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Subject: Re: One of my favorites..!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:59:55 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. ???

Phalanx is quick to see the degree of the devastation:

1r2r1k1/3b1p1p/p4PpB/2qPp3/p1P1R2Q/P7/6PP/5R1K w - -
    -> increment adds 1440 s to soft time limit
    -> soft time limit 3154.28 s
    -> hard time limit 41599.9 s
  6 ->   0:00.87    97442   0 turns
  7    185   127   144592  Bh6-c1  Qc5-f8  Qh4-g5  Rb8-c8  Re4-h4  Pe5-e4
  7 ->   0:02.11   245217   0 turns
  8    211   678   525657  Bh6-c1  Qc5-f8  Qh4-g5  Rb8-b1  Re4xe5  Qf8xa3
                           Re5xe8  Bd7xe8
  8    216   914   657982  Bh6-g7  !
  8    271  1112   779429  Bh6-g7  !!
  8    306  1343   893797  Bh6-g7  Ph7-h5  Qh4-g5  Qc5-f2  Qg5-c1  Qf2-a2
  8 ->   0:16.94  1043745   1 turn
  9    366  1892  1295967  Bh6-g7  !!
  9    506  2248  1903008  Bh6-g7  Bd7-g4  Re4xg4  Ph7-h5  Bg7-h6  Kg8-h8
                           Rg4-g3  Rb8-b2  Rf1-d1
  9 ->   0:23.30  2102319   0 turns
 10    510  2748  2903707  Bh6-g7  Bd7-g4  Re4xg4  Ph7-h5  Rg4-g5
 10 ->   0:30.26  3358478   0 turns
 11    570  4137  5300524  Bh6-g7  !!
 11    837  6236  8936379  Bh6-g7  Ph7-h5  Qh4-g5  Qc5-f2  Re4-e1  Qf2-f4
                           Rf1xf4  Pe5xf4  Re1-d1  Rb8-b3
 11 ->   1:06.93  9961240   0 turns
 12    897  9948 15992559  Bh6-g7  !!
 12    897 10536 16829595  Bh6-g7  Ph7-h5
 12 ->   1:56.74 18848773   0 turns
 13    957 17860 29670851  Bh6-g7  !!
 13   1367 36805 61159599  Bh6-g7  Bd7-g4  Re4xg4  Ph7-h5  Rg4-g5  Rb8-b1
                           Rf1xb1
 13 ->   6:22.29 64494512   0 turns
 14   1398 57696 99085865  Bh6-g7  Ph7-h5  Qh4-g5  Qc5-f2  Re4-e1  Qf2-f4
                           Rf1xf4
 14 ->  10:10.88 105661091   0 turns
 15   1458 86530 153596239  Bh6-g7  !!
 15   1460 104180 188828815  Bh6-g7  Ph7-h5  Qh4-g5  Qc5-f2  Re4-e1  Qf2-f4
                           Rf1xf4  Pe5xf4  Re1-a1  Rb8-c8



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