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Subject: Re: Good Move by Kasparov

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:57:23 03/30/02

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On March 30, 2002 at 09:47:29, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On March 30, 2002 at 09:22:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On March 30, 2002 at 09:13:26, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>Hmm, must improve...:
>>>depth=8 -1.03 1.Bd3 Bxd3 2.Nxd3 Rd8 3.Rd1 Rd5 4.Be3 Qc6
>>>depth=9 -1.91 1.Bd3 Bxd3 2.Nxd3 Rd8 3.Qc3 Qb5 4.Nb4 Bf6 5.Qe3 Bxb2
>>>
>>>My new version of ChessCraft is blind as a bat, how deep is this line anyway,
>>>I'm not using any extensions other than regular q-search.
>>
>>7 ply (from looking at Sjeng's output)
>
>I don't get it,
>7     -64    57   219161  Bxg6 hxg6 Qe4 Bf8 Qxg6+ Ng7 Qf7+ Kh7 Rfd1 Be2 Qg6+ Kg
>is 11 plies and still not a mate, has the pv been extended internally, I don't
>see this as a mate in fact white is down a bishop for 1 pawn (that's what my
>eval would see right here).
>I suspect the line is deeper than 9 plies.

Sjeng sees the move with a 5 ply search, which gets extended to 7 ply,
and that is enough to play the move.

[D]r3rbk1/pp4n1/1q2p1QB/1b2N3/8/P7/1P3PP1/R2R2K1 b - - 0 0

the line at 5 ply is : Bxg6 hxg6 Qe4 Ng7 Qxg6 Bf8 Rfd1

And Sjeng considers white to be up half a pawn.

--
GCP



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