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Subject: Re: interesting game/position

Author: Peter Rosendahl

Date: 10:59:17 03/17/02

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>[D] r3k1r1/pR1b1p2/2n1pQpp/3pP3/8/2P2N2/P1PKB1qP/5R2 w q -
>
>Here Rxd7! is better than h4. Crafty finds this in under a minute,
>Pharaon in about 2 1/2 minutes. Arasan 5.4 takes over 4 minutes
>(Athlon 1.4 GHz).
>
>Arasan 6.0 (latest build) can't find it in 10 minutes - maybe
>some bug, I'm not sure.
>

I think big check extensions help a lot here. With the current
version of my engine it takes ~2 min. to find it (Athlon 900 MHz):

RESP> sb r3k1r1/pR1b1p2/2n1pQpp/3pP3/8/2P2N2/P1PKB1qP/5R2 w q -
Clearing Hash ... OK.
Clearing PHash ... OK.
Setting up FEN position ... OK.
RESP>
RESP> a
 1    0.01  -7.05         1 1.Rh1 Qxh1 {->q}
 1    0.01  -1.91         1 1.Rg1!!
 1    0.01  -1.87         1 1.Rd1
 1    0.01  -1.82         1 1.Rfb1
 1    0.01  -1.78         6 1.Nd4
 1    0.01  -1.51         6 1.Ke1
 1.   0.01  -1.51         6 1.Ke1
 2    0.01  -1.57        44 1.Ke1 a5
 2.   0.02  -1.57       117 1.Ke1 a5
 3    0.02  -1.48       357 1.Ke1 Rf8 2.a4
 3.   0.03  -1.48      1110 1.Ke1 Rf8 2.a4
 4    0.03  -1.54      2058 1.Ke1 Nd8 2.Rb4 Nc6
 4.   0.05  -1.54      3831 1.Ke1 Nd8 2.Rb4 Nc6
 5    0.06  -1.54      5625 1.Ke1 Nd8 2.Rb1 a5 3.a3
 5+   0.11  -1.09     11657 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Rbb1 a5 3.a3
 5.   0.19  -1.10     34179 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Rbb1 a5 3.a3
 6+   0.20  -0.65     36090 1.Nd4
 6    0.33  -0.61     88344 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8
 6.   0.40  -0.61     98517 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8
 7    0.47  -0.61    107524 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 {->tt}
 7.   0.63  -0.61    133531 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 {->tt}
 8    0.74  -0.80    148689 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 Rb8
 8.   1.73  -0.80    309119 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 Rb8
 9+   2.15  -0.35    373448 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 Rb8 6.a4 {->tt}
 9.  20.82  -0.36   8069918 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 Rb8 6.a4 {->tt}
10+  24.59   0.09   8560434 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 Rb8
10.  91.96   0.08  31573913 1.Nd4 Nd8 2.Nc6 Qg5+ 3.Qxg5 hxg5 4.Nxd8 Rxd8
                            5.Rxa7 Rb8
11   95.05   0.26  31999352 1.Nd4 Qg5+ 2.Qxg5 hxg5 3.Nxc6 Bxc6 4.Rbxf7 a5
                            5.R7f6 Ke7 6.Rg1 {->tt}
11+ 111.56   0.53  34310177 1.Rxd7 Qg5+ 2.Qxg5 hxg5
11  125.84   2.38  36620372 1.Rxd7!! Kxd7 2.Qxf7+ Ne7 3.Nd4 Rac8 4.Qxe6+ Kd8
                            5.Rf7 Qg5+ 6.Kd3 Qh4 7.Rxe7 Qe4+ 8.Kd2 Qf4+ 9.Ke1
                            Qh4+
11. 127.66   2.38  36839257 1.Rxd7 Kxd7 2.Qxf7+ Ne7 3.Nd4 Rac8 4.Qxe6+ Kd8
                            5.Rf7 Qg5+ 6.Kd3 Qh4 7.Rxe7 Qe4+ 8.Kd2 Qf4+ 9.Ke1
                            Qh4+
12  135.32   2.33  37851199 1.Rxd7 Kxd7 2.Qxf7+ Ne7 3.Nd4 Rgf8 4.Qxe6+ Ke8
                            5.Rxf8+ Kxf8 6.Qf6+ Kg8 7.Qxe7 Qxh2 8.Qe6+ Kg7
                            9.Qf6+ Kh7 10.Qf7+ Kh8 11.Qxg6 Rb8 12.e6 {->tt}
12. 157.50   2.33  40584558 1.Rxd7 Kxd7 2.Qxf7+ Ne7 3.Nd4 Rgf8 4.Qxe6+ Ke8
                            5.Rxf8+ Kxf8 6.Qf6+ Kg8 7.Qxe7 Qxh2 8.Qe6+ Kg7
                            9.Qf6+ Kh7 10.Qf7+ Kh8 11.Qxg6 Rb8
13  209.80   2.34  48329479 1.Rxd7 Kxd7 2.Qxf7+ Ne7 3.Nd4 Rgf8 4.Qxe6+ Ke8
                            5.Rxf8+ Kxf8 6.Qf6+ Kg8 7.Qxe7 Qxh2 8.Qe6+ Kg7
                            9.Qxd5 Rb8 10.Ne6+ Kh7 11.Ke1

Peter



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