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Subject: Re: Leonid's very easy position is actually VERY DIFFICULT!

Author: Kelly Fergason

Date: 13:47:52 10/21/03

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On October 21, 2003 at 14:09:10, Jouni Uski wrote:

>[D] 2r1N2B/PP1RqP1Q/K2nnq1R/Npk3q1/3q1qQr/2qbbQ2/1P1Q3q/1q1B1Q2 w - -
>
>It's interesting to test this under Fritz8 GUI with 2,4 GHz PC:
>
>Fritz: no solution in 5 minutes (depth still 1 ply!)
>Yace: no solution in 5 minutes
>Ruffian: 26 seconds to bxc8R and 10x announcement
>Shredder: crash after 2 minutes (in shredder704.dll)!
>
>Finally the truth = analysis by ChestUCI Ver 2.6:
>
>1.Qxc3+ Qxc3 2.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 3.Qc6+ Kb4 4.Qxc3+ Qxc3 5.Bxc3+ Kc5 6.Nb3+ Kc6
>7.Rxe6+ Qed6 8.Rexd6+ Nxd6 9.a8Q+ Nb7 10.Qxb7#
>  +-  (#10)   Depth: 10   00:23:02
>1.bxc8R+ Nxc8 2.Qc6+ Kb4 3.Qcxc3+ Qxc3 4.Qxc3+ Qxc3 5.Bxc3+ Kc5 6.Nb3+ Kc6
>7.Rxe6+ Qed6 8.Rexd6+ Nxd6 9.a8Q+ Nb7 10.Qxb7#
>  +-  (#10)   Depth: 10   00:23:02
>1.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 2.Qc6+ Kb4 3.Qcxc3+ Qxc3 4.Qxc3+ Qxc3 5.Bxc3+ Kc5 6.Nb3+ Kc6
>7.Rxe6+ Qed6 8.Rexd6+ Nxd6 9.a8Q+ Nb7 10.Qxb7#
>  +-  (#10)   Depth: 10   00:23:02
>
>Jouni


Junior 8 finds this very quickly...


New game
2r1N2B/PP1RqP1Q/K2nnq1R/Npk3q1/3q1qQr/2qbbQ2/1P1Q3q/1q1B1Q2 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Junior 8:

1.Qxh4 Qhxd2 2.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 3.Bxf6
  -+  (-14.13)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  7kN
1.Rxh4 Qhxd2 2.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 3.Bxf6
  -+  (-13.83)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  11kN
1.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 2.Qc6+ Kb4 3.bxc3+ Qxc3 4.Bxf6
  ²  (0.33)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  44kN
1.bxc8Q+!
  ²  (0.63)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  184kN
1.bxc8Q+!
  ±  (0.93)   Depth: 9   00:00:19  23494kN
1.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 2.Qc6+ Kb4 3.Qcxc3+ Qxc3 4.Qxc3+ Qxc3 5.Bxc3+ Kc5 6.Nb3+ Kc6
7.Rxe6+ Qed6 8.Rexd6+ Nxd6 9.a8Q+ Nb7 10.Qxb7#
  +-  (#10)   Depth: 9   00:00:31  38519kN
1.bxc8Q+ Nxc8 2.Qc6+ Kb4 3.Qcxc3+ Qxc3 4.Qxc3+ Qxc3 5.Bxc3+ Kc5 6.Nb3+ Kc6
7.Rxe6+ Qed6 8.Rexd6+ Nxd6 9.a8Q+ Nb7 10.Qxb7#
  +-  (#10)   Depth: 9   00:00:36  43436kN

(Fergason, 1.5Ghz P4, 512Mb, 192Mb Hash, 21.10.2003)


Kelly




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