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Subject: Re: Nice position posted by Sune Larsson some time ago

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 04:39:01 11/08/02

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On November 07, 2002 at 18:53:31, Steven J. Brann wrote:

>On November 07, 2002 at 16:06:45, Ernst Walet wrote:
>
>>Looking into some collected positions I found this nice one.  The key is to
>>sacrifice the bishop (Bg2) and play e4, to trap the black bishop.  How do
>>programs do here?
>>
>>To start, CM9K took 09:12 on a Celeron1200, 256MB hash.
>>
>>[D]8/6p1/P1b1pp2/2p1p3/1k4P1/3PP3/1PK5/5B2 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>0:00	1/5	0.80	4319		1.a7 Kb5 2.g5 fxg5 3.Bh3 Kb6
>>0:00	2/6	1.20	21083		1.a7 e4 2.Kd2 exd3 3.Bxd3 Ba8
>>0:00	3/7	1.01	37839		1.a7 e4 2.Kd2 exd3 3.Bxd3 Ba8 4.Ke2
>>0:00	4/8	1.06	56042		1.a7 e4 2.Kd2 exd3 3.Bxd3 Ba8 4.Ke2
>>					Ka5
>>0:01	5/9	0.72	146943		1.a7 e4 2.dxe4 Bxe4+ 3.Kd2 Ba8
>>					4.Bh3 Kb5 5.g5 Kb6 6.gxf6 gxf6
>>0:02	6/10	0.28	317414		1.a7 e4 2.g5 Ka5 3.gxf6 gxf6 4.Bh3
>>					Kb6 5.Bxe6 Kxa7 6.Kc3 exd3 7.Kxd3
>>0:04	7/11	0.28	615508		1.a7 e4 2.g5 Ka5 3.gxf6 gxf6 4.Bh3
>>					Kb6 5.Bxe6 Kxa7 6.Kc3 exd3 7.Kxd3
>>0:08	8/12	0.13	1310139		1.a7 e4 2.g5 Ka5 3.gxf6 gxf6 4.dxe4
>>					Kb6 5.Bc4 Kxa7 6.Bxe6 Bxe4+ 7.Kc3
>>					Kb6 8.Kc4
>>0:26	9/13	0.10	4502224		1.a7 e4 2.d4 cxd4 3.exd4 Ka5 4.Bc4
>>					Kb6 5.Bxe6 Kxa7 6.Kd2 Kb6 7.d5
>>					Bb5 8.d6
>>0:47	10/14	-0.09	8163668		1.a7 e4 2.dxe4 Bxe4+ 3.Bd3 Bc6
>>					4.Bg6 Ka5 5.Kd3 Kb6 6.Bf7 Kxa7
>>					7.Bxe6 Kb6 8.b3 Kb5
>>1:37	11/15	-0.03	17072076	1.a7 e4 2.d4 cxd4 3.exd4 f5 4.gxf5
>>					exf5 5.b3 Ka5 6.Bc4 Kb6 7.d5 Ba8
>>					8.d6 Kc6 9.Be6 f4
>>3:09	12/16	-0.12	33992541	1.a7 e4 2.dxe4 Bxe4+ 3.Bd3 Ba8
>>					4.Bg6 Ka5 5.Kd3 Kb6 6.Bf7 Kxa7
>>					7.Bxe6 Kb6 8.Kc4 Bf3 9.b3 Kc6
>>5:54	13/17	-0.18	65781987	1.a7 e4 2.dxe4 Bxe4+ 3.Kd2 Ka5
>>					4.Bc4 Kb6 5.Bxe6 Kxa7 6.Bf5 Bd5
>>					7.e4 Bc4 8.Kc3 Bf7 9.Bd7 Kb6 10.b4
>>					Bg6
>>9:12	13/17	1.76	105197652	1.Bg2 Bxg2 2.e4 c4 3.a7 cxd3+ 4.Kxd3
>>					f5 5.a8=Q Bxe4+ 6.Qxe4+ fxe4+ 7.Kxe4
>>					Kb3 8.Kxe5 Kxb2 9.Kxe6 Kc3 10.Kf7
>>					g5 11.Kg6 Kd4 12.Kxg5
>>11:39	14/18	2.60	133337498	1.Bg2 Bxg2 2.e4 f5 3.gxf5 exf5
>>					4.a7 fxe4 5.d4 e3 6.dxe5 Be4+ 7.Kd1
>>					Bc6 8.e6 Kb3 9.e7 Kxb2 10.Ke2 c4
>>					11.Kxe3 c3 12.e8=Q Bxe8 13.a8=Q
>>
>>
>>Ernst.
>
>CM9_Brann, a custom CM9K personality on a 1.9G P4, 128MB hash finds it in 4.04.
>Notice the difference in the number of positions evaluated to find the solution.
> I believe this is due to the selective search setting which, on my personality
>is set to 12.
>
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:03	4/11	0.45	616774		1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.g4-g5 Kb4-a5 3.g5xf6
>					g7xf6 4.Bf1-h3 Ka5-b6 5.Bh3xe6
>					Kb6xa7 6.Kc2-c3 Ka7-b6
>0:06	5/12	0.36	1061179		1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.g4-g5 Kb4-a5 3.g5xf6
>					g7xf6 4.d3xe4 Ka5-b6 5.Bf1-c4 Kb6xa7
>					6.Bc4xe6 Bc6xe4+ 7.Kc2-c3 Ka7-b6
>					8.Kc3-c4
>0:14	6/13	0.27	2738844		1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.d3-d4 c5xd4 3.e3xd4
>					Kb4-a5 4.Bf1-c4 Ka5-b6 5.Bc4xe6
>					Kb6xa7 6.d4-d5 Bc6-b5 7.Kc2-d2
>					Ka7-b6 8.d5-d6
>0:23	7/14	0.08	4805134		1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.d3xe4 Bc6xe4+ 3.Bf1-d3
>					Be4-c6 4.Bd3-g6 Kb4-a5 5.Bg6-f7
>					Ka5-b6 6.Bf7xe6 Kb6xa7 7.Kc2-d3
>					Ka7-b6 8.Be6-c4 Bc6-f3
>0:46	8/15	0.10	9759885		1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.d3-d4 c5xd4 3.e3xd4
>					f6-f5 4.g4xf5 e6xf5 5.b2-b3 Kb4-a5
>					6.Bf1-c4 Ka5-b6 7.d4-d5 Bc6-a8
>					8.d5-d6 Kb6-c6 9.Bc4-e6 f5-f4
>1:34	9/16	0.05	20354384	1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.d3xe4 Bc6xe4+ 3.Bf1-d3
>					Be4-c6 4.Bd3-a6 Kb4-a5 5.Ba6-c8
>					Ka5-b6 6.Bc8xe6 Kb6xa7 7.Kc2-d3
>					Ka7-b6 8.Kd3-c4 Bc6-f3 9.b2-b3
>					Kb6-c6
>2:38	10/17	0.00	35529006	1.a6-a7 e5-e4 2.d3xe4 Bc6xe4+ 3.Bf1-d3
>					Be4-c6 4.Bd3-a6 Kb4-a5 5.Ba6-c8
>					Ka5-b6 6.Bc8xe6 Kb6xa7 7.Kc2-d3
>					Ka7-b6 8.Kd3-c4 Bc6-f3 9.b2-b4
>					c5xb4 10.Kc4xb4 Kb6-c6 11.Be6-f5
>4:04	10/17	2.48	56791616	1.Bf1-g2 Bc6xg2 2.e3-e4 f6-f5 3.g4xf5
>					e6xf5 4.a6-a7 f5xe4 5.d3-d4 e4-e3
>					6.d4xe5 Bg2-e4+ 7.Kc2-d1 Be4-c6
>					8.e5-e6 Kb4-b3 9.e6-e7 Kb3xb2 10.Kd1-e2
>					c5-c4 11.a7-a8=Q Bc6xa8 12.e7-e8=Q
>4:58	11/18	3.39	69460709	1.Bf1-g2 Bc6xg2 2.e3-e4 f6-f5 3.g4xf5
>					e6xf5 4.a6-a7 f5xe4 5.d3-d4 e4-e3
>					6.d4xe5 Bg2-e4+ 7.Kc2-d1 Be4-c6
>					8.e5-e6 Kb4-b3 9.e6-e7 Kb3xb2 10.Kd1-e2
>					c5-c4 11.Ke2xe3 c4-c3 12.e7-e8=Q
>					Bc6xe8 13.a7-a8=Q
>
>Steve



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