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Subject: Re: Funny pos

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 01:23:56 08/10/03

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On August 09, 2003 at 20:45:47, John Merlino wrote:

>On August 09, 2003 at 17:25:47, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 2003 at 15:38:47, Yar wrote:
>>
>>>On August 09, 2003 at 15:16:21, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 09, 2003 at 15:05:39, Yar wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello !
>>>>>
>>>>>What is your engine says about this pos ?
>>>>>[D] r1r3kb/pp2pp2/1q1p1npB/6Q1/2nNPNP1/PP3P2/2P5/2KR3R b - - 0 20
>>>>>
>>>>>Have a nice day
>>>>>
>>>>>Yar
>>>>
>>>>Not sure what the best move is, but Chessmaster 9000, on a P4-2.4, seems to
>>>>think that White has a winning position, and Black's best move is Qa5:
>>>>
>>>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>>>0:00	1/3	-0.09	10262		20...Qa6 21.a4 Rc5 22.Nf5
>>>>0:00	1/4	0.05	13991		20...Qa6 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kb1 Rxc4
>>>>					23.Qb5
>>>>0:00	1/4	-0.04	15233		20...Ne5 21.Qh4 Qa5 22.Bg5 Qxa3+
>>>>					23.Kb1
>>>>0:00	1/5	-0.48	59871		20...Ne5 21.Kb1 Rc3 22.Nd5 Nxd5
>>>>					23.exd5
>>>>0:01	1/6	1.23	171470		20...Ne5 21.Bf8 Rxf8 22.Nf5 Nh5
>>>>					23.Nxe7+ Kh7 24.Nxh5
>>>>0:02	1/6	0.66	341051		20...Qa6 21.a4 Ne5 22.Qh4 Nxf3
>>>>					23.Nxf3 Qc6 24.Rh2 Qxe4
>>>>0:04	1/6	0.40	721414		20...Qc5 21.Qxc5 dxc5 22.Nde2 Ne5
>>>>					23.g5 Nfd7 24.Nd5
>>>>0:04	1/7	0.40	767801		20...Qc5 21.Qxc5 dxc5 22.Nde2 Ne5
>>>>					23.g5 Nfd7 24.Nd5
>>>>0:10	1/8	0.51	1681398		20...Qc5 21.Qxc5 dxc5 22.Nde2 Ne5
>>>>					23.g5 Nfd7 24.Nd5 Re8 25.Rhf1
>>>>0:27	1/8	0.43	4813745		20...Qa5 21.Qxa5 Nxa5 22.Nfe2 e5
>>>>					23.Bd2 Rc5 24.b4 Rcc8 25.g5 Nc4
>>>>					26.gxf6 exd4
>>>>0:51	1/9	1.34	8887359		20...Qa5 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kd2 Nxe4+
>>>>					23.fxe4 Bf6 24.Qd5 e5 25.Nb5 Qb4+
>>>>					26.c3 Qb2+ 27.Kd3 exf4 28.Qxb7
>>>>4:05	1/10	1.56	43122326	20...Qa5 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kd2 Nxe4+
>>>>					23.fxe4 Bf6 24.Qd5 e5 25.Nb5 Qb4+
>>>>					26.Kd3 exf4 27.Bxf4 Rc5 28.Qxb7
>>>>					Qxc4+ 29.Ke3
>>>>
>>>>jm
>>>John,
>>>
>>>This is mate i wonder just how many moves ?
>>
>>The eval continue to rise, may be it will find the mate after some hours
>>
>>CM9000-SKR (Barton 2800+)
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>0:33	1/9	0.90	8528166		20...Qa5 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kd2 Nxe4+
>>					23.fxe4 Bf6 24.Qd5 e5 25.Nb5 Qb4+
>>					26.Ke2 exf4 27.Nxd6
>>1:38	1/10	1.02	25344838	20...Qa5 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kd2 Nxe4+
>>					23.fxe4 Bf6 24.Qd5 e5 25.Nb5 Qb4+
>>					26.Kd3 exf4 27.Bxf4 Rc5 28.Qxb7
>>					Qxc4+ 29.Ke3
>>4:55	1/11	1.78	79407086	20...Qa5 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kd2 Nxe4+
>>					23.fxe4 Bxd4 24.Nd5 Re8 25.Nxe7+
>>					Rxe7 26.Qxe7 Qc3+ 27.Ke2 Qxc2+
>>					28.Rd2 Qxc4+ 29.Rd3 Qb4 30.Bd2 Qb6
>>22:43	1/12	2.18	377487007	20...Qa5 21.bxc4 Qxa3+ 22.Kd2 Nxe4+
>>					23.fxe4 Bf6 24.Qd5 Qb4+ 25.c3 Qb2+
>>					26.Kd3 Rc5 27.Rb1 Qa2 28.Ra1 Qb2
>
>There may be some confusion. Yar seems to be claiming that Shredder stated that
>BLACK has the mate in 58 moves. At least, that's what I'm assuming because it is
>Black to move and Yar said "mate in 58".
>
>However, Chessmaster is saying that WHITE is winning (positive scores always
>favor White in the CM GUI).
>
>I am not at all convinced that Shredder's announcement of mate is accurate. In
>particular, I would like to see the PV (all 115 plies of it!).

Of course you are right and it is not accurate. I saw this quite often in
Analysis mode.
#62,#68,...
This is just some flaw in the program.

Michael

>
>jm



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