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Subject: Re: Does any program find Kortschnoj's 44.Kg3 etc.?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 21:35:46 08/13/02

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On August 13, 2002 at 21:52:43, Mike S. wrote:

>Btw. we had a thread about the Short-Timman game in the CSS Forum recently, too.
>Mikhail Gurevich found another similar example, where the white king goes from
>h2 to g5 too:
>
>Kortschnoj,V - Tal,M [A62]
>URS-ch30 Erevan, 1962
>[D]4r1k1/3q3p/p2PbQpB/4Pp2/3R4/1p4PP/1P5K/8 w - - 0 43
>43.g4 a5 44.Kg3 Rb8 45.Kh4 Qf7 46.Kg5 fxg4 47.hxg4 Bd7 48.Rc4 a4 49.Rc7 a3
>50.Rxd7 Qxd7 51.e6 Qa7 52.Qe5 axb2 53.e7 Kf7 54.d7 1-0
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
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after 43. g4 a5 - what's wrong 44.gxf5 -- knocks the Bishop off the c4 diagonal
- allowing the rook to penetrate to the 7th rank - Carfty 17.16 SE likes it with
a +6.64

[D] 4r1k1/3q3p/3PbQpB/p3Pp2/3R2P1/1p5P/1P5K/8 w - - 0 1
after about 2,170,000,000 nodes - here's the analysis
White(2): go
              clearing hash tables
crafty is behind  1.5 on time, reducing by 1/3.
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 1000:00 (1000:00)
         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
                8     1.18     ++   2. h4!!
                8     1.49   1.58   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Qf7 6. Qxf7+ Kxf7
         (3)    8->   1.49   1.58   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Qf7 6. Qxf7+ Kxf7
         (2)    9     1.69   1.71   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Re8 6. Rxf5 gxf5 7. Qxf5
         (2)    9->   1.88   1.71   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Re8 6. Rxf5 gxf5 7. Qxf5
               10     2.24   1.65   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Rc8 6. Rf3 Qb7 7. Rf2
         (4)   10->   3.74   1.65   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Rc8 6. Rf3 Qb7 7. Rf2
               11     5.39     ++   2. h4!!
         (2)   11->  11.80   2.04   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rc4 Qa7 5.
                                    Rf4 Rc8 6. Rf3 Qb7 7. Rf2
               12    11.96     --   2. h4
               12    14.79   2.38   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rf4 Qf7 5.
                                    Rxf5 gxf5 6. Qg5+ Kh8 7. e6 Qb7 8.
                                    Qxf5 a4 9. Qf6+ Kg8
         (2)   12->  19.22   2.38   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rf4 Qf7 5.
                                    Rxf5 gxf5 6. Qg5+ Kh8 7. e6 Qb7 8.
                                    Qxf5 a4 9. Qf6+ Kg8
               13    28.75     ++   2. h4!!
         (3)   13->  46.57   2.77   2. h4 Ra8 3. gxf5 Bxf5 4. Rf4 Qf7 5.
                                    Rxf5 gxf5 6. Qg5+ Kh8 7. e6 Qb7 8.
                                    Qxf5 a4 9. Qf6+ Kg8
               14    46.68     --   2. h4
         (2)   14     2:28   3.06   2. h4 Qf7 3. d7 Bxd7 4. Qxf7+ Kxf7
                                    5. Rxd7+ Re7 6. Rd5 fxg4 7. Rxa5 Rc7
                                    8. Ra6 Rc2+ 9. Kg3 Re2 10. Rf6+ Ke7
                                    11. Bf4
               14     3:19     ++   2. gxf5!!
               14    24:08   6.64   2. gxf5 Bxf5 3. Rc4 Qf7 4. Rc7 Bd7
                                    5. Qxf7+ Kxf7 6. Rxd7+ Ke6 7. Rxh7
                                    a4 8. Bf4 a3 9. bxa3 b2 10. Rb7 Rf8
               14->  24:09   6.64   2. gxf5 Bxf5 3. Rc4 Qf7 4. Rc7 Bd7
                                    5. Qxf7+ Kxf7 6. Rxd7+ Ke6 7. Rxh7
                                    a4 8. Bf4 a3 9. bxa3 b2 10. Rb7 Rf8
               15    25:51     --   2. gxf5
White(2): ?
              time=27:47  cpu=199%  mat=0  n=2171007K  fh=14%  nps=1302K
              ext-> checks=337554913 recaps=4585904 pawns=34729538 sing=812
              ext->  1rep=29402950 thrt:1269923  pawn sac=2483908
              predicted=0  nodes=2171007169  evals=0
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
              SMP->  split=4009  stop=853  data=13/64  cpu=55:32  elap=27:47




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