Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:46:26 12/03/02
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On December 03, 2002 at 13:06:05, Art Basham wrote: >Here white played Rxh5 and went on to win...! >My computer is too slow to find this one...it is about 14 or 15 ply deep... >maybe more...:-) > >[D]r1r2k2/1q1n1p2/3PpPp1/4P2p/pbpN3R/2N3K1/1P2Q2P/3R4 w - - > >taken from the excellent book >Test Your Chess IQ >Grandmaster Challenge >Cadogan Chess 1993 Chessmaster 9000, on a humble P3-733, is quite impressive on this one. It finds Rxh5 in one second, and gives it a winning score in 15 seconds: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 1/3 -0.88 2331 1.Ndb5 Rc5 2.Rxc4 Rxb5 3.Nxb5 Qxb5 0:00 1/3 -0.51 2584 1.Qe3 Bxc3 2.Qh6+ Ke8 3.Qh8+ Nf8 4.bxc3 0:00 1/4 -0.51 6085 1.Qe3 Bxc3 2.Qh6+ Ke8 3.Qh8+ Nf8 4.bxc3 0:00 1/5 -0.61 23532 1.Qe3 Bxc3 2.Qh6+ Ke8 3.Qh8+ Nf8 4.bxc3 Qb2 5.Ne2 0:01 1/5 -0.18 51001 1.Rxh5 Kg8 2.Rh4 Bxc3 3.bxc3 a3 4.Nf3 Qb2 0:03 1/6 0.00 259788 1.Rxh5 gxh5 2.Qxh5 Nxf6 3.Qh6+ Ke8 4.Qxf6 Bxc3 5.d7+ Qxd7 6.Qh8+ Ke7 7.Qf6+ Ke8 0:15 1/7 1.63 1290745 1.Rxh5 Kg8 2.Qe3 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxd6+ 4.Kf2 Qxb2+ 5.Nce2 Bf8 6.Qh3 gxh5 7.Qxh5 Bg7 8.Qg4 Qxd4+ 9.Qxd4 0:47 1/8 1.70 3888542 1.Rxh5 Nxf6 2.exf6 Bxd6+ 3.Kh3 Kg8 4.Rg1 Qd7 5.Qe4 e5+ 6.Nf5 Ra5 7.Qh4 1:09 1/9 2.36 5897461 1.Rxh5 Nxf6 2.exf6 Bxd6+ 3.Kh3 Kg8 4.Rg1 Qd7 5.Qe4 e5+ 6.Kh4 Bf8 7.Rxg6+ fxg6 8.Qxg6+ Bg7 9.Qh7+ Kf8 10.fxg7+ Qxg7 11.Qxg7+ Kxg7 12.Rxe5 3:22 1/10 3.01 18532611 1.Rxh5 Ke8 2.Rh8+ Nf8 3.Nxe6 fxe6 4.d7+ Qxd7 5.Rxd7 Kxd7 6.Nxa4 Ra6 7.Rh4 Bd6 8.Rd4 Rxa4 9.Rxd6+ Ke8 jm
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