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Subject: Re: One of my favorites..!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:39:53 03/29/02

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On March 29, 2002 at 15:54:08, Art Basham wrote:

>Here white's best move is Bg7..!
>(with the threat of 2. Qxh7+...and mate by the rook at h8...
>
>
>[D]1r2r1k1/3b1p1p/p4PpB/2qPp3/p1P1R2Q/P7/6PP/5R1K w - -
>
>Believe it or not, some engines miss this completely and rather play
>something like Bc1..etc. ???

Beowulf took 14.5 seconds on an AMD 950 MHz machine.

Position 1 - White to play
--------------------------
ID =
FEN = 1r2r1k1/3b1p1p/p4PpB/2qPp3/p1P1R2Q/P7/6PP/5R1K w - -

. r . . r . k .
. . . b . p . p
p . . . . P p B
. . q P p . . .
p . P . R . . Q
P . . . . . . .
. . . . . . P P
. . . . . R . K

Current Position = 0.58
Number of Possible Moves = 36

  6     98      88      79497   Bc1 a5 Qf2 Rec8 Qxc5 Rxc5
  7    118     184     180300   Bc1 h5 Qf2 Rbc8 Bb2 Bf5 Qxc5 Rxc5
  8     94     396     420473   Bc1 h5 Qf2 Qxf2 Rxf2 Bf5 Rh4 e4
  9    113    1038    1110972   Bc1 h5 Qg5 Rb3 Qh6 Qf8 Qxf8+ Kxf8 c5 Rd3
  9    123!   1448    1555074   Bg7 h5 Qg5 Rb3 Qh6 Qb6 Rfe1 Rb1 Rxb1 Qxb1+
  9    588    2554    2711402   Bg7 Bg4 Rxg4 h5 Ra1 Qxa3 Qe1 Qc5 Rxa4 hxg4
 10    586    4907    5283324   Bg7 h5 Qg5 Qf2 Ree1 Qc5 Qg4 hxg4 d6
 11    603    9748   10947729   Bg7 Bg4 Rxg4 h5 Qg5 Qf2 Qc1 Qe2 Rh4 Rb2 g3 Qd3
Rf2

Search Time : 999.0 Seconds
Total Nodes Searched   : 95521440  (84.8% Qui)
Total Nodes Evaluated  : 80995522
Cuts       : Delta 19222644  : SEE     9400726  : Mate          0
           : Razor  5045011  : Eval    43111935
Extensions : Check  3669449  : OneRep   631520  : CMThreat 119043
           : Pawn    560266  : Recap    296138  : RevCheck 244444
Hash Stores (Size) : 6014980  (2097143)
Hash Probes (Hits) : 55812193  (4685047)
EGTB Probes (Hits) : 0  (0)
Move Ordering      : 55.4%
Best Move = Bg7
--Answer: Bg7    ** Correct **
Time To Solution = 14.48 sec
Correct So Far : 1/1



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