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Subject: Re: Test Position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:19:03 01/16/03

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On January 16, 2003 at 14:25:42, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 16, 2003 at 12:29:55, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>[D]r4rk1/p2pbpp1/b1p1p3/4P1P1/q1P1NP1p/1RQ4K/P1R3BP/8 w - - 0 25
>>
>>Nf6+
>>
>>/David
>
>Perhaps that is the best move, but it appears that Nd6 also wins. Output from
>Chessmaster 9000 on a P3-733:
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	0.25	1139		25.Kxh4 Rab8 26.Nd6
>0:00	1/4	0.27	3521		25.Kxh4 Rab8 26.Nd6 Rxb3 27.axb3
>0:00	1/4	0.41	5376		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Rab8 27.Kxh4 c5
>0:00	1/5	2.04	12799		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Bxc4 27.Qxc4
>					Qa5 28.Kxh4 Qf5
>0:00	1/6	2.10	35334		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Rfb8 27.Ra3
>					Qxc4 28.Qxc4 Bxc4 29.Rxc4 Rb2 30.Rca4
>0:01	1/7	2.10	63924		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Rfb8 27.Ra3
>					Qxc4 28.Qxc4 Bxc4 29.Rxc4 Rb2 30.Rca4
>0:02	1/8	2.36	150919		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Bxc4 27.Qxc4
>					Qa5 28.Qc5 Qa4 29.Rb4 Qa3+ 30.Kxh4
>0:05	1/9	2.68	381954		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Bxc4 27.Qxc4
>					Qa5 28.Rb7 Rfd8 29.Kxh4 Qe1+ 30.Kh3
>					Qe3+ 31.Kg4
>0:11	1/10	2.76	779086		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Bxc4 27.Qxc4
>					Qa5 28.Qc5 Qe1 29.Rb7 Rfd8 30.Qc3
>					Qg1
>0:21	2/11	2.72	1669113		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Bxc4 27.Qxc4
>					Qa5 28.Qc5 Qe1 29.Rb7 Rfd8 30.Qf2
>					Qd1 31.Rd2
>1:20	3/12	2.90	7301269		25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 f6 27.g6 Rfb8
>					28.Ra3 Qxc4 29.Qxc4 Bxc4 30.Rxc4
>					Rb2 31.Rca4 a6 32.Rxa6 Rc8 33.Ra7
>4:24	4/13	2.88	23894117	25.Nd6 Bxd6 26.exd6 Bxc4 27.Qxc4
>					Qa5 28.Qc5 Qa6 29.Kxh4 Rfb8 30.Qa3
>					Qc8 31.Rxb8 Qxb8 32.Rb2

Ruffian also likes Nd6, but thought long and hard on Nf6+ on each of the late
passes.

E:\programme\winboard\ruffian>ruffian -h 300M -T \nd6.epd -t 9999 -p 19
Hash size 314572800
Ruffian 1.0.1
feature done=0
Loading configuration: ruffian.cfg
Warning: EGTB_HASH_SIZE changed, default=1048576, newvalue=8388608
Logfile: Thu Jan 16 14:08:36 2003
Total hash size 300M
Initializing tablebases: /programme/winboard/nalimov
Testing \nd6.epd, 9999 seconds, extra ply 19
Testing: test 1   Solution: Nf6+ Nd6
  r4rk1/p2pbpp1/b1p1p3/4P1P1/q1P1NP1p/1RQ4K/P1R3BP/8 w - -
  Depth   Time  Score    Best line
   9-->   1.05   1.84    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2
  10/20   1.53   1.95    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rc5
  10-->   1.95   1.95    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rc5
  11/24   6.24     ++    Nd6
  11/24   9.99   2.61    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 fxg5 fxg5
                         Rf2 Rxh4
  11-->  10.69   2.61    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 fxg5 fxg5
                         Rf2 Rxh4
  12/28  17.37   2.62    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 gxf6 Rxf6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4
                         Rg6 Rca4 Rxg2 Kxg2
  12-->  19.45   2.62    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 gxf6 Rxf6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4
                         Rg6 Rca4 Rxg2 Kxg2
  13/32  32.00   2.56    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rca4
                         a6 Rxa6 Rab8
  13-->  51.68   2.56    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rca4
                         a6 Rxa6 Rab8
  14/34   1:18   2.83    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 gxf6 Rxf6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4
                         Kf7 Bf3 Rf5 Kxh4 Rh8+ Kg3
  14-->   1:47   2.83    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 gxf6 Rxf6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4
                         Kf7 Bf3 Rf5 Kxh4 Rh8+ Kg3
  15/35   2:36   2.85    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 gxf6 Rxf6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4
                         Kf7 Ra5 Rf5 Rca4 Rxa5 Rxa5 Kf6 Kxh4
  15-->   3:41   2.85    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 f6 gxf6 Rxf6 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4
                         Kf7 Ra5 Rf5 Rca4 Rxa5 Rxa5 Kf6 Kxh4
  16/39   7:41   3.00    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rca4
                         a6 Rxa6 Rxa6 Rxa6 f6 Ra8+ Kh7 Be4+ f5
  16-->  16:05   3.00    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rca4
                         a6 Rxa6 Rxa6 Rxa6 f6 Ra8+ Kh7 Be4+ f5
  17/41  24:23   3.01    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 f6 gxf6
                         gxf6 Rca4 a6 Rxa6 Rxa6 Rxa6 Rb4 Kxh4 Rxf4+ Kg3
  17-->  64:02   3.01    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 f6 gxf6
                         gxf6 Rca4 a6 Rxa6 Rxa6 Rxa6 Rb4 Kxh4 Rxf4+ Kg3
  18/47  90:40   3.14    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rca4
                         Rd2 Rxa7 Rxa7 Rxa7 Rxd6 Kxh4 Rd2 Ra8+ Kh7 Be4+ g6
                         Kg3
  18--> 122:53   3.14    Nd6 Bxd6 exd6 Rfb8 Ra3 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rxc4 Rb2 Rca4
                         Rd2 Rxa7 Rxa7 Rxa7 Rxd6 Kxh4 Rd2 Ra8+ Kh7 Be4+ g6
                         Kg3



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