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Subject: Re: Frank J. Byrne Memorial Computer Chess Challenge - Tiger is Champ

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 02:55:44 06/10/02

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On June 09, 2002 at 22:35:36, Mike Byrne wrote:


>[D] r1b2rk1/pp3pp1/1b5p/2qB3Q/3pNP2/3P4/PPP3PP/R4RK1 b - - 0 1
>
>not sure if I broke Crafty here or not – but Qxc2?? looks like a loser .16…Qc7
>is better

My program is not so sure that Qc7 is going to save things. The score was
dropping again in ply 13 when the search ended:

 7=     5     0     49759   1...Qxc2 2.Qg6 Kh8 3.Bxf7 Qxd3 4.Rfe1 Bd7
 8>  -110     1    150704   1...Qxc2 2.f5 Qxd3 3.f6 Qe3 4.Kh1 gxf6
                            5.Nxf6 Kh8 6.Bxf7
 8=   -69     1    162548   1...Qxc2 2.f5 Qxd3 3.f6 Qe3 4.Kh1 gxf6
                            5.Nxf6 Kh8 6.Bxf7
 9>  -141     6    600032   1...Qc7 2.Rac1 Be6 3.Bxe6 fxe6 4.Qg6 Rxf4
                            5.Qxe6 Qf7
 9=  -135    12   1140140   1...Qc7 2.Qg6 Kh8 3.Qd6 Kg8 4.Qxc7 Bxc7
                            5.Nc5 Rb8
10>  -135    22   1987358   1...Qe7 2.Rae1 Be6 3.Ng3 Rad8 4.Bxe6 fxe6
                            5.Qe5 Rf6
10=  -131    35   3134323   1...Qe7 2.Qe5 Qd8 3.f5 Re8 4.Qd6 Qh4 5.f6 g6
11>  -203   116   9702190   1...Qa5 2.b4 Qxb4 3.f5 Qb5 4.f6 Be6 5.fxg7 Kxg7
11=  -200   150  12376745   1...Qa5 2.b4 Qxb4 3.f5 Qb5 4.f6 Be6
12>  -241   472  37681631   1...Qc7 2.f5 Qe5 3.Qg6 Bc7 4.g3 Kh8 5.Bxf7
12=  -238   520  41867251   1...Qc7 2.f5 Qe5 3.Qg6 Bc7 4.g3 Kh8 5.Bxf7

NODES per second 80900

This on a busy PIII-933, hence the crappy NPS.

Andrew




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