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Subject: Re: A (potentially) interesting position....

Author: Rex

Date: 08:29:12 11/30/02

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I am glad these positions are an interesting for some.  I have a bunch of these
comp ver humans (GM) positions.



On November 30, 2002 at 09:29:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 30, 2002 at 08:58:25, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On November 29, 2002 at 20:21:12, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>(...)
>>>>>[D]8/2q1p1k1/3pP1p1/2pPNpNp/2P2B2/1p1B2K1/1P1R4/r7 w - - 0 42
>>>>>CM9000, on a humble P3-733, finds 42.Nxg6! in 21 seconds. How do other engines
>>>>>fare?
>>>>
>>>>Analysis by Nimzo 8 (P3/700, 64 MB hash):
>>>>
>>>>1.Nd7 Qa7 2.Rf2 Qa2 3.Kh2
>>>>  ±  (0.87)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00  58kN
>>>>  ±  (0.76)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00  58kN
>>>>1.Nc6 Ra8 2.Nf7 Re8 3.Rf2 Kh7 4.Bg5 h4+
>>>>  ±  (0.77)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00  58kN
>>>>  +-  (1.62)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:07  2694kN
>>>>1.Ngf7 Kh7 2.Nxg6 Rg1+ 3.Kh2 Rxg6 4.Bxf5 Kg7 5.Re2 Rg4 6.Bxg4
>>>>  +-  (1.63)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:13  5667kN
>>>>  +-  (2.34)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:43  19670kN
>>>>1.Nxg6 Rg1+ 2.Kh2 Rg4 3.Rf2 Kxg6 4.Bxf5+ Kg7 5.Bxg4 hxg4 6.Rg2
>>>>  +-  (2.35)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:46  21624kN
>>>>  +-  (3.21)   Depth: 13/29   00:01:23  38980kN
>>>>
>>>>(...)
>>>>After 1.Nxg6 Kxg6? 2.Kh2 (as you mentioned), Black has no defense against the
>>>>threat 3.Rg2 and 4.Nf7+ Kf6 5.Bg5+ Kg7 6.Bxe7+ Kh7 7.Bxf5#
>>
>>>Thanks for that analysis. I wondered if Nxg6 could be played later or if it was
>>>necessary immediately. But, according to your output above, doesn't Nimzo decide
>>>on Nxg6 after 46 seconds? I would be curious to see what its output is after a
>>>few more minutes, since you appeared to stop the analysis after less than a
>>>minute and a half. Does Nimzo eventually switch to Ngf7 like Yace does?
>>
>>Yesterday I did wait a bit longer, but Nimzo didn't come up with a new
>>mainvariant after ~3 minutes. To repeat the test, I removed the learn file and
>>let it run for 15 minutes (while surfing the web):
>>
>>Analysis by Nimzo 8:
>>
>>1.Nd7 Qa7 2.Rf2 Qa2 3.Kh2
>>  ±  (0.87)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
>>  ±  (0.76)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
>>1.Nc6 Ra8 2.Nf7 Re8 3.Rf2 Qb7 4.Bh6+ Kg8 5.Bg5 Kh7 6.Kh2
>>  ±  (0.77)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
>>  +-  (1.63)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:08  2363kN
>>1.Ngf7 Kh7 2.Nxg6 Rg1+ 3.Kh2 Rxg6 4.Bxf5 Kg7 5.Rd3 Qb6 6.Bxg6
>>  +-  (1.64)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:20  7487kN
>>  +-  (2.50)   Depth: 11/26   00:01:04  27245kN
>>1.Nxg6 Rg1+ 2.Kh2 Rg4 3.Rf2 Kxg6 4.Bxf5+ Kg7 5.Bxg4 hxg4 6.Rg2
>>  +-  (2.51)   Depth: 11/26   00:01:06  28244kN
>>  +-  (3.37)   Depth: 15/32   00:09:22  275483kN
>>
>>I have now idea why some evaluations today are different from yesterday's, but
>>anyway, Nimzo likes 1.Nxg6 more. Now, I switched to multi-pv mode during the
>>analysis above, and let it calculate for some more minutes:
>>
>>Analysis by Nimzo 8 (during depth 13):
>>
>>1. +- (3.21): 1.Nxg6 Rg1+ 2.Kh2 Rg4 3.Rf2 Kxg6 4.Bxf5+ Kg7 5.Bxg4 hxg4 6.Rg2
>>2. +- (1.94): 1.Ngf7 Qa5 2.Nc6 Rg1+ 3.Kf3 Qa1 4.Nxe7 Rg4 5.Rh2 Rxf4+ 6.Kxf4
>>
>>It seems that 1...Qa5 is more annoying for White after 1.Ngf7 here (than after
>>1.Nxg6 Kxg6 2.Kh2 as you mentioned it), with counter-threats for Black as his
>>queen can enter White's position to support the rook.
>>
>>So it seems it's not just a simple transposition (as I thought yesterday), and
>>these two first moves are not exchangeable... but probably both winning.
>
>Yace's move was Ngf3 and not Ngf7
>
>I believe that white has a lot of good moves(for example Nc6 is suggested by
>movei with verifecation search +2.25/12 before failing high on Nxg6(+2.26 after
>27315139 nodes slightly better than Nimzo8 that needs 28244 knodes)
>I prefer to use verification search for long time control.
>
>Movei fails high again on Nxg6(29146651 nodes) with score of 2.55 but solving
>the fail high problem seem to take a big number of nodes(111961781 to get 2.74
>pawns that is also the final score for depth 12).
>
>The score is going up to +2.89 at depth 13(129583889 nodes) and Movei finishes
>iteration 13 after 133863837 nodes.
>
>The score continues to go up at depth 14 to +2.99(171208764 nodes)
>
>Uri



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