Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 08:24:28 12/15/02
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On December 15, 2002 at 08:24:29, Art Basham wrote:
>In this position, sure, white has some very good moves to make,,like
>Ne6, or Bf5...; but I think that the very best move to make here is
>1. Rd3...(played rather quickly by Gambit Tiger and other programs as well)
>
>[D]2r2rk1/pb4q1/1p1p1pB1/n2P3Q/1b3N2/8/PB3PPP/3R1RK1 w - - 0 1
>
>How well does your favorite engine do here?
>Does it "go for more material" of properly comtinue the attack
>in grand style?
Crafty 19.1 likes Rd3 as the following output shows:
10 20.17 7.16 1. Bf5 Ba6 2. Ne6 Qe7 3. Qg4+ Kh8 4.
Qxb4 Bxf1 5. Qh4+ Kg8 6. Qg4+ Kh8 7.
Nxf8
10-> 22.48 7.16 1. Bf5 Ba6 2. Ne6 Qe7 3. Qg4+ Kh8 4.
Qxb4 Bxf1 5. Qh4+ Kg8 6. Qg4+ Kh8 7.
Nxf8
11 36.42 ++ 1. Bf5!!
11 1:13 8.07 1. Bf5 Ba6 2. Ne6 Qe7 3. Qg6+ Kh8 4.
Nxf8 Rxf8 5. Qh6+ Kg8 6. Be6+ Rf7 7.
Bxf6 Qb7 8. Bxf7+ Qxf7
11 2:33 10.44 1. Rd3 Bd2 2. Bh7+ Qxh7 3. Rg3+ Kh8
4. Ng6+ Kg7 5. Nxf8+ Kxf8 6. Qxh7 Bg5
7. f4 Ba6 8. fxg5 Bxf1 9. Kxf1
11-> 2:34 10.44 1. Rd3 Bd2 2. Bh7+ Qxh7 3. Rg3+ Kh8
4. Ng6+ Kg7 5. Nxf8+ Kxf8 6. Qxh7 Bg5
7. f4 Ba6 8. fxg5 Bxf1 9. Kxf1
12 3:15 ++ 1. Rd3!!
12 5:03 12.83 1. Rd3 Bd2 2. Bh7+ Qxh7 3. Rg3+ Kh8
4. Ng6+ Kg7 5. Nxf8+ Kxf8 6. Qxh7 Bxd5
7. Qh8+ Ke7 8. Rg7+ Bf7 9. Qxc8
12-> 5:14 12.83 1. Rd3 Bd2 2. Bh7+ Qxh7 3. Rg3+ Kh8
4. Ng6+ Kg7 5. Nxf8+ Kxf8 6. Qxh7 Bxd5
7. Qh8+ Ke7 8. Rg7+ Bf7 9. Qxc8
This was on my Red Hat 8 Linux system running with 700 MHz Athlon, 96 MB hash,
12 MB pawn hash.
Roy
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