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Subject: Re: Phoenix Genius finds pawn sacrifice while Chessmaster can't

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:18:57 08/08/03

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On August 08, 2003 at 14:37:25, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>The following position is from Karpov - Yusupov 1988.  This is what FM Graham
>Burgess says about what he considers the brilliant move 16 d5!!
>
>"This pawn sacrifice both gives the white knight an ideal post in the centre and
>opens several lines for the other white pieces."
>
>Phoenix Genius finds the pawn sacrifice in 1'29" with a plus score of 1.03 while
>Chessmaster default and SKR can't even find it after 5 minutes.
>
>[D] 4r2r/pp1nkp1p/2p1b1p1/5q2/2BP4/4QN2/PP3PPP/4RK1R w - - 0 1

For clarification purposes, a 5-minute search with CM9000 (default) on a P3-733
gives Ng5, with a score of 0.78 for White. Note that CM wants to play Ng5 and
THEN the pawn sacrifice:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	1.33	3223		1.Ng5 Kd8 2.Nxe6+ fxe6 3.Bxe6
0:00	1/4	1.33	6205		1.Ng5 Kd8 2.Nxe6+ fxe6 3.Bxe6
0:00	1/5	1.29	30169		1.Ng5 Nf8 2.Kg1 h6 3.Qa3+ c5 4.Nxe6
					Nxe6 5.dxc5
0:01	1/6	1.16	132133		1.Ng5 Nf8 2.h4 h6 3.Bd3 Qf6
0:04	1/7	1.21	342523		1.Ng5 Nb6 2.Bxe6 fxe6 3.Qxe6+ Qxe6
					4.Nxe6 Kd6
0:08	1/8	1.19	788825		1.Ng5 Nb6 2.Bxe6 fxe6 3.Qxe6+ Qxe6
					4.Rxe6+ Kd8 5.Re2 Kd7 6.Ne4
0:28	1/9	0.98	2694152		1.Ng5 Nf8 2.Kg1 Kd8 3.Qg3 Kd7 4.Bd3
					Qa5 5.Nf3 Qxa2
1:19	1/10	0.91	7615351		1.Ng5 Kd8 2.Nxe6+ fxe6 3.Qb3 Rhf8
					4.f3 Qg4 5.Qxb7 Rxf3+ 6.gxf3 Qxf3+
					7.Kg1 Qg4+ 8.Kf2 Qxd4+ 9.Kg3 Qxc4
					10.Qxa7
3:41	2/11	0.78	21730648	1.Ng5 Nf8 2.d5 cxd5 3.Bd3 Qf6 4.Nxe6
					fxe6 5.Qxa7 Qxb2 6.Rb1 Qd2 7.Rxb7+
					Kf6

jm



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