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Subject: Re: Good test move

Author: John Merlino

Date: 17:21:19 04/22/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 19:49:04, Art Basham wrote:

>white plays Qc3..!
>
>[D]1n1r1rk1/ppq2ppp/3p2b1/3B1NP1/4PB1R/bP2P2P/P1P5/3KQ1R1 w - - bm Qc3; id
>Quick-01;
>
>I wonder what program can find this!

Chessmaster 9000 (default personality, 32MB hash) finds it in 2:22 on a PIII-600
(wish I had a faster computer):

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:02	2/5	0.31	85392		1.Bh2 Na6 2.Nd4 Nb4 3.Qf2 Nxa2
0:00	1/3	0.36	1544		1.b4 a5 2.bxa5 Na6
0:00	1/3	0.46	1832		1.Nd4 Na6 2.Bh2 Rc8
0:00	1/3	0.50	2396		1.Qd2 Rc8 2.b4
0:00	1/4	0.78	7189		1.Qd2 Bb2 2.Nxd6 Rxd6 3.Bxf7+ Qxf7
					4.Bxd6
0:00	2/5	0.95	32939		1.Qd2 Na6 2.Qd4 Bxf5 3.exf5 Nb4
					4.Bc4 Nxa2 5.Qxa7
0:01	2/6	0.93	93567		1.Qd2 Nc6 2.Qc3 Bxf5 3.exf5 Bb4
					4.Qd3 Qa5 5.f6
0:02	2/6	0.98	136854		1.c4 Nc6 2.Qc3 Bxf5 3.exf5 Bb4
					4.Qc2 Ne5 5.g6
0:03	3/7	0.98	242261		1.c4 Nc6 2.Qc3 Bxf5 3.exf5 Bb4
					4.Qc2 Ne5 5.g6
0:11	3/8	1.23	800936		1.c4 Bb2 2.Qb4 Bxf5 3.exf5 Nc6
					4.Qd2 Be5 5.g6 hxg6 6.fxg6 Bxf4
					7.exf4
0:36	4/9	1.23	2690330		1.c4 Bb2 2.Qb4 Bxf5 3.exf5 Nc6
					4.Qd2 Be5 5.g6 hxg6 6.fxg6 Bxf4
					7.exf4
2:22	4/9	6.56	11182719	1.Qc3 Qxc3 2.Ne7+ Kh8 3.Nxg6+ fxg6
					4.Rxh7+ Kxh7 5.Rg4 Rxf4 6.Rxf4
					Qa1+ 7.Ke2 Qf1+ 8.Kxf1 Rf8 9.Rxf8
					Nc6 10.Rf7

jm



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