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Subject: Re: Intersting testposition: multiple passed pawns

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 13:54:51 03/23/03

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On March 23, 2003 at 15:19:27, Alexander Kure wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I found an interesting position taken from one of my games when i was an active
>tournament player in the 1990ies:
>
>[d]8/p3b3/1k6/4p2p/K1Pp2pP/3P2P1/3N4/8 b - - 0 1
>
>Here i played the stunning Bxh4!
>The idea is that black will force 3 passed pawns that can not be stopped by
>white's knight and king.
>
>A possible continuation will be:
>1...Bxh4 2. gxh4 g3 3. Nf3 g2 4. Kb4 a5 5. Kb3 Kc5 6. Ng1 e4 7. dxe4 a4
>and the 3 black passers are too much for white to handle.
>
>I am interested in which programs will find this solution.
>
>Greetings
>Alex

Comet B60 finds 1...Bxh4 almost instantly (1 sec) with -1.47 score at depth 9.
1...Bxh4 appears again at depth 14 with -1.62 score, -2.06 at depth 15
and -2.12 at depth 16.



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