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Subject: Re: Nice move for the not-so-strong engines/programs

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 12:10:33 01/12/03

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On January 12, 2003 at 14:27:47, Stan Arts wrote:

>Hello!
>
>In one of the games posted by Sedat Cambaz a few days ago, between Fritz 8 and
>The King, the following position occured:
>
>[D]3r1r1k/2q3bp/3N4/p1P1n1p1/P2BPp2/5P2/4Q1PP/R2R2K1 b - - 0 1
>
>And black played, Nxf3!
>
>It's a nice move for humans, and chessprograms to the lower end of the rating
>lists. :)   (It takes 9 halfmoves to see the combination)
>
>The strong programs probably find it in a second or so..but how long do the
>not-so-strong programs take to find Nxf3 here? (never see too many search-
>results of the weaker programs posted :(  )
>
>This is what my program S-chess (v1.41) thinks of this position on my P3-550mHz
>(and thinking in the background while I am surfing on the internet)
>It finds Nxf3 on the 9th ply, and after an hour search this is what my program
>thinks:
>
>3  -237  0    1919      Bg7-f6 a8-a8
>3  -233  0    2889      Qc7-e7 a8-a8
>4  -255  0    9529      Qc7-e7 Nd6-f5 Qe7-d7 Nf5xg7
>4  -253  0    11918     Ne5-c6 Bd4xg7 Kh8xg7 Kg1-h1
>4  -252  0    24029     Qc7-d7 Nd6-f5 Rd8-c8 Nf5xg7
>4  -247  0    40933     Rd8-a8 Nd6-f5 Ra8-c8 Nf5xg7
>5  -238  1    68768     Rd8-a8 Nd6-f5 Ra8-d8 Nf5xg7 Rd8xd4
>5  -233  1    97594     Qc7-e7 Bd4-c3 Rd8-a8 Bc3xe5
>5  -211  2    130246    g5-g4 Nd6-f5 g4xf3 g2xf3 Rd8-c8
>6  -301  4    345677    g5-g4 Nd6-b5 Qc7-b8 f3xg4 Qb8-b7
>6  -249  6    514324    Rd8-a8 Nd6-f5 Bg7-f6 Qe2-d2 Ne5-c6 Bd4-b2
>6  -245  9    742263    Ne5-c6 Bd4xg7 Qc7xg7 Qe2-b5 Qg7-d7 Nd6-f5
>7  -241  21   1581640   Ne5-c6 Bd4xg7 Qc7xg7 Qe2-b5 Rd8-c8 Nd6xc8 Qg7xa1
>7  -221  26   1909602   g5-g4 f3xg4 f4-f3 Qe2-a2 Ne5xg4 Bd4xg7 Qc7xg7
>8  -298  166  11040531  g5-g4 f3xg4 f4-f3 Qe2-f2 f3xg2 Nd6-f5 Rd8-c8 Qf2xg2
>8  -247  183  12557616  Ne5-c6 Bd4xg7 Qc7xg7 Qe2-b5 Qg7-d7 Nd6-f7 Qd7xf7 Qb5xc6
>9  -219  820  58315863  Ne5-c6 Bd4-b2 Qc7-e7 Rd1-d5 Rd8-b8 Nd6-b5 Nc6-e5 Nb5-d6
>g5-g4
>9  -204  991  68947710  g5-g4 Nd6-b5 g4xf3 g2xf3 Qc7-f7 Qe2-g2 Qf7-h5 Ra1-a3
>Rd8-c8
>9  6     1157 81019201  Ne5xf3 g2xf3 Bg7xd4 Rd1xd4 Qc7xc5 Qe2-c4 Qc5xc4 Rd4xc4
>Rd8xd6
>10 -15   1413 103620606 Ne5xf3 g2xf3 Bg7xd4 Rd1xd4 Qc7xc5 Qe2-c4 Qc5xc4 Rd4xc4
>Rd8xd6 Kg1-h1
>11 6     3017 179367100 Ne5xf3 g2xf3 Bg7xd4 Rd1xd4 Qc7xc5 Qe2-c4 Qc5xc4 Rd4xc4
>Rd8xd6 Rc4-c7
>
>Stan



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