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Subject: Re: book bust?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:38:57 05/10/02

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On May 10, 2002 at 22:35:02, Jon Dart wrote:

>There's a known position in the Classical Nimzo-Indian as follows:
>
>[D] r4rk1/p4ppp/2P5/q1pp1b2/4n3/P7/1BQNPPPP/R3KB1R b KQ - -
>
>Crafty has a book line here continuing Rab8 c7. My database shows several games
>with this line, including Rogers-Ward, BCF ch-T 1997-8, a draw. Eliskases played
>d4 against Bololjubow in 1937, another draw. But a search from this position
>gives the continuation Ng3, with advantage to Black:
>
>
>               10     3.31     --   1. ... Ng3
>               10     3.99  -0.98   1. ... Ng3 2. Bc3 Qc7 3. Qb3 Nxh1 4.
>                                    Qxd5 Be6 5. Qe5 Qxe5 6. Bxe5 Rad8
>               10->  10.66  -0.98   1. ... Ng3 2. Bc3 Qc7 3. Qb3 Nxh1 4.
>                                    Qxd5 Be6 5. Qe5 Qxe5 6. Bxe5 Rad8
>               11    13.44     ++   1. ... Ng3!!
>               11->  29.14  -1.37   1. ... Ng3 2. Bc3 Qc7 3. Qb3 Nxh1 4.
>                                    Qxd5 Be6 5. Qe5 Qxe5 6. Bxe5 Rad8
>               12    34.77     --   1. ... Ng3
>               12    37.50  -0.87   1. ... Ng3 2. Qc3 Qxc3 3. Bxc3 Nxh1
>                                    4. g4 Bxg4 5. Bg2 d4 6. Ba5 Rae8 7.
>                                    f3 d3 8. fxg4 Rxe2+
>               12->   1:55  -0.87   1. ... Ng3 2. Qc3 Qxc3 3. Bxc3 Nxh1
>                                    4. g4 Bxg4 5. Bg2 d4 6. Ba5 Rae8 7.
>                                    f3 d3 8. fxg4 Rxe2+
>               13     2:07  -0.87   1. ... Ng3 2. Qc3 Qxc3 3. Bxc3 Nxh1
>                                    4. g4 Bxg4 5. Bg2 d4 6. Ba5 Rae8 7.
>                                    f3 d3 8. fxg4 Rxe2+
>              time=3:20  cpu=99%  mat=3  n=133137602  fh=93%  nps=664k
>              ext-> chk=5470267 cap=361754 pp=602423 1rep=458117 mate=32558
>              predicted=0  nodes=133137602  evals=24036969
>              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
>              hashing-> trans/ref=22%  pawn=6%  used=99%
>
>Arasan and Hiarcs give a similar result, at least at a few minutes' search time.
>Ng3 is surprising, to say the least. Whether it's really good or not, I'm not
>sure.

Phalanx:

r4rk1/p4ppp/2P5/q1pp1b2/4n3/P7/1BQNPPPP/R3KB1R b KQ - -
    -> increment adds 1440 s to soft time limit
    -> soft time limit 3154.28 s
    -> hard time limit 41599.9 s
  5 ->   0:00.59    39276   0 turns
  6     15    87    57406  Ne4-g3  Pe2-e4  Bf5xe4  Qc2-c3  Qa5xc3  Bb2xc3
                           Ng3xh1  Nd2xe4  Pd5xe4
  6 ->   0:01.99   138632   0 turns
  7     55   248   193127  Ne4-g3  Bb2-c3  Bf5xc2
  7 ->   0:03.79   372939   0 turns
  8     55   407   409204  Ne4-g3  ??
  8    -31   493   545391  Ne4-g3  Bb2-c3  Qa5-c7  Qc2-a2  Ng3xh1  Qa2xd5
                           Bf5-e6  Qd5-e5
  8 ->   0:12.93  1658738   0 turns
  9     29  1540  1983694  Ne4-g3  !!
  9     29  1806  2469555  Ne4-g3  Qc2-c3
  9     30  4603  6688416  Ra8-b8  Pg2-g4  Ne4xd2
  9 ->   0:56.12  8290622   1 turn
 10     -3 13269 18823212  Ra8-b8  Pc6-c7  Rb8-b7  Bb2-e5  Rf8-e8  Pg2-g4
                           Re8xe5  Pg4xf5  Rb7xc7  Bf1-h3
 10      2 13648 19409220  Ne4-g3  !
 10      9 14012 20090639  Ne4-g3  Qc2-c3  Qa5xc3  Bb2xc3  Ng3xh1  Pg2-g3
                           Ra8-e8  Bf1-g2  Bf5-d3  Bg2-f3  Re8-e7  Pc6-c7
 10 ->   3:42.41 31495538   1 turn
 11     28 23963 34057580  Ne4-g3  Qc2-c3  Qa5xc3  Bb2xc3  Ng3xh1  Nd2-b3
                           Ra8-c8  Nb3xc5  Rc8xc6  Bc3-d4  Rc6-h6  Bd4-e5
                           Rh6-c6
 11 ->   7:28.13 64426007   0 turns
 12     18 49717 71353565  Ne4-g3  Qc2-c3  Qa5xc3  Bb2xc3  Ng3xh1  Nd2-b3
                           Ra8-c8  Nb3xc5  Rc8xc6  Bc3-d4  Rc6-h6  Bd4-e5
                           Rf8-e8  Be5-f4
 12 ->  25:56.31 204309622   0 turns



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