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Subject: Re: Summer problem for FritzMark fans : finding the FritzMark position

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 08:49:35 07/04/03

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On July 04, 2003 at 09:44:21, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

>A few years ago somebody from Sweden (sorry, haven't kept the author's name or
>the reference) gave the FritzMark position as :
>1r5r/3b1pk1/3p1np1/p1qPp3/p1N1PbP1/2P2PN1/1PB1Q1K1/R3R3 b - - 0 1
>
>I recently had a new look at it and compared with the FritzMark PVs given by
>Fritz 7 :
>1...Bb5 2.Bd3 a4 3.Rh1 Rbc8 4.Nd2
>  ³  (-0.44)   Depth: 6/23   00:00:00  84kN
>1...Bb5 2.Bd3 a4 3.Rh1 Rbc8 4.Nd2 Rb8
>  ³  (-0.50)   Depth: 7/22   00:00:00  129kN
>1...Rhc8!
>  ³  (-0.53)   Depth: 7/25   00:00:01  234kN
>1...Rhc8 2.Bd3 a4 3.Rh1 Bxg3 4.Kxg3 Bb5 5.Ne3 Bxd3
>  ³  (-0.56)   Depth: 7/25   00:00:01  248kN
>1...Rhc8!
>  µ  (-0.84)   Depth: 8/28   00:00:02  486kN
>1...Rhc8 2.Bd3 Bb5 3.g5 Bxg5 4.Rxa5 Qc7 5.f4 Bxf4
>  µ  (-0.84)   Depth: 9/35   00:00:04  1169kN
>1...Bb5!
>  µ  (-0.88)   Depth: 9/35   00:00:06  1418kN
>1...Bb5 2.Bd3 Rbc8 3.Rxa5 Qc7 4.Rea1 Bxc4 5.Bxc4 Qxc4 6.Qxc4 Rxc4 7.Rxa6 Rb8
>  µ  (-0.75)   Depth: 10/28   00:00:12  2979kN
>
>Obviously there is no black pawn on a4 and the corrected epd, with diagram, is :
>
>[D]1r5r/3b1pk1/3p1np1/p1qPp3/2N1PbP1/2P2PN1/1PB1Q1K1/R3R3 b - - 0 1
>
>Thus we indeed get the 65 possible black moves (FritzMark indication), but I
>have 2 problems with the position :
>1. The last FritzMark PV indicates 1...Bb5 2.Bd3 Rbc8 3.Rxa5 Qc7,
>but 2 ...Rbc8 and 3 ...Qc7 are faulty moves
>2. When you let Fritz 7 examine the position with fixed depth 10, you don't get
>the same evals and PVs.
>
>So maybe the FritzMark position isn't the one above...
>Can you find a better one, or has ChessBase told you something about it :-))  ?

I have this position stored on my drive as the Fritzmark position. I don't
remember where it came from. :-)

[D]1r5r/3b1pk1/p2p1np1/p1qPp3/2N1PbP1/2P2PN1/1PB1Q1K1/R3R3 b - - 0 1

Dave



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