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Subject: Re: tough position

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 12:29:55 12/12/03

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On December 12, 2003 at 13:49:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 12, 2003 at 13:40:07, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>Here's a position from a recent game, this one gives Amateur fits.
>>How long to see black is busted?
>>
>>[d]4rr2/1b3p1k/pp5p/2b1pQ2/q7/P2R2B1/1PP3PP/2KR4 b - -
>
>
>For Crafty, the bottom begins to fall out at 6 seconds or so,

What do you mean by 6 seconds??? 6 seconds on a 100 MHz machine is fantastic,
but it is horrible on the fastest quad....

I can't agree more with Christophe about this. PLEASE ADD HARDWARE INFO!



>where
>it begins to see it is not ahead.  By 60 seconds it has failed low
>to white a pawn up and climbing:
>
>               12->   4.84  -0.69   1. ... Kg8 2. Bxe5 Bf2 3. Rd4 Rxe5
>                                    4. Qxe5 Re8 5. Rd8 Bc6 6. Rxe8+ Bxe8
>                                    7. Rd6 Qb5 8. Qf4 Qg5 <HT>
>               13     6.66     --   1. ... Kg8
>               13    15.28   0.31   1. ... Kg8 2. Bxe5 Bf2 3. Bf6 Re2 4.
>                                    Rd8 Bc5 5. R8d4 Rxc2+ 6. Qxc2 Qxc2+
>                                    7. Kxc2 Bxd4 8. Bxd4 Be4+ 9. Kb3 Rd8
>               13->  17.91   0.31   1. ... Kg8 2. Bxe5 Bf2 3. Bf6 Re2 4.
>                                    Rd8 Bc5 5. R8d4 Rxc2+ 6. Qxc2 Qxc2+
>                                    7. Kxc2 Bxd4 8. Bxd4 Be4+ 9. Kb3 Rd8
>               14    35.70   0.00   1. ... Kg8 2. Bxe5 Bf2 3. Bf6 Re2 4.
>                                    Rd8 Bh4 5. Rxf8+ Kxf8 6. Rd8+ Re8 7.
>                                    Rxe8+ Qxe8 8. Bxh4 Qe3+ 9. Kb1 Qg1+
>                                    10. Ka2 Qxg2 11. Qf4 Qxc2 12. Qxh6+
>               14->  40.01   0.00   1. ... Kg8 2. Bxe5 Bf2 3. Bf6 Re2 4.
>                                    Rd8 Bh4 5. Rxf8+ Kxf8 6. Rd8+ Re8 7.
>                                    Rxe8+ Qxe8 8. Bxh4 Qe3+ 9. Kb1 Qg1+
>                                    10. Ka2 Qxg2 11. Qf4 Qxc2 12. Qxh6+
>               15    51.44     --   1. ... Kg8
>               15     1:30   0.98   1. ... Kg8 2. Bxe5 Bf2 3. Rd4 Rxe5
>                                    4. Qxe5 Re8 5. Rg4+ Qxg4 6. Qxe8+ Kg7
>                                    7. Qe5+ f6 8. Qc7+ Kg6 9. Rd7 Qg5+
>                                    10. Kb1 Bxg2 11. Rg7+ Kf5 12. Rxg5+
>                                    hxg5



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