2
00:00:09.3	3.46	10	592798	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Rxh2 Nd5 Bc5 Nf4 Bd4
00:00:15.3	3.46	11	1027171	Rd6 Qf5
00:01:21.7	3.72	12	5421005	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Rxh2 Kf3 Bxf4 Kxf4 Rxa2
00:01:27.6	3.72	12	5761941	Rd6 Qf5 Rh6+ Kg4 Qe8 Nf4 Rxh2 Kf3 Bxf4 Kxf4 Rxa2

In favor of black,

jorge



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