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Subject: Re: Is there a better move than 50.....Kg7 in Kasparov Vs Leko ?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:26:44 02/25/03

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On February 25, 2003 at 04:16:25, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>
>Can any program find the winning move from the position Kasparov vs Leko
>50...Kg7? or is there a better move. I think that some program will find the
>winning move here.
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/games/2003/03lin03.htm

Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733, does choose 50...Kg7 from 2 through 18 seconds.
It then switches to 50...g5 with a noticeably higher score:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/4	-1.60	4583		1...g5 2.Kb1 Bxb2 3.Qb8+ Kg7 4.Qxb2
0:00	1/5	-1.88	12460		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qxb2 Qc4+ 4.Ka3
					Qxe4 5.Qb8+ Kh7
0:00	1/6	-1.88	24655		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qxb2 Qc4+ 4.Ka3
					Qxe4 5.Qb8+ Kh7
0:00	1/7	-1.89	56289		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qxb2 Qc4+ 4.Ka3
					Qxe4 5.Qb8+ Kh7 6.a5
0:01	1/8	-1.67	122838		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qxb2 Qc4+ 4.Ka3
					Qxe4 5.Qb8+ Kh7 6.a5 Qd3+ 7.Ka4 f5
0:02	1/8	-1.78	211227		1...Kg7 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qxb2 Qc4+
					4.Ka3 Qxe4 5.a5 Qd3+ 6.Qb3 Qd6+
					7.Qb4 Qa6
0:04	2/9	-1.99	350709		1...Kg7 2.Qb3 Bxb2+ 3.Qxb2 Qe1+
					4.Qb1 Qd2 5.Qb5 Qd4+ 6.Ka2 Qxe4
					7.a5 f5
0:15	3/10	-1.71	1352818		1...Kg7 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qxb2 Qc4+
					4.Ka3 Qxe4 5.a5 Qd3+ 6.Qb3 Qd6+
					7.Qb4 Qa6 8.Qb6
0:19	3/10	-2.28	1716582		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qb8+ Kg7 4.Qxb2
					Qc4+ 5.Ka3 Qxe4 6.a5 g4 7.Qh2
0:34	4/11	-2.29	3150260		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qb8+ Kg7 4.Qxb2
					Qc4+ 5.Ka3 Qxe4 6.a5 g4 7.Qc3 f5
					8.a6
1:23	5/12	-2.43	8003724		1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qb8+ Kg7 4.Qxb2
					Qc4+ 5.Ka3 Qxe4 6.a5 g4 7.Qd2 Qf3+
					8.Ka2 f5 9.a6
4:42	6/13	-2.42	27033692	1...g5 2.Ka2 Bxb2 3.Qb8+ Kg7 4.Qxb2
					Qc4+ 5.Ka3 Qxe4 6.Qd2 Qf3+ 7.Kb2
					Qb7+ 8.Kc1 Qc6+ 9.Qc2 Qh1+ 10.Qd1
					Qa8

jm



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