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Subject: Re: Yusupov-Timman, Reykjavik 1988: Zappa needs 1/4 second :)

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 17:33:53 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

Zappa:

1. e6 Rxd6 2. e7 Bc6 3. Rf8 Kh7 4. Rd8 Rf6 5. e8=Q Bxe8 6. Rxe8
 = (2.30)       Depth: 6/14     00:00:00.24     77784kN
1. e6 Kh7 2. e7 Ra8 3. Bd7 Bg6 4. Rb1 Ra2 5. e8=Q Bxe8 6. Bxe8 Re2 7. Rd1
 = (3.65)       Depth: 13/29    00:00:30.11     18740317kN

anthony



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