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Subject: Re: Average Engine but a fascinating game !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:01:03 07/07/03

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On July 07, 2003 at 14:32:04, Geoff wrote:

>Hi
>
>Just thought I would post this game as it is easily the most interesting game my
>engine has played to date. It is my favourite even though I lost this one. The
>opponent was Gerbil(Black) Bruce Moreland's average strength program.
>My program is usually not particularly attacking but seemed to be in a bed
>temper and really aggressive mood today ;-)
>After 29 moves it had got Gerbil cowering in the corner with a strong kingside
>attack, all blacks major pieces on 6 adjacent squares. Here is the position if I
>can get this thing to display
>
>[D]4rqn1/p3brk1/R5p1/6Bp/1p5Q/1B1R4/PPP2PPP/6K1 w - - 0 30
>
>
>Then my program then played Rxg6+ on move 30.

Rxg6+ is a winning move
Rg3 was the first blunder later.
Rxh5+ was another blunder

New game
4rqn1/p3brk1/R5p1/6Bp/1p5Q/1B1R4/PPP2PPP/6K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 8:

1.Re3! Bc5 2.Bxf7 Qxf7 3.h3
  +-  (3.03)   Depth: 5/24   00:00:00  112kN
1.Re3 Bc5 2.Bxf7 Qxf7 3.h3
  +-  (3.03)   Depth: 6/23   00:00:00  161kN
1.Re3 Bc5 2.Bxf7 Qxf7 3.h3
  +-  (3.03)   Depth: 7/7   00:00:00  161kN
1.Re3 Bc5 2.Bxf7 Qxf7 3.h3
  +-  (3.03)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00  292kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (3.06)   Depth: 8/29   00:00:04  1594kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (3.22)   Depth: 8/29   00:00:04  1603kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (3.53)   Depth: 8/29   00:00:04  1619kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (4.16)   Depth: 8/29   00:00:04  1661kN
1.Rxg6+ Kxg6 2.Rh3 Qh6 3.Qe4+ Kg7 4.Bxh6+ Nxh6 5.Bxf7
  +-  (5.53)   Depth: 8/35   00:00:04  1787kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (5.81)   Depth: 9/27   00:00:04  1890kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (6.09)   Depth: 9/27   00:00:05  1950kN
1.Rxg6+!
  +-  (6.66)   Depth: 9/30   00:00:05  2045kN
1.Rxg6+ Kxg6 2.Rh3 Qh6 3.Qe4+ Kg7 4.Bxh6+ Nxh6 5.Rg3+ Ng4 6.Qe5+ Rf6
  +-  (7.31)   Depth: 9/33   00:00:05  2270kN
1.Rxg6+ Kxg6 2.Rh3 Qh6 3.Qe4+ Kg7 4.Bxh6+ Nxh6 5.Rg3+ Ng4 6.Qe5+ Rf6
  +-  (7.31)   Depth: 10/33   00:00:09  3415kN
1.Rxg6+ Kxg6 2.Rh3 Qh6 3.Qe4+ Kg7 4.Bxh6+ Nxh6 5.Rg3+ Ng4 6.Qe5+ Rf6
  +-  (7.31)   Depth: 11/31   00:00:16  5992kN
1.Rxg6+ Kxg6 2.Rh3 Qh6 3.Qe4+ Kg7 4.Bxh6+ Nxh6 5.Rg3+ Ng4 6.Qe5+ Rf6 7.Qxh5 Rg6
8.Qd5 Rd8
  +-  (7.09)   Depth: 12/33   00:00:31  12894kN

(Blass, Tel-Aviv 07.07.2003)

Movei also can see big evaluation for Rxg6+ in a short time

depth=7 +6.89 a6g6 g7g6 d3h3 g6f5 g5e7 f8h6 h3f3 f5e5 e7d6 e5d6 h4b4 d6d7 f3f7
g8e7
Nodes: 2695548 NPS: 204518
Time: 00:00:13.18

depth=9 +9.28 a6g6 g7g6 d3h3 f8h6 h4e4 g6g7 g5h6 g8h6 b3f7 h6f7 h3g3 g7f8 e4f4
e7c5
Nodes: 10725689 NPS: 202028
Time: 00:00:53.09
depth=10 +9.80 a6g6 g7g6 d3h3 f8h6 h4e4 g6g7 g5h6 g8h6 h3g3 h6g4 g3g4 h5g4 e4g4
e7g5 g4g5 g7f8 g5h6 f8e7 b3f7 e7f7 h6f4 f7g6 f4b4
Nodes: 16360840 NPS: 204689
Time: 00:01:19.93


>
>Obviously this was a stupid move, throwing away the rook, which then led to my
>program losing. Must be yet another bug for me to fix.

I do not know.
Maybe your program saw the win when it played Rxg6+ but forgot it later.

Uri



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