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Subject: Re: Difficult Test Position (GLC 3.00)

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 13:00:05 07/26/03

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On July 26, 2003 at 15:35:43, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>The following position is from the Kasparov -Kramnik match (London 2000)
>[D]Q7/8/5pk1/PpP3p1/6n1/3qB1PK/1P3P2/8 b - - 0 1
>In this position Kasparov played 62...Qf5 and later drew .For some reason this
>move is hard to find even for modern chess programs and fast hardware.It takes
>12 hours and 50 minuties for Chessmaster 9000 on a 1.8 gig machine to find
>62...Qf5 and with it a 0.00 score.It does this at ply 16.At this ply it gives
>the PV 62...Qf5 63.Kg2 Nxe3+ 64.fxe3 Qc2+  65.Kh1 Qd1+ 66.Kg2 Qc2+.
>Please indicate the result for your program.

GLC 3.00, AXP 1.47GHz, 24MB Hash...

8 seconds to choose Qf5.
2:30 to see that it is a draw.

Cheers, Tim.  GLC site --> http://www.7sun.com/chess

Analysis:

 Game stage: Endgame
 Current eval: -3.096
 Ply   Time   Score   Nodes  Principal variation
  5   0.010  -1.464    9873  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. fxe3 Qf5+ 4. g4 Qxc5 5. e4
  6   0.020  -1.844   17356  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. fxe3 Qf5+ 4. g4 Qxc5 5. Qe4+
                               Kg7 6. a6
  6   0.030  -1.844   30814  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. fxe3 Qf5+ 4. g4 Qxc5 5. Qe4+
                               Kg7 6. a6
  7   0.040  -1.612   42826  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. fxe3 Qf5+ 4. g4 Qxc5 5. Qe4+
                               Kg7 6. b4 Qc4
  7   0.090  -1.612   97883  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. fxe3 Qf5+ 4. g4 Qxc5 5. Qe4+
                               Kg7 6. b4 Qc4
  8   0.140  -1.610  149640  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. Qxf1 g4+ 4. Kh4 Nxf1 5. a6 Nd2
                               6. a7 Nf3+ 7. Kxg4 Ne5+ 8. Kf4
  8   0.281  -1.610  296368  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. Qxf1 g4+ 4. Kh4 Nxf1 5. a6 Nd2
                               6. a7 Nf3+ 7. Kxg4 Ne5+ 8. Kf4
  9   2.053  -2.010 1960166  Qf1+ {--} 2. Qg2 Nxe3 3. Qxf1 g4+ 4. Kh4 Nxf1 5.
                               a6 Nd2 6. a7 Nf3+ 7. Kxg4 Ne5+ 8. Kh3 Ng4 9.
                               a8=Q
  9   2.674  -2.163 2578979  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Qd3 3. b4 Qf5 4. Bd2 Nxf2+ 5. Kh2 Ng4+
                               6. Kg1 Qb1+ 7. Qf1 Qxf1+ 8. Kxf1 Ne5
  9   3.165  -2.163 3046540  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Qd3 3. b4 Qf5 4. Bd2 Nxf2+ 5. Kh2 Ng4+
                               6. Kg1 Qb1+ 7. Qf1 Qxf1+ 8. Kxf1 Ne5
 10   4.767  -2.139 4543127  Qf1+ 2. Qg2 Qb1 3. Qd5 Nxe3 4. fxe3 Qxb2 5. c6 Qa1
                               6. Qe4+ Kg7 7. Qe7+ Kg6 8. Qb4
 10   7.862  -1.839 7289382  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Kh3 Qxf3
                               6. Qf8+ Kh7 7. Qe7+ Kg6 8. Bd4
 10   8.152  -1.839 7569107  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Kh3 Qxf3
                               6. Qf8+ Kh7 7. Qe7+ Kg6 8. Bd4
 11  14.371  -1.439  13215k  Qf5 {++} 2. Qe8+ Kg7 3. Qxb5 Nxe3+ 4. Kh2 Qxf2+ 5.
                               Kh3
 11  16.985  -1.347  15543k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kg7 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Qh5 Nc4
                               6. Bc1 Nxa5 7. b4 Nc6
 11  17.545  -1.347  16137k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kg7 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Qh5 Nc4
                               6. Bc1 Nxa5 7. b4 Nc6
 Generating internal KP-K end-game table...
 Done (0.201 secs)
 12  32.367  -0.947  29403k  Qf5 {++} 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Qxb5 Nxe3+ 4. Kh2 Qxf2+ 5.
                               Kh3
 12  42.081  -0.780  38203k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qe2 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Kg2 Qxb2
                               10. a6
 12  46.828  -0.780  42601k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qe2 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Kg2 Qxb2
                               10. a6
 13 1:51.69  -0.380  99283k  Qf5 {++} 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2
                               Qxf3+ 6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qd2 8. Qxb5 Qxf2+ 9.
                               Kh3
 13 2:29.47  +0.000 132966k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 13 2:31.42  +0.000 135044k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 14 3:19.66  +0.000 178930k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 14 3:23.55  +0.000 183075k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 15 5:24.85  +0.000 291091k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 15 5:33.27  +0.000 299856k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 16 10:58.0  +0.000 593287k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
 16 11:21.3  +0.000 616590k  Qf5 2. Qe8+ Kh6 3. Kg2 Qd5+ 4. f3 Ne5 5. Bf2 Qxf3+
                               6. Kg1 Qd1+ 7. Kh2 Qf1 8. Qh8+ Kg6 9. Qg8+ Kh6
                               10. Qh8+
Analyse>exit
 local:  t=11:39.3  nps=904154.6  n=632271668 (29.5% / 70.5%)
 total:  t=27:17.1  nps=749985.4  n=1227789819
 stats:  fh=88.8%/4.30%/1.505%  draws=905461
 trans:  probes=185482605  hits=35320114 (19.04%)  draft=24838690 (13.39%)
 tcuts:  exact=1041 (0.00%)  upper=18775791 (10.12%)  lower=4722815 (2.55%)
 tstor:  exact=1026 (0.00%)  upper=78540856 (70.27%)  lower=33223630 (29.73%)
 ext:  check=71731680  recap=2221359  ppush=2835902  1rep=5146422  thrt=0
 q-moves:  gen=205946153  tested=135406338  made/un=63479141  max-dep=9
 max eval diff:  part-1=5.781  part-2=1.218



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