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Subject: Re: Marshall Attack - test

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 08:27:43 09/17/03

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On September 17, 2003 at 11:20:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 17, 2003 at 11:09:45, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On September 17, 2003 at 11:04:12, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On September 17, 2003 at 10:50:59, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 17, 2003 at 10:11:12, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
>>>>>d5 9. exd5 e4 10. Ng5 Bg4 11. Qc2 Ne5 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Qxe4 Bd6 14. d4 f5 15.
>>>>>Qc2
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]r2q1rk1/2p3pp/p2b4/1p1Pnp2/3P2b1/1BP5/PPQ2PPP/RNB1R1K1 b - - 0 15
>>>>>
>>>>>Chessprograms are strong in tactics (so they say...)
>>>>>How fast is your engine finding 15...Nf3+?
>>>>>
>>>>>Mihaly
>>>>
>>>>I should have known you wouldn't post an easy one ;) Zappa gets owned:
>>>>1... Ne5-g6 2. h2-h3 Bg4-h5 3. a2-a4 Ra8-b8 4. a4xb5 a6xb5 5. Ra1-a7 Rb8-b6 6.
>>>>Nb1-d2 Qd8-b8 7. Ra7-a1 Ng6-f4 8. Kg1xh2
>>>> = (-1.47)	Depth: 13/33	00:05:44.89	201714kN
>>>>
>>>>After forcing Nf3+ gxf3 Bxf3 Re5:
>>>>1... Bd6xe5 2. d4xe5 f5-f4 3. Qc2-d3 Qd8-g5 4. Kg1-f1 Bf3-g2 5. Kf1-e1 Qg5xe5 6.
>>>>Qd3-e2 Ra8-e8 7. d5-d6 Kg8-h8 8. Qe2xe5 Re8xe5 9. Ke1-d1 c7xd6
>>>> = (-0.79)	Depth: 12/26	00:00:51.70	30335kN
>>>>
>>>>So Zappa would probably play it at 14 ply, but with a very unconvincing score.
>>>>I'll restart the search and see if it can come up with something more promising
>>>>(its good to have two computers at work ;)
>>>>
>>>>anthony
>>>
>>>Are you sure that Bxf3 is the right move
>>>
>>>Fritz8 says Qh4
>>>0.41/12 for white fail high at depth 13
>>>
>>>I also do not understand Re5 when Qd3 seems to me better.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>gxf3 Bxf3 Re5 is what Zappa wants to play <shrug>
>>
>>anthony
>
>It seems that zappa is not materialistic enough.
>
>After gxf3 Qh4 it is a draw but movei needs some minutes to see a draw score
>and find it only at depth 12(the score drop from 2.49 at depth 11 to 0.00 at
>depth 12).
>
>Finding the draw score from the root position is a hard task and I need to
>improve my search to find it is a reasonable time.
>
>Uri

You can analyze this one:

[Event "Zweden"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1961.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Weibull"]
[Black "End"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C89"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "1961.??.??"]
[Source ""]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
d5 9. exd5 e4 10. Ng5 Bg4 11. Qc2 Ne5 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Qxe4 Bd6 14. d4 f5 15.
Qc2 Nf3+ 16. gxf3 Qh4 17. Re5 (17. fxg4 Qxh2+ 18. Kf1 fxg4 19. Be3 Rae8) 17...
Bh3 (17... Bxf3 18. Nd2 Qg4+ 19. Kf1 Qg2+ 20. Ke1) 18. Qe2 Bxe5 19. dxe5 f4 20.
d6+ Kh8 21. Be6 Bxe6 22. Nd2 Rf5 23. Qe4 Rg5+ 24. Kf1 Bh3+ 25. Ke2 Re8 0-1

Mihaly



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