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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