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Subject: Re: How many programs would play strong like Karpov did today ?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:12:42 01/11/03

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On January 11, 2003 at 15:55:18, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:

>[D]r2qk2r/pb1nbppp/1p6/2pP4/5B2/P1P2N2/2Q2PPP/R3KB1R b KQkq - 12...0-0!
>
>Off course,d5 is a poison pawn.
>
>Not a easy job for todays programs!
>
>[Event "GMA"]
>[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
>[Date "2003.01.11"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "Krasenkow,M"]
>[Black "Karpov,An"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[WhiteElo "2633"]
>[BlackElo "2688"]
>[EventDate "2003.01.11"]
>[ECO "E12"]
>
>1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. a3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Qc2 Nxc3
>8. bxc3 Nd7 9. e4 c5 10. Bf4 Be7 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 O-O 13. Rd1 Re8 14.
>Be2 c4 15. O-O Bxa3 16. Bxc4 Qf6 17. Ng5 Nf8 18. g3 h6 19. Ne4 Qf5 20. f3
>Ng6 21. Bc7 Rac8 22. Bb5 Rxc7 23. Bxe8 Bxd5 24. Nf6+ Qxf6 25. Rxd5 Rxc3 26.
>Qe4 Bc5+ 27. Kg2 Re3 28. Qa4 Re2+ 29. Kh1 Re1 0-1
>
>TL

Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733, goes with the aggressive 12...g5 all the way:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-0.52	1164		1...g5 2.d6 Bxf3 3.gxf3 gxf4 4.dxe7
					Qxe7+ 5.Be2
0:00	1/4	-0.55	3475		1...g5 2.Bg3 Bxd5 3.O-O-O
0:00	1/5	-0.15	13654		1...g5 2.Bg3 Bxd5 3.O-O-O Bxf3
					4.gxf3
0:00	1/6	-0.24	46172		1...g5 2.Bg3 Bxd5 3.O-O-O Bc6 4.Be2
					b5
0:01	1/7	-0.13	111542		1...g5 2.Bg3 Bxd5 3.O-O-O Bc6 4.Be2
					b5 5.Rhe1
0:06	1/8	-0.48	400628		1...g5 2.Be3 g4 3.Nd2 Bxd5 4.h3
					gxh3 5.Rxh3 h5
0:11	1/9	-0.26	859256		1...g5 2.Be3 g4 3.Nd2 Bxd5 4.h3
					gxh3 5.Rxh3 h5 6.Bf4
0:33	1/10	-0.29	2548537		1...g5 2.Bg3 g4 3.Nd2 Bxd5 4.h3
					Bh4 5.O-O-O Bxg3 6.fxg3 Ne5 7.hxg4
1:30	2/11	-0.16	6882033		1...g5 2.Bg3 g4 3.Nd2 Bxd5 4.O-O-O
					Qc8 5.c4 Bc6 6.Re1 Qa6 7.Qc3
4:38	3/12	-0.18	21049710	1...g5 2.Bg3 g4 3.Ne5 Nxe5 4.Bxe5
					f6 5.Qa4+ Kf7 6.Bg3 f5 7.O-O-O
					Bxd5 8.Bc4

Taking the pawn results in an eval of about 0.3 for White after 13.Rd1....

jm



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