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Subject: Re: Can your program find Rxg2?

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 05:00:37 04/28/02

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On April 27, 2002 at 18:12:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>The following position is from my last game
>
>[D]6k1/RR4p1/5p1p/4p3/8/P7/4rrPP/3K4 b - - 0 31
>
>I played 31...Rxg2 and after 32.a4 Ra2 my opponent resigned.

on a Celeron 400 Mhz computer

CMLite finds ...Rxg2 in 12 min 17 sec... (approx 29,000,000 positions)

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:03	1/6	-0.71	112253		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Rxg7 Rb2+ 5. Kc1 Rxg2 6. Rxg2
					Rxg2 7. a4 Rxh2
0:05	1/7	-0.62	206589		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Rxg7 Rb2+ 5. Kc1 Rxg2 6. Rxg2
					Rxg2 7. a4 Rxh2 8. a5
0:09	1/8	-0.80	349868		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Ra8+ Kh7 5. Raa7 h5 6. Rxg7+
					Kh6 7. Raf7 Rce2 8. Rh7+ Kg5
0:21	1/9	-0.71	791856		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Rxg7 Rb2+ 5. Kc1 Rfc2+ 6. Kd1
					Rxg2 7. Rxg2 Rxg2 8. a4 Ra2 9.
					Rf7 Rxa4 10. Rxf6
0:44	1/10	-0.65	1669886		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Rxg7 Rb2+ 5. Kc1 Rfc2+ 6. Kd1
					Rxg2 7. Rxg2 Rxg2 8. a4 Rxh2 9.
					Rf7 Rh1+ 10. Kd2
1:25	2/11	-0.69	3332657		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Rxg7 Rb2+ 5. Kc1 Rfc2+ 6. Kd1
					Rxg2 7. Rxg2 Rxg2 8. a4 Ra2 9.
					a5 Kg8 10. a6 f5
3:50	3/12	-0.60	8566773		1...Rd2+ 2. Kc1 Rc2+ 3. Kb1 Kh8
					4. Rxg7 Rb2+ 5. Kc1 Rfc2+ 6. Kd1
					Rxg2 7. Rxg2 Rxg2 8. Rf7 Rf2 9.
					a4 Kg8 10. Rd7 f5
12:17	3/12	-1.45	29353535	1...Rxg2 2. Rxg7+ Rxg7 3. Rxg7+
					Kxg7 4. Kxe2 Kf7 5. a4 Ke7 6. a5
					Kd8 7. Kd3 Kc7 8. Ke4 Kb7 9. h4

>
>After the game he said that he needed one more tempo.
>
>I said that I was lucky because I saw the idea of Rxg7+ that almost win the game
>only after I played 31...Rxg2.
>
>I played 31...Rxg2 fast because the move seemed to be almost forced(I did not
>like the idea of Rd2+ Kc1 and the idea of Ra2 with the double mate threat is
>gone)
>
>I also said in the anlaysis that the best was still 32.Rxg7+ Rxg7 33.Ra8+
>inspite of the fact that white is losing after 33...Kf7 34.Kxe2 Rg2+ because in
>the worst case black will need to sacrifice the rook for the a pawn when the
>black passed pawns are going to be srtronger than the rook.
>
>
>I find that some top programs cannot find 31...Rxg2
>for black because they do not evaluate correctly the pawn endgame.
>
>
>Uri



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