Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 13:18:20 11/17/03
None of my top commercial programmes find 14..Ne8! followed by 15..f5 Junior 8 comes close, but chose Nh5 and no f5, although in analysis mode it does look at Ne8 and f5, strange...? Junior 8 also gets the second best evaluation compared to all other commercials, and basically feels White is winning at move 45 but not at 14., but it does have a good eval for White, about + 0.80 Crafty lives up to its name and considers White +- at move 14 and 45 ++! I tested Shredder 7.04, Chess Tiger 15, HIARCS 9, Junior 8, and yes even Fritz 8...at least Fritz 8 ver. 8.0.0.23 didn't look at 14...Bd6?!:) Junior scored the best among the commercials but it was Crafty 19.03 that was on the right track consistently. The test was 3 min. for each programme, on my very slow PIII 500, 128MB of RAM using 64MB of hash. My resources were down so the tests were not optimum but still good. Here's Craftys scores at moves 14.. and 45.. Hiarcs 9 - McCracken,T r1bq1rk1/1p1nbppp/1Pp2n2/p1Pp4/Q2Pp3/BNN1P2P/P4PP1/R3KB1R b KQ - 0 1 Analysis by Crafty 19.03: 14...Re8 15.Nxa5 ² (0.62) Depth: 1/7 00:00:00 14...Re8 15.Nxa5 ² (0.62) Depth: 2/7 00:00:00 14...Re8 15.Be2 Rf8 16.Nxa5 ± (0.81) Depth: 3/7 00:00:00 14...Re8 15.Be2 Rf8 16.Nxa5 ± (0.81) Depth: 4/8 00:00:00 14...Re8 15.Be2 Nf8 16.0-0 Ng6 17.Nxa5 ± (1.33) Depth: 5/13 00:00:00 14...Nxb6 15.cxb6 Bxa3 16.Qxa3 Qxb6 ± (1.29) Depth: 5/13 00:00:00 14...Nb8 15.Be2 Bf5 16.0-0 Nbd7 17.Nxa5 ± (1.20) Depth: 5/13 00:00:00 14...Rb8 15.Qxa5 Re8 16.Be2 Rf8 ± (1.06) Depth: 5/13 00:00:01 14...Rb8 15.Qxa5 Kh8 16.g4 Kg8 17.Be2 ± (1.17) Depth: 6/19 00:00:01 40kN 14...Rb8 15.Be2 Ra8 16.0-0 Nb8 17.Bb4 Bf5 18.Bxa5 +- (1.52) Depth: 7/19 00:00:01 87kN 14...Bd6 15.Be2 Nxb6 16.cxb6 Bxa3 17.Qxa3 Qxb6 +- (1.46) Depth: 7/19 00:00:01 134kN 14...Ne8 15.Be2 Bh4 16.0-0 Qg5 17.Bb4 Nef6 18.Bxa5 ± (1.24) Depth: 7/19 00:00:02 155kN 14...Re8 15.Be2 Nf8 16.0-0 Ng6 17.Bb2 Bf5 18.Nxa5 ± (1.22) Depth: 7/19 00:00:02 180kN 14...h6 15.Be2 Nxb6 16.cxb6 Bxa3 17.Qxa3 Qxb6 ± (1.21) Depth: 7/19 00:00:02 202kN 14...h6 15.Be2 Nh7 16.0-0 Bh4 17.Nxa5 Qf6 18.Qb4 ± (1.34) Depth: 8/19 00:00:03 275kN 14...Ne8 15.Be2 f5 16.0-0 f4 17.Nxa5 f3 18.gxf3 exf3 ± (1.19) Depth: 8/19 00:00:03 369kN 14...Ne8 15.Be2 f5 16.0-0 f4 17.Nxa5 f3 18.gxf3 exf3 ± (1.19) Depth: 9/23 00:00:05 540kN 14...Ne8 15.Be2 f5 16.g3 Ndf6 17.Nxa5 Qd7 18.0-0 f4 19.h4 fxe3 20.fxe3 ± (1.23) Depth: 10/24 00:00:08 935kN 14...Ne8 15.Nxa5 Nef6 16.Bc1 Rb8 17.Be2 Nxc5 18.dxc5 Bxc5 19.0-0 Bxb6 ± (1.18) Depth: 11/26 00:00:26 3862kN 14...Ne8 15.Be2 f5 16.g3 Nef6 17.0-0 f4 18.gxf4 Nb8 19.Kg2 Qd7 20.Rh1 ± (1.24) Depth: 12/28 00:01:05 10391kN 14...Ne8 15.Be2 f5 16.g3 Nef6 17.0-0 Qe8 18.Nxa5 Qf7 19.Qb4 Qg6 20.Bb2 Qg5 ± (1.26) Depth: 13/30 00:01:49 17863kN (McCracken, None 17.11.2003) Hiarcs 9 - McCracken,T r6k/1r1qnppp/NPp2n1b/2Pp4/3Pp3/1RB1P1PP/R1Q2P2/K4B2 b - - 0 1 Analysis by Crafty 19.03: 45...Ne8 ± (1.36) Depth: 1/6 00:00:00 45...Nf5 ± (1.09) Depth: 1/6 00:00:00 45...Nf5 46.Ra5 ± (1.39) Depth: 2/6 00:00:00 45...Nf5 46.g4 Ne7 ± (1.37) Depth: 3/6 00:00:00 45...Nf5 46.Nc7 Rxa2+ 47.Kxa2 Kg8 +- (1.77) Depth: 4/8 00:00:00 45...Qf5 46.g4 Qf3 47.Ra5 +- (1.58) Depth: 4/8 00:00:00 45...Qf5 46.g4 Qd7 47.Nc7 Rab8 +- (1.66) Depth: 5/11 00:00:00 45...Qf5 46.Nc7 Rxa2+ 47.Kxa2 Bxe3 48.Ba6 Rxc7 49.fxe3 +- (1.90) Depth: 6/14 00:00:00 39kN 45...Qf5 46.Nc7 Rc8 47.Ba6 Rcxc7 48.bxc7 Rxc7 +- (2.51) Depth: 7/15 00:00:01 157kN 45...Nf5 46.Nc7 Rab8 47.Ra7 Qxc7 48.bxc7 Rxa7+ 49.Kb2 Rxb3+ 50.Kxb3 Rxc7 +- (2.48) Depth: 7/15 00:00:01 188kN 45...Qc8 46.Nc7 Rxa2+ 47.Qxa2 Ne8 48.Nxe8 Qxe8 49.Ba6 Rb8 +- (2.33) Depth: 7/15 00:00:02 217kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.Rbb2 Rxa2+ 48.Rxa2 Qb7 49.Ra7 +- (1.86) Depth: 7/15 00:00:02 265kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.Rbb2 Kg8 48.Rxa8 Rxa8+ 49.Ra2 Rb8 +- (2.15) Depth: 8/22 00:00:04 419kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.Rba3 Rxa3 48.Rxa3 Nf6 49.Ra7 Rb7 +- (2.32) Depth: 9/22 00:00:08 1123kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.h4 Rxa2+ 48.Kxa2 Qb7 49.Ba6 Ra8 50.Ra3 Qb8 +- (2.41) Depth: 10/23 00:00:16 2605kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.h4 Kg8 48.Ba6 Nf5 49.Kb1 g6 50.Rab2 Bg7 +- (2.46) Depth: 11/24 00:00:32 5642kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.h4 Kg8 48.Rba3 Rxa3 49.Rxa3 Qb7 50.Ra7 Ra8 51.Rxa8 Qxa8+ +- (2.48) Depth: 12/25 00:01:00 11240kN 45...Ne8 46.Nb4 Rbb8 47.h4 Kg8 48.Rxa8 Rxa8+ 49.Ba6 Qc8 50.Ra3 Qd8 51.b7 Rb8 52.Kb1 +- (2.54) Depth: 13/26 00:01:54 22385kN (McCracken, None 17.11.2003) Congratulations Dr. Robert Hyatt! Also, Amir and Shay for being close...maybe Deep Junior 8 would have done better?...I can't test it. Terry
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