Author: Steven J. Brann
Date: 12:25:58 05/17/03
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On May 17, 2003 at 11:17:47, Art Basham wrote: >Here black played ....QxB, and went on to win...! > >I noticed that my RexChess program does play this move at only 7 ply! > >[D]4r1k1/p1pb1ppp/Qbp1r3/8/1P6/2Pq1B2/R2P1PPP/2B2RK1 b - - > >However, Some engines and programs will not play QxB....:-) > >Was Paul Morphy just "lucky" most of the time, or was he really a chess >genius...!? > >I will let you be the judge...! Chessmaster 9000 on a 1.9G P4 256meg hash and SS=14 finds QxB in less than a second. And the evalation just keeps getting better. Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 1/6 -0.38 47864 1...Qxa6 2.Rxa6 c5 3.Bg4 R6e7 4.Bxd7 Rxd7 5.b5 c4 0:00 1/6 -0.49 60098 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Qc4+ Rge6 9.d4 0:01 1/7 -1.08 129920 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Qc4+ Kf8 6.Qh4 Bxf1 7.h3 Bg2+ 8.Kh2 Bxf3 0:02 1/8 -1.40 250275 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Qc4+ Kf8 6.Qh4 Bxf1 7.h3 Rh6 8.Qf4 Rxh3+ 9.Kg1 0:04 1/9 -1.89 720836 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Qc4+ Kh8 9.d4 Bf3 10.Be3 Bd5 11.Qe2 Bxa2 12.Qxa2 0:08 1/10 -1.89 1522402 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Qc4+ Kh8 9.d4 Bf3 10.Be3 Bd5 11.Qe2 Bxa2 12.Qxa2 0:19 1/11 -2.11 4110587 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Ra1 Be2+ 9.Qxe2 Rg1+ 10.Kxg1 Rxe2 11.d4 Rc2 12.Be3 Rxc3 13.Re1 0:51 1/12 -2.54 11239772 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Qc4+ Kf8 9.Qd3 Be2+ 10.Qxe2 Rg1+ 11.Kxg1 Rxe2 12.Ra1 Rxf2 13.d4 Rc2 2:02 1/13 -2.94 27393379 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Ba3 Rge6 9.Kg2 Be2 10.Qb1 Rg6+ 11.Kh3 Bf3 12.Qf1 Re2 13.c4 Rxf2 4:19 1/14 -3.85 59948282 1...Qxf3 2.gxf3 Rg6+ 3.Kh1 Bh3 4.Qd3 f5 5.Rd1 Bg2+ 6.Kg1 Bxf3+ 7.Kf1 Bxd1 8.Qc4+ Ree6 9.Qd3 f4 10.h4 f3 11.Qd8+ Kf7 12.Qd7+ Kf8 13.d3 Bb3 14.Qc8+ Ke7 15.Bg5+ Rxg5 Steve
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