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Subject: Re: Study by Benko

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:48:46 12/20/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 19:39:56, Roy Eassa wrote:

>White to move & win
>[d] 7k/5r2/6PK/6P1/8/8/5P1R/8 w - - 0 1
>
>7k/5r2/6PK/6P1/8/8/5P1R/8 w - - 0 1
>
>1.g7+!
>
>   [1.Kh5 Rf4 only draws]
>
>1...Kg8
>
>   [1...Rxg7 2.Rh5 Kg8
>      (2...Rf7 3.Kg6+ Kg8 4.Rh8+ +-)
>    3.g6 Rd7 4.Ra5 +-]
>
>2.Rh3! Rf3 3.Rg3! Rxf2
>
>   [3...Rf4 4.Re3 Rh4+ 5.Kg6 Re4 6.Kf5 Rc4 7.Re7 +-]
>
>4.Ra3 Rh2+ 5.Kg6 Ra2 6.Rf3 Ra6+ 7.Rf6 Rb6 8.Kh6! Rb8 9.Rf8+ +-
>
>   [9.g6 also works]

CM9000, on a P3-733, finds g7+ in one second, but loses it to Kh5 up until nine
seconds, after which it finds and sticks with g7+:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:01	5/9	2.23	83234		1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.f4 Rd6+ 4.Kh5
					Kxg7 5.f5 Rd7 6.Rg3
0:01	5/9	2.38	92511		1.Kh5 Rf4 2.f3 Kg7 3.Rf2 Rf8 4.f4
					Rh8+ 5.Kg4 Kxg6 6.f5+ Kf7
0:01	6/10	2.30	103302		1.Kh5 Rf4 2.f3 Kg7 3.Rf2 Rf8 4.f4
					Rh8+ 5.Kg4 Kxg6 6.f5+ Kf7 7.Rf3 Rh7
0:01	7/11	2.35	137575		1.Kh5 Rf4 2.f3 Kg7 3.Rf2 Rf8 4.f4
					Rh8+ 5.Kg4 Kxg6 6.f5+ Kf7 7.Rf3 Rh2
0:02	8/12	2.31	209287		1.Kh5 Rf4 2.f3 Kg7 3.Rf2 Rf8 4.f4
					Rh8+ 5.Kg4 Kxg6 6.f5+ Kf7 7.Rf4
					Rh2 8.g6+ Kg7 9.Kg5
0:04	9/13	1.79	510589		1.Kh5 Rf4 2.f3 Kg7 3.Rf2 Kg8 4.Rf1
					Kg7 5.Re1 Rxf3 6.Re7+ Kg8 7.Rf7
					Rh3+ 8.Kg4
0:09	9/13	2.41	1047755		1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.f4 Rd6+ 4.Kh5
					Kxg7 5.Rc3 Rd5 6.Rc7+ Kf8 7.Rb7
					Rc5 8.Rd7 Rf5 9.Rd8+ Kg7
0:16	10/14	2.61	1921583		1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.f4 Rd6+ 4.Kh5
					Kxg7 5.Rc3 Rd5 6.Rc7+ Kg8 7.Kh6
					Rd8 8.f5 Re8 9.Kg6
0:33	11/15	2.77	4040051		1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.Rf3 Rxg7
					4.g6 Rd7 5.Rc3 Rd8 6.f4 Kf8 7.f5
					Ke7 8.Rg3 Kf6
0:54	12/16	2.90	6812895		1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.Rf3 Rxg7
					4.g6 Rc7 5.Rd3 Rc8 6.f4 Kf8 7.f5
					Rc2 8.Rd8+ Ke7 9.Ra8 Rf2 10.Ra7+
					Ke8
1:29	13/17	3.05	11605430	1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.Rf3 Rxg7
					4.g6 Rc7 5.Rb3 Rc8 6.f4 Rd8 7.f5
					Kf8 8.f6 Kg8 9.Rf3 Kf8 10.g7+ Kf7
2:34	14/18	3.12	20784755	1.g7+ Kg8 2.Rh3 Rd7 3.Rf3 Rxg7
					4.g6 Rd7 5.Rc3 Rd8 6.f4 Re8 7.f5
					Rd8 8.f6 Kf8 9.Rg3 Rd7 10.Rg4

jm



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