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Subject: Re: Two moves to avoid

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 22:57:03 07/18/03

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On July 19, 2003 at 00:10:49, John Merlino wrote:

>In a game recently played on ICC, Chessmaster 9000 defeated what appeared to be
>a Crafty clone (khmcrafty) rather easily thanks to two blunders. The game was a
>blitz affair of 3 0. Here are the two positions:
>
>[D]r1b1r1k1/p1p2ppp/2p5/4P3/1b1pQPnq/2NB3P/PPP3P1/R1B2R1K b - - 0 14
>
>khm played 14...Nf2+?? It looks good, but it fails. CM9000 much prefers dxc3.
>
>After 14...Nf2+ 15.Rxf2, khm has one more chance to save the game by playing
>dxc3.
>
>[D]r1b1r1k1/p1p2ppp/2p5/4P3/1b1pQP1q/2NB3P/PPP2RP1/R1B4K b - - 0 15
>
>Instead it follows through and plays 15...Qxf2, and ends up resigning 10 moves
>later!
>
>Does your program avoid both of these moves?
>
>Here's the whole game:
>
>[Event "ICS rated blitz match"]
>[Site "chessclub.com"]
>[Date "2003.07.18"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "CM9000"]
>[Black "khmcrafty"]
>[TimeControl "180"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[WhiteELO "2561"]
>[BlackELO "2490"]
>
>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 O-O
>8.O-O d5 9.e5 Ng4 10.Qe1 Re8 11.f4 Qe7 12.Kh1 d4 13.Qe4 Qh4 14.h3 Nf2+
>15.Rxf2 Qxf2 16.Qxh7+ Kf8 17.Ne4 Qe1+ 18.Kh2 c5 19.Qh8+ Ke7 20.Qxg7 Bxh3
>21.Qf6+ Kf8 22.f5 Qxc1 23.Bc4 Qf4+ 24.Ng3 Re6 25.Bxe6 1-0
>
>jm

he probably had a slow machine or a modified crafty -- normal crafty moves off
these moves in just a few seconds...

Rebel 12 - Byrne,M
r1b1r1k1/p1p2ppp/2p5/4P3/1b1pQPnq/2NB3P/PPP3P1/R1B2R1K b - - 0 1

Analysis by Crafty 19.04 ORI:

1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Qxh7+ Kf8 4.Ne4 Qe1+ 5.Kh2
  µ  (-1.33)   Depth: 4   00:00:00
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Nb5 Qh4 4.Nxd4
  µ  (-1.18)   Depth: 5   00:00:00
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Nb5 Qh4 4.Nxd4
  µ  (-1.18)   Depth: 5   00:00:00
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Nb5 f5 4.Qxc6 Qe1+ 5.Kh2
  µ  (-1.12)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  110kN
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Nb5 f5 4.Qxc6 Qe1+ 5.Kh2
  µ  (-1.12)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  223kN
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Qxh7+ Kf8 4.Ne2 Be6 5.Qh8+ Ke7 6.Qxg7 Rg8 7.Qf6+ Kd7
  ³  (-0.42)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  422kN
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Qxh7+ Kf8 4.Ne2 Be6 5.Qh8+ Ke7 6.Qxg7 Rg8 7.Qf6+ Kd7
  ³  (-0.42)   Depth: 7   00:00:01  986kN
1...Nf2+ 2.Rxf2 Qxf2 3.Qxh7+ Kf8 4.Ne4 Qe1+ 5.Kh2 c5 6.Qh8+ Ke7 7.Qxg7 c4 8.Bd2
Qxa1 9.Bxb4+
  ²  (0.53)   Depth: 8   00:00:01  1644kN
1...dxc3 2.Qxb4 Nxe5 3.Qe4 f5 4.Qe1 Qxe1 5.Rxe1 cxb2 6.Bxb2
  ³  (-0.29)   Depth: 8   00:00:03  2874kN
1...dxc3 2.Qxb4 Nxe5 3.Qe4 f5 4.Qe1 Qxe1 5.Rxe1 cxb2 6.Bxb2
  ³  (-0.29)   Depth: 8   00:00:04  4082kN
1...dxc3 2.Qxb4 Nf2+ 3.Kg1 cxb2 4.Bxb2 Nxh3+ 5.gxh3 Bxh3 6.Rf3 Qg4+ 7.Kf2
  =  (-0.05)   Depth: 9   00:00:05  5063kN
1...dxc3 2.Qxb4 Nf2+ 3.Kg1 cxb2 4.Bxb2 Nxh3+ 5.gxh3 Bxh3 6.Rf3 Qg4+ 7.Kf2
  =  (-0.05)   Depth: 9   00:00:09  10108kN
1...dxc3
  ³  (-0.45)   Depth: 10   00:00:13  14097kN
1...dxc3 2.Qxb4 Nf2+ 3.Kh2 Nxh3 4.gxh3 Bxh3 5.Rh1 Bg4+ 6.Kg1 Qg3+ 7.Kf1 Bh3+
8.Rxh3 Qxh3+ 9.Kg1
  ³  (-0.56)   Depth: 10   00:00:15  17006kN
1...dxc3 2.Qxb4 Nf2+ 3.Kh2 Nxh3 4.gxh3 Bxh3 5.Rh1 Bg4+ 6.Kg1 Qg3+ 7.Kf1 Bh3+
8.Rxh3 Qxh3+ 9.Kg1
  ³  (-0.56)   Depth: 10   00:00:22  24798kN

(Byrne, Secane, PA USA 19.07.2003)




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