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Subject: Re: This was really the best game of the first 30 years of Chess Informant !

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:47:50 12/31/02

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On December 31, 2002 at 19:54:38, Mike Byrne wrote:

>GM's Anand, Browne, Matanovic (Editor-in-Chief, Chess Informant) and Sokolov
>agree with me.
>
>
>[Event "Bruxelles (m/9) 52/592"]
>[White "Ivanchuk, V."]
>[Black "Jussupow, A."]
>[Date "1991"]
>[Annotator "Jussupow,A"]
>[WhiteElo "2735"]
>[BlackElo "2625"]
>[ECO "E 67"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>
>
> 1. c4 e5 2. g3 d6 3. Bg2 g6 4. d4 Nd7 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Nf3 Ngf6 7. O-O O-O 8.
>Qc2 Re8 9. Rd1 c6 10. b3 Qe7 11. Ba3 e4 12. Ng5 e3 13. f4 Nf8 14. b4 Bf5
>15. Qb3 h6 16. Nf3 Ng4 17. b5 g5 18. bxc6 bxc6 19. Ne5 gxf4 20. Nxc6 Qg5
>21. Bxd6 Ng6 22. Nd5 Qh5 23. h4 Nxh4 24. gxh4 Qxh4 25. Nde7+ Kh8 26. Nxf5
>Qh2+ 27. Kf1 Re6 28. Qb7 {
>[d] r6k/pQ3pb1/2NBr2p/5N2/2PP1pn1/4p3/P3P1Bq/R2R1K2 b - -
>
>Put this game in your favorite engine and play the remaining moves from here -
>watch the evaluations as you play the moves!  An absolutely superb game from
>superb players.  39. Bxh3 was  a mistake, but the game was really over after
>28... Rg6 move.  It may take  few moves for engines to see that.
>}
>Rg6 29. Qxa8+ Kh7 30. Qg8+ Kxg8 31. Nce7+ Kh7 32.
>Nxg6 fxg6 33. Nxg7 Nf2 34. Bxf4 Qxf4 35. Ne6 Qh2 36. Rdb1 Nh3 37. Rb7+ Kg8
>38. Rb8+ Qxb8 39. Bxh3 Qg3
>0-1

Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733, finds Rg6 in less than one second, and gives it a
drawish score after 11 seconds. The final drawing PV includes all moves up to
and including 33.Nxg7....

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	8.30	2637		1...Rg8 2.Nce7 Rd8
0:00	1/4	8.17	6129		1...Rg8 2.Nce7 Rd8 3.c5
0:00	1/4	4.61	15261		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nfe7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.Nxa7
0:00	1/5	4.55	22928		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nfe7+ Kh8 5.Nxg6+ fxg6 6.Nxa7 Qg3
0:01	1/6	4.01	86561		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh8 5.Nxg6+ fxg6 6.Ne7
					Kh7 7.Rac1 Qg3
0:02	1/7	2.33	144695		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.c5 gxf5
					7.Rac1 Qg3
0:03	1/8	2.33	253146		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.c5 gxf5
					7.Rac1 Qg3
0:11	1/9	0.05	840577		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.Rab1
					gxf5 7.Rb7 Qh4 8.Rxg7+ Kxg7
0:22	1/10	0.00	1850087		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.Rab1
					gxf5 7.Rb7 Qh4 8.Kg1 Qh2+ 9.Kf1
0:42	2/11	0.00	3608885		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.Rab1
					gxf5 7.Rb7 Qh4 8.Kg1 Qh2+ 9.Kf1
1:51	3/12	0.00	9909302		1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.Rab1
					gxf5 7.c5 Qg3 8.Kg1 Qh2+ 9.Kf1
5:20	4/13	0.00	30771772	1...Rg6 2.Qxa8+ Kh7 3.Qg8+ Kxg8
					4.Nce7+ Kh7 5.Nxg6 fxg6 6.Nxg7
					Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1

After forcing all of those moves, it takes eight seconds and depth 10 to see
33...Nf2 as winning, so you can draw your own conclusions about how soon The
King would see the win at tournament time controls:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	0.00	790		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:00	1/4	0.00	1355		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:00	1/5	0.00	2639		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:00	1/6	0.00	4884		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:00	1/7	0.00	29548		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:00	1/8	0.00	42807		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:00	1/9	0.00	69811		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:01	2/10	0.00	201785		6...Qg3 7.Kg1 Qh2+ 8.Kf1
0:08	2/10	-1.12	791508		6...Nf2 7.Bxf4 Qxf4 8.Nh5 gxh5
					9.Kg1 Nxd1 10.Rxd1 Qf2+ 11.Kh2
					Qxe2 12.Rc1 Qxa2 13.c5
0:18	3/11	-1.56	1746264		6...Nf2 7.Bxf4 Qxf4 8.Nh5 gxh5
					9.Kg1 Nxd1 10.Rxd1 Qf2+ 11.Kh1
					Qxe2 12.Rc1 Qg4 13.d5
0:52	4/12	-2.09	5277015		6...Nf2 7.Bxf4 Qxf4 8.Kg1 Nxd1
					9.Rxd1 Qf2+ 10.Kh2 Kxg7 11.c5 Qxe2
					12.Rb1 Qxa2 13.Rb8 Kf6
2:11	5/13	-1.89	13871139	6...Nf2 7.Bxf4 Qxf4 8.Ne6 Qh2 9.Rdb1
					Nh3 10.Ke1 Qxg2 11.Kd1 Qe4 12.Kc1
					Qxe6 13.Rb7+ Kg8 14.d5 Qf6

jm



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