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Subject: Re: A move commercial engines might get wrong !!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:20:26 01/04/03

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On January 04, 2003 at 14:39:40, scott farrell wrote:

>This position occured in a game chompster vs dorky on ICC  (45 10 time control
>practices for CCT5).
>
>[D]r3kb1r/pp1n1pp1/1qp1p2p/3n3P/2NP1B2/3Q2N1/PPP2PP1/R4RK1 b kq - 0 14
>
>My engine says NxB is slightly winning for black, it failed high big time at
>only depth 8 !!!
>sfarrellc(C) whispers: , D10/11(11): 0.29 : D5F4 , 25.176/48.0 secs
>
>Crafty says it is +3 winning for white.
>Dorky(C) whispers: score=+2.61 depth=13 Knps=111 cpu=99% time=87.05s
>
>Here is crafty's annotation:
>({9:+2.92} 14. ... Nxf4 15. Nxb6 Nxd3 16. Nxa8 Nxb2 17. Rab1 Ba3 18. Nc7+ Kd8
>19. Na8 +-)
>({9:+1.04} 14. ... Qd8 15. Bd2 N7b6 16. Ne5 Bd6 17. Rfe1 Qh4 18. Qe4 Qxe4 19.
>Rxe4 Bxe5 20. Rxe5 +/-)
>({9:+1.52} 14. ... Qb5 15. Bd6 Nb4 16. Qe2 Nb6 17. Bxf8 Kxf8 18. b3 Nxc4 19.
>bxc4 Qg5 +-)
>({9:+1.66} 14. ... Qa6 15. Nd6+ Bxd6 16. Qxa6 bxa6 17. Bxd6 N7f6 18. Rfe1 Rd8
>19. Bc5 Nf4 +-)
>({9:+2.03} 14. ... Qb4 15. Bd2 Qa4 16. Ne4 Qa6 17. Ncd6+ Bxd6 18. Nxd6+ Ke7 19.
>Nc4 Qb5 +-)
>
>
>NxB is a clear winner !!!! It was an easy win from there.
>
>How many other engines see this? It took 19 more moves to actually recover the
>material that my engine could see coming !!!!

Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733 never considers Nxf4:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/4	0.95	6796		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7f6
					17.Qa3
0:00	1/5	1.28	18474		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 Qh4
					17.c4 N5f6 18.Rae1 Nxh5
0:00	1/5	1.17	22222		14...Qb4 15.Bd2 Qe7 16.Rae1 Qh4
0:00	1/6	1.10	41825		14...Qb4 15.Bd6 Bxd6 16.a3 Ne5
					17.axb4 Nxd3 18.Nxd6+ Ke7 19.Nxb7
					Nxb2
0:01	1/6	0.74	62105		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7b6
					17.Bc5 Nf4 18.Qf3
0:02	1/7	0.77	136567		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7b6
					17.Bc5 Nd7 18.Rae1 Nxc5 19.dxc5
0:04	1/8	0.64	320475		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7b6
					17.Bc5 Nd7 18.Rfe1 Nxc5 19.dxc5
					O-O 20.Rad1
0:11	1/9	0.70	976383		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7b6
					17.Bc5 Qh4 18.Rfe1 O-O-O 19.c4 Nf4
0:26	1/10	0.63	2295574		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7b6
					17.Bc5 Qh4 18.Rfe1 O-O-O 19.Qa3
					Nc4 20.Qxa7 Nxb2
1:12	2/11	0.74	6479562		14...Qd8 15.Nd6+ Bxd6 16.Bxd6 N7b6
					17.Bc5 Nd7 18.Ba3 Qh4 19.c4 N5f6
					20.Bd6 O-O-O
1:46	2/11	0.65	9650045		14...Qb5 15.Bd6 N5b6 16.Bxf8 Kxf8
					17.b3 Nf6 18.a4 Qb4 19.Ne5 Nbd5
					20.Rfd1
3:03	3/12	0.56	16797261	14...Qb5 15.Bd6 N7b6 16.b3 Rd8
					17.a4 Qa6 18.Bxf8 Kxf8 19.Rfe1
					Nxc4 20.bxc4

After forcing 14...Nxf4 15.Nxb6 Nxd3 16.Nxa8 Nxb2:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/5	0.92	16397		17.a4 Bb4 18.Rfb1 Bc3 19.Ne2
0:00	1/6	0.87	35538		17.a4 Nc4 18.Rfb1 b6 19.Ne4 Kd8
					20.Rb3
0:00	1/7	0.78	73877		17.a4 Nc4 18.Rfb1 b6 19.Nc7+ Kd8
					20.Na6 Bd6 21.Ne4
0:01	1/8	0.83	142790		17.a4 Nc4 18.Rfb1 Nd6 19.f3 Be7
					20.Ne4 Nxe4 21.fxe4
0:03	1/9	0.69	326827		17.a4 Nc4 18.Rfb1 b6 19.Rb3 Bd6
					20.Rc3 Bxg3 21.Rxg3 Ke7
0:09	2/10	0.68	808880		17.a4 Nc4 18.Rfb1 b6 19.Nc7+ Kd8
					20.Na6 Bd6 21.Ne4 c5 22.c3 Be7
0:15	2/10	0.75	1369298		17.Rab1 Ba3 18.f4 Ke7 19.Nc7 Nb6
					20.f5 Bd6 21.fxe6 fxe6 22.Ne4 N2c4
0:19	3/11	0.75	1781033		17.Rab1 Ba3 18.f4 Ke7 19.Nc7 Nb6
					20.f5 Bd6 21.fxe6 fxe6 22.Ne4 N2c4
0:36	4/12	0.45	3461030		17.Rab1 Ba3 18.Rfe1 O-O 19.Re3
					Nc4 20.Rc3 b5 21.Nc7 Nf6 22.Na6
					Nd5 23.Rcb3
1:06	4/12	0.49	6035396		17.a4 Nc4 18.Rfb1 Na5 19.Ne4 Be7
					20.Nc7+ Kd8 21.Na8 b6 22.Rd1 Nc4
					23.Rab1 Nf6 24.Nxf6 Bxf6
4:14	5/13	0.19	23180659	17.a4 Nc4 18.a5 Bd6 19.Ra4 Nb2
					20.Ra2 Nc4 21.a6 b6 22.Ne4 Ke7
					23.Nxd6 Kxd6
5:37	5/13	0.43	30784831	17.Rab1 Ba3 18.Rfe1 O-O 19.Re3
					Nc4 20.Rxb7 Nxe3 21.fxe3 Nf6 22.Rxa7
					Bd6 23.Ne2 Nd5 24.Kf2

jm



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