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Subject: Re: Test position

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:22:32 06/04/02

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On June 04, 2002 at 12:17:35, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On June 04, 2002 at 05:03:42, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>This is from an ICC game between PostModernist and Crafty. The key here is Nb2!
>>How long does it take your program to find it?
>>
>>[D]1r1r2k1/p5pp/4ppq1/2b5/nP6/4P1P1/P2BQ1BP/R2R3K b - b3 0 1 bm Nb2
>>
>>It took crafty 10 seconds on Bob's quad Xeon 700MHz (with the benefit of full
>>hashtables of course). It takes sixty seconds for PM to find it on my Athlon
>>1200.
>>
>
>

F7 still only moderately convinced after 3 minutes:

23...Bd6 24.Be1 Nb6 25.Rac1 Be5 26.b5 Rxd1 27.Rxd1 f5
  =  (-0.07)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:00  240kN
23...Bd6 24.Be1 Nb6 25.Rac1 Be5 26.b5 f5 27.Rxd8+ Rxd8 28.Qf3
  =  (-0.13)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:00  492kN
23...Bd6 24.Be1 Nb6 25.b5 Nd5 26.Rac1 Be5 27.Rc6 Rb6 28.Bf2 Rxc6
  =  (-0.04)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:01  1000kN
23...Bd6 24.Be1 Nb6 25.b5 Nd5 26.Rac1 Be5 27.e4 Nc7 28.Rxd8+ Rxd8 29.Bf2
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 11/25   00:00:04  2483kN
23...Bd6 24.Be1 Nb6 25.b5 Be5 26.Rxd8+ Rxd8 27.Rd1 Rc8 28.Qf3 f5 29.e4 Rf8
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 12/28   00:00:11  6762kN
23...Nb2!
  =  (-0.04)   Depth: 12/28   00:00:13  8488kN
23...Nb2!
  =  (-0.19)   Depth: 12/28   00:00:15  9391kN
23...Nb2 24.bxc5 Nxd1 25.Rxd1 Qc2 26.Bf3 Rb2 27.Qa6 Rxd2 28.Rxd2 Qxd2 29.Qxe6+
Kf8 30.Qc8+ Kf7
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 13/29   00:00:24  15550kN
23...Nb2 24.bxc5 Nxd1 25.Rxd1 Qc2 26.Bf3 Rb2 27.Qa6 Rb1 28.Re1 Rxd2 29.Qxe6+
  =  (-0.13)   Depth: 14/32   00:00:53  35414kN
23...Nb2!
  ³  (-0.41)   Depth: 15/37   00:02:18  94410kN
23...Nb2 24.bxc5 Nxd1 25.Rxd1 Qc2 26.Bh3 Rb2 27.Bxe6+ Kf8 28.Bb3 Rxd2 29.Rxd2
Qxd2
  ³  (-0.44)   Depth: 15/37   00:02:46  114164kN



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