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Subject: Re: Computer opinions on antipositional move

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 08:34:27 09/02/03

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On September 02, 2003 at 08:53:59, Alastair Scott wrote:

>[D]r1b1k2r/1p1p1ppp/4pq2/8/pQP1n3/P1n2NP1/1B2PP1P/R3KB1R w KQkq - 2 15
>
>When reviewing my (human-human) games with Yace Paderborn it came across a
>stunner here: 15.g4!?
>
>I would not have thought of it for a second, yet it appears to win a piece at
>the cost of one or two pawns and a very messy position, hence the "!?". What
>does your program think?
>
>Interestingly, the "stronger" programs tend to go for g4, whereas the "weaker
>ones" (plus myself :) go for Rc1.
>

In that case the Baron must be strong ;-).

The current development version selects g4 in just over a second on a lowly
P3-500:

 ply       time        nodes  score  pv

  5(10)&   0:00.24     14434     79  a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6g7
  5(10).   0:00.31     18298     79  a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6g7
  6(13)&   0:00.52     32571     62  a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6d4 b4a2
  6(13)&   0:01.35     86339     90  g3g4 h7h6 a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4
  6(13).   0:01.43     90396     90  g3g4 h7h6 a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4
  7(15)&   0:02.73    179325     90  g3g4 h7h6 a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6g7
  7(15).   0:03.35    220206     90  g3g4 h7h6 a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6g7
  8(18)+   0:08.94    593829    125  g3g4 h7h6 h2h4 d7d6 g4g5 h6g5 h4g5 c3e2
g5f6
  8(18)&   0:10.57    707578    141  g3g4 g7g5 a1c1 f6f4 c1c3 e4c3 b4c3 h8g8
c3d3
  8(18).   0:12.25    818322    141  g3g4 g7g5 a1c1 f6f4 c1c3 e4c3 b4c3 h8g8
c3d3
  9(22)&   0:26.85   1822839    112  g3g4 h7h6 a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6g7 h8h7
g7e5
  9(22).   0:30.36   2064890    112  g3g4 h7h6 a1c1 c3a2 b2f6 a2b4 f6g7 h8h7
g7e5
 10(26)+   1:05.46   4493625    147  g3g4 h7h6 h2h4 a8a7 g4g5 h6g5 h4g5 h8h1
g5f6
 10(26)&   1:26.02   5928612    166  g3g4 h7h6 h2h4 b7b6 g4g5 f6e7 b2c3 e7b4
c3b4 h6g5
 10(26).   2:26.90   9839039    166  g3g4 h7h6 h2h4 b7b6 g4g5 f6e7 b2c3 e7b4
c3b4



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