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Subject: Re: Perhaps the ultimate materialism test position:Can programs avoid Nxa8?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:15:27 03/14/03

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On March 14, 2003 at 21:33:25, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>The following astonishing position is taken from the game Atalik vs Gufeld
>Losangeles 2000:
>[D]r1b2rk1/1pNnq1b1/1B1p2n1/P2Pp2p/4Pp2/5Pp1/1P2B1PP/R2QNRK1 w
>Here Atalik played 21.h3 .In fact incorrect would be 21.Nxa8? However the
>analysis of why is very difficult and Complicated.Here are two sample lines
>given by Gufeld  A)21.Nxa8 Nxb6 22.Nxb6 Qh4 23.h3 Bxh3 24.gxh3 Qxh3 25.Rf2 gxf2
>26.Kxf2 Qh2+ 27.Ng2 Nh4 28.Qh1 Qg3+ 29.Kf1 Nxf3 30.Bxf3 Qxf3+ 31.Kg1 Qxe4
>32.Qh4 Qd4+ 33.Qf2 e4 34.Ra4 Qd1+ 35.Qe1 Qxe1+ 36.Nxe1 f3 37.Nc2 Rf4
>B) same as A) until 28: 28.Qf1 Rf6 29.Nc8 Bf8 30.Qh1 Qg3+ 31.Kf1 Nxf3 32.Rd1 Rg6
>All with advantage to Black.
>please indicate your result.

Score has dropped pretty low, but crafty has not found it by ply 17:

              17    11:59   0.88   1. Nxa8 Nxb6 2. Nxb6 Qh4 3. h3 Bxh3
                                   4. gxh3 Qxh3 5. Rf2 gxf2+ 6. Kxf2 Qg3+
                                   7. Kf1 h4 8. Bc4 h3 9. Ke2 Qh2+ 10.
                                   Kd3 Qxb2 11. Ra2 Qd4+ 12. Ke2 Qc3
             time=16:39  cpu=99%  mat=1  n=549752604  fh=89%  nps=550k
             ext-> chk=13023928 cap=2142702 pp=1781739 1rep=1954652 mate=372481

             predicted=0  nodes=549752604  evals=176775996
             endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
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