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Subject: Re: Experiments seems to prove that White is lost

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:13:43 08/10/02

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On August 10, 2002 at 12:26:16, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 10, 2002 at 11:42:08, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On August 10, 2002 at 05:14:37, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On August 10, 2002 at 04:29:29, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 10, 2002 at 03:37:15, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>[D]1n3bk1/5p2/p1p1p1p1/Pr1bPq1p/Rp1P1P2/1P1N2P1/1R2QK1P/B7 w - - 0 37
>>>>>Nimzo 7.32 vs Aristarch 4.4 (2)
>>>>>P3 650/32 hash, ponder=off, 40'/40, 3-4 men TB's
>>>>>Position after 36...h5 the beginning of Blacks counter-attack
>>>>
>>>>Movei suggests at depth 13
>>>>37.Ke1 Be7 38.Kd1 Nd7 with evaluation of 1.09 pawns for white.
>>>>
>>>>I prefer black's position but I am not sure if white is helpless.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Hi Uri
>>>I am going to have a more deep look at this game. Analasyis to follow later.
>>>Regards
>>>Kurt
>>
>>Hi Uri
>>I made the following interesting experiment and are pleased to be able to
>>demonstrate that White's position after 36...h5 is indeed rather critical and
>>perhaps even lost. I took Fritz7008 and Aristarch 4.4 and let them play the next
>>moves for at least 10 min, sometimes 20 min or just so long to be sure that
>>evaluation and main line is stable. And as you can see from the analysis below
>>(Ath 1.2/32 MB hash) White's position has become worse from move to move.
>>Kurt
>>
>>Nimzo 7.32 - Aristarch 4.4
>>1n3bk1/5p2/p1p1p1p1/Pr1bPq1p/Rp1P1P2/1P1N2P1/1R2QK1P/B7 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Analysis by Fritz 7:
>>
>>
>>37.Kg1 Nd7 38.Nc1 f6 39.exf6 Nxf6 40.Raa2 Ne4 41.Rc2 h4 42.Qe1 g5
>>  =  (0.13)   Depth: 14/41   00:01:37  60975kN
>>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 16/44   00:10:36  406813kN
>>
>>(Utzinger, MyTown 10.08.2002)
>
>I see that Fritz does not understand this position.
>
>g1 is a bad place for the white king.
>I do not know if white can save the game but the move of movei(ke1)
>seems to me more logical.
>
>King at g1 when black's queen controls h3 and black has a bishop at d5 seems
>very dangerous.
>
>Fritz's score went down after Kg1 and it may be interesting to know if it keeps
>Kg1 or find a better move after some hours of analysis.
>
>Uri

Chessmaster 9000, on a PIII-733, initially agrees with Fritz, and takes a long
time to see that Kg1 is not good, and even longer to find something better:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/6	0.79	41054		37.Kg1 Nd7 38.Nc1 c5 39.Rd2 Bg7
0:01	1/7	0.69	90857		37.Kg1 Nd7 38.Qe3 c5 39.Nf2 cxd4
					40.Qxd4 Nc5 41.Rxb4 Rxa5
0:03	1/8	0.86	217917		37.Kg1 Nd7 38.Ne1 c5 39.Nc2 Bg7
					40.Ne3 Qe4 41.Nxd5 Qxd5
0:07	1/9	0.58	539583		37.Kg1 Nd7 38.Nc1 Bg7 39.Rc2 Bf3
					40.Qf2 Qe4 41.Raa2
0:20	1/10	0.68	1489087		37.Kg1 Nd7 38.Nc1 Bg7 39.Qd3 Qh3
					40.Qf1 Qf5 41.Raa2 c5 42.Rd2
0:52	2/11	0.53	3898760		37.Kg1 c5 38.dxc5 Nc6 39.Qe3 Nxa5
					40.Rxb4 Nxb3 41.Rxb5 axb5 42.Ra2
					Nxc5
3:05	3/12	0.28	14463567	37.Kg1 c5 38.Nxc5 Nc6 39.Nd7 Nxd4
					40.Qd1 Nf3+ 41.Kf2 Be7 42.Rc2 Kg7
					43.Rc8 Nxh2
8:09	4/13	-0.01	38159939	37.Kg1 c5 38.Nxc5 Nc6 39.Nd7 Nxd4
					40.Qd1 Nf3+ 41.Kf2 Be7 42.Rc2 Qh3
					43.Rc8+ Kg7 44.Nf6 Qxh2+ 45.Ke3
					Bxf6 46.exf6+ Kh7
18:54	4/13	0.26	89541621	37.Raa2 Nd7 38.Nc1 f6 39.exf6 Nxf6
					40.Kg1 Be4 41.Rd2 Bb1 42.Ra4 Be4
					43.Nd3 Rxa5 44.Rxa5 Qxa5

jm



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