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Subject: Re: Yusupov-Timman, Reykjavik 1988

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:39:37 10/21/03

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On October 21, 2003 at 15:26:59, Darren Rushton wrote:

>[D] 7k/6p1/r2B3p/4P3/4b3/3n3B/6PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
>
>White could have won by force. 1.e6! Rd6 2.e7 Bc6 3.Rf8+ Kh7 4.Bf5+! g6 5.Rd8
>Rf6 6.Bd7 Bd7 7.Rd7.
>
>Yusupov overlooked the intermediate check 4.Bf5+ and chose 1.g3? Kh7 2.Bg2 Bg2
>3.Kg2 Kg6 4.Rf8, but Timman found a defence: 4...Nb2!, after which it turned out
>to be impossible to convert [his] extra pawn into victory.
>
>Does your program find the correct continuation?
>
>Regards,
>
>Daz

It takes Chessmaster 9000, on a humble P3-750, 0:09 to find the answer. HOWEVER,
it chooses a slightly different move order: 1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.e6 Rxd6 3.e7 Bc6 4.Bf5+
g6 5.Rd8 Rf6....

THEN, it switches to 1.e6 with a convincing score after 1:02, but with an
entirely different line:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	1.92	1451		1.Bd7 Ra2 2.Rf8+ Kh7
0:00	1/3	1.97	1968		1.g3 Ra2 2.Rf8+ Kh7 3.e6
0:00	1/3	2.15	2875		1.Be6 Ra8 2.Bd7 Ra2
0:00	1/4	2.00	6218		1.Be6 Ra5 2.Rf8+ Kh7 3.Bg8+ Kg6
					4.Bf7+ Kg5
0:00	1/5	1.80	21185		1.Be6 Ra5 2.Bc7 Ra8 3.Bf7 Rc8
0:00	1/5	1.85	25235		1.g3 Rc6 2.Bd7 Rc2 3.Rf8+ Kh7 4.e6
0:00	1/6	1.74	73740		1.g3 Rc6 2.Rf8+ Kh7 3.Rd8 Rc1+
					4.Bf1 Bf5 5.Ba3 Rc3
0:01	1/6	1.79	145481		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.Kf1 g5 3.g3 Ra1+ 4.Ke2
					Ra2+ 5.Ke3 Rxh2 6.Kxe4 Rxh3 7.Kxd3
					Rxg3+ 8.Kd4
0:02	1/6	1.92	185612		1.Be6 Rb6 2.Bd7 Rb2 3.Bh3 Rc2 4.e6
0:03	1/7	1.37	262680		1.Be6 Ra5 2.h3 Kh7 3.Rf5 Nc5 4.Rf4
					Nxe6 5.Rxe4
0:04	1/7	1.78	412959		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.e6 Rxd6 3.e7 Bc6 4.Rd8
					Rf6 5.Rxd3 Kg6 6.Re3
0:09	2/8	1.74	866884		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.e6 Rxd6 3.e7 Bc6 4.Bf5+
					g6 5.Rd8 Rf6 6.Bxd3 Re6
0:18	3/9	2.16	1847357		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.e6 Rxd6 3.e7 Bc6 4.Bf5+
					g6 5.Rd8 Rf6 6.Bd7 Rf2 7.Bxc6
0:40	4/10	2.19	4274357		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.e6 Ra1+ 3.Rf1 Rxf1+
					4.Kxf1 Kg6 5.e7 Bc6 6.Ke2 Nb2 7.Be6
					Kf6 8.Bb3 Bb5+ 9.Ke3
1:02	4/10	3.27	6672334		1.e6 Nf2 2.Rxf2 Rxd6 3.Rf8+ Kh7
					4.e7 Bc6 5.Rd8 Rf6 6.e8=Q Bxe8
					7.Rxe8
1:13	5/11	3.31	8030575		1.e6 Nf2 2.Kxf2 Rxd6 3.e7 Bg6 4.Rc1
					Rd5 5.Rc8+ Kh7 6.e8=Q Bxe8 7.Rxe8
					Kg6 8.Ke3 Rd1
2:11	6/12	3.27	15049957	1.e6 Kh7 2.e7 Bg6 3.Bf5 Ra8 4.Bxd3
					Bxd3 5.Rf8 Ra1+ 6.Kf2 Bg6 7.e8=Q
					Bxe8 8.Rxe8 Rd1 9.Bb4 Kg6

jm



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