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Subject: Re: The Best Move is ...???

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:50:40 03/12/02

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On March 12, 2002 at 14:30:36, Art Basham wrote:

>In this position, the best move for white is not Rd3, not Qg4+, and not
>Nh5...etc.
>
>The best move is Qh5...!
>
>See which one of your chess programs can find it first...
>
>[D]r1b2rk1/p3bp1p/4pp2/n3p3/3qNP2/1BR3N1/PP4PP/3Q1R1K w - -
>
>Keep it simple! White plays Qh5 for a kingside attack!
>
>(Some of the new engines I have been testing in
>Chess Arena do not find it).
>
>On my slow computor -- about 133Mhz,
> Fritz 5.32 finds it in just 34 sec.
>but Fritz 7 takes  almost 2 min...!
>I do not know why Fritz 7 should take that much longer than Fritz 5.32.

Chessmaster 9000 (Alpha version) takes 7 seconds on my PIII-600:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	0.42	1834		1.Rc7 Re8 2.Qg4+ Kf8 3.Rd1
0:00	1/4	0.54	6895		1.Rc7 f5 2.Qxd4 exd4 3.Rxe7 fxe4
					4.Nxe4 Nxb3 5.axb3
0:01	2/5	-0.29	40043		1.Rc7 Qxd1 2.Bxd1 Bd8 3.Rc5 Ba6
0:01	2/5	-0.10	84160		1.Qg4+ Kh8 2.Rd1 Qb6 3.f5 Rg8 4.Qf3
					Ba6
0:02	2/5	0.21	110990		1.Nh5 Kh8 2.Nhxf6 Nxb3 3.Rd3 Qxb2
					4.Rxb3
0:03	2/6	0.47	158165		1.Nh5 Kh8 2.Nhxf6 Qxd1 3.Bxd1 Ba6
					4.Rh3
0:04	2/6	0.55	293781		1.Qg4+ Kh8 2.Ne2 Qd8 3.Rd1 f5 4.Rxd8
					fxg4 5.Rxf8+ Bxf8 6.fxe5 Nxb3 7.Rxb3
0:07	2/6	0.91	490720		1.Qh5 Rd8 2.Ne2 Qb4 3.Rg3+ Kh8
					4.Qxf7
0:10	3/7	2.58	684874		1.Qh5 Kh8 2.Nxf6 Bxf6 3.Bc2 e4
					4.Bxe4 Qxe4 5.Nxe4 Bxc3 6.Nxc3 Ba6
0:23	3/8	4.47	1616943		1.Qh5 Qxc3 2.bxc3 Ba6 3.Bc2 f5
					4.Ng5 h6 5.Qxh6
0:51	4/9	5.62	3781871		1.Qh5 Qxc3 2.bxc3 Bb7 3.fxe5 Bxe4
					4.Nxe4 fxe5 5.Ng5 h6 6.Rxf7
2:55	4/10	7.07	13758895	1.Qh5 Qxc3 2.bxc3 Kg7 3.Qh4 Rg8
					4.fxe5 Kh8 5.Nxf6 Rg7 6.Ba4

jm




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