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Subject: Re: Phoenix Genius finds pawn sacrifice while Chessmaster can't(corr..)

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 12:31:08 08/08/03

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On August 08, 2003 at 15:26:46, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>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
>
>Yes CM9000 SKR don't find this move, but this doesn't prove nothing of course.
>Genius Phoenix for example don't find this pawn sacrifice by M.Tal in 3 minutes
>on a PIV-1500MHz,while CM9000 SKR find this in 43 seconds.
>Anyway i will try to make a 50 game between these two, because i'm sure
>CM9000-SKR is much better from Genius-Phoenix.
1.f6!

[D]rnbqnrk1/5ppp/pp1b4/3NpP2/P2N4/8/1PP1B1PP/R1BQ1R1K w - - 0 1

>Analysis by CM9000 SKR in a PIV 1500 MHz:
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:01	1/7	0.41	90477		1.Nd4-b3 Bc8-b7 2.Bc1-e3 Nb8-d7
>					3.a4-a5 b6-b5 4.c2-c4 Ne8-f6
>0:02	1/8	0.53	238445		1.Nd4-b3 Bc8-b7 2.Be2-f3 Qd8-h4
>					3.g2-g3 Qh4-d8 4.Bc1-e3 Nb8-d7
>					5.Nd5-e7+ Qd8xe7 6.Bf3xb7
>0:10	1/9	0.46	1011403		1.Nd4-b3 Nb8-d7 2.Be2-f3 Ra8-b8
>					3.a4-a5 Bc8-b7 4.Bc1-e3 Ne8-c7
>					5.Nd5xb6 Qd8-e7
>0:21	1/10	0.52	2321101		1.Nd4-b3 Nb8-d7 2.Be2-f3 Ra8-b8
>					3.a4-a5 Ne8-f6 4.Bc1-g5 Bc8-b7
>					5.c2-c4 Rf8-e8 6.Qd1-d3 Bb7xd5
>					7.Bf3xd5 b6xa5
>0:43	1/10	0.86	4705484		1.f5-f6 e5xd4 2.f6xg7 Kg8xg7 3.Qd1xd4+
>					Kg7-g8 4.Bc1-h6 Nb8-c6 5.Qd4xb6
>					Qd8-h4 6.Bh6-f4 Bd6xf4 7.Rf1xf4
>					Qh4-h6
>1:31	1/11	0.85	9626990		1.f5-f6 e5xd4 2.f6xg7 Kg8xg7 3.Qd1xd4+
>					Kg7-g8 4.Bc1-h6 Bc8-e6 5.Be2-c4
>					Nb8-c6 6.Qd4-e4 Bd6-e5 7.Bh6xf8
>					Kg8xf8 8.Qe4xh7



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