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

Author: martin fierz

Date: 06:59:39 10/22/03

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On October 22, 2003 at 08:29:22, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On October 22, 2003 at 07:58:20, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 2003 at 20:33:53, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>
>>hi anthony,
>>
>>strange line at depth 6! if you play out the moves in the pv you have what looks
>>like a dead equal position to me, yet zappa evaluates it as +2.30. what's going
>>on here?
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>
>Probably another bug :) I still haven't _completely_ debugged the hash table
>from its rewrite a few weeks ago.
>
>anthony

probably you won't solve this in 1/4 of a second any more once you fix the bug
;-)

cheers
  martin



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