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Subject: Re: A very difficult tactical position solved by chessmaster 8000(Test)

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:26:55 05/17/02

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On May 17, 2002 at 15:58:53, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>The following position happened in the game GM Cifuentes vs IM Zvjaginsev
>(1995)
>[D]3rr1k1/1b1q1p1p/p2b1npB/2pP4/1p2n3/4N1P1/PPQ1NPBP/R2R2K1 b
>here the GM resigned after 24...Nxf2!! 25.Kxf2 Rxe3!! 26.Bxe3 Ng4+ 27.Kf3 Nxh2+
>28.Kf2 Ng4+ 29.Kf3 Qe6! 30.Bf4 Re8! 31.Qc4 Qe3! 32.Bxe3 Rxe3+ 33.Kxg4 Bc8!
>34.Kg5 h6+! 35.Kxh6 Re5!
>There are many alternative defences all of which fail .On a 700 MHz PC
>it takes CM8000 3 minutes and one second to see the two peice sacrafice.
>Time:3:01      Depth :10   Score :0.34     Positions:13571609
>Moves:Nxf2 Kxf2 Rxe3 Bxe3 Ng4+ Kf3 Nxh2+ Kf2 Ng4+ Kf3 Qe6 Bf4 Bxd5+
>Really CM considers this at ply 8 then changes its mind to Ng4 at ply9 and
>finally finds 24...Nxf2!! at ply 10 at 3:01 and stickes to it.
>Many programs have a hard time finding this for example my program Hiarcs 3
>(from 1994) does not see this after even a very long think.My guess is that
>the chessbase programs wont do good in this position.Please indicate your
>result.

Here is the output from Chessmaster 9000 (Beta version on a PIII-600):

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-0.09	1663		1...Ng4 2.Bxe4 Nxh6 3.Nc4
0:00	1/4	-0.22	7667		1...Ng4 2.Bxe4 Nxh6 3.Nc4 Bc7
0:00	2/5	-0.10	14970		1...Ng4 2.Bxe4 Nxh6 3.Nc4 Bc7 4.Bg2
0:01	2/6	-0.11	48451		1...Ng4 2.Nxg4 Qxg4 3.Nf4 Ng5 4.Rd3
					Bxf4 5.gxf4
0:02	3/7	0.00	152826		1...Ng4 2.Nxg4 Qxg4 3.Nf4 Bxf4
					4.Bxf4 Rxd5 5.Rxd5 Bxd5 6.Re1
0:07	3/8	0.06	443641		1...Ng4 2.Nxg4 Qxg4 3.Nf4 Ng5 4.h3
					Nf3+ 5.Kh1 b3 6.Qxb3
0:12	3/8	0.00	812853		1...Nxf2 2.Kxf2 Rxe3 3.Bxe3 Ng4+
					4.Kf3 Nxh2+ 5.Kf2 Ng4+ 6.Kf3 Nh2+
0:43	4/9	0.00	3006895		1...Nxf2 2.Kxf2 Rxe3 3.Bxe3 Ng4+
					4.Kf3 Nxh2+ 5.Kf2 Ng4+ 6.Kf3 Nh2+
0:53	4/9	-0.08	3660309		1...Ng4 2.Bxe4 Nxh6 3.Bg2 Ng4 4.Nc4
					Nf6 5.Nxd6 Qxd6 6.Nf4
1:40	4/10	0.02	6705168		1...Ng4 2.Nxg4 Qxg4 3.Nf4 Qf5 4.Rac1
					Bxf4 5.Bxf4 Rxd5 6.h4 Rxd1+ 7.Rxd1
					Bd5
2:46	4/10	-0.34	11668561	1...Nxf2 2.Kxf2 Rxe3 3.Bxe3 Ng4+
					4.Kf3 Nxh2+ 5.Kf2 Ng4+ 6.Kf3 Qe6
					7.Bf4 Bxd5+ 8.Rxd5 Qxd5+ 9.Qe4
					Qxe4+ 10.Kxe4 f5+ 11.Kf3 Be5 12.Ng1
					Bxb2 13.Re1

jm



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