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Subject: Re: Is the queen sac sound?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 19:34:40 12/29/03

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On December 29, 2003 at 20:44:06, Sune Fischer wrote:

>
>[D]8/6pk/4Q2p/3P1P1q/8/6P1/4rP2/2R3K1 w - - 0 56
>
>In the actual game Frenzee played d6!? and went on to win.
>
>In post mortem analysis it switches to Re1 with a bit more time, still
>sacrificing the queen.
>
>I've been playing a little bit with the eval scores for passed pawns
>and not surprisingly the position is very sensitive to these changes.
>
>Any other engines who wants to sacrifice the queen here, is it sound
>or a lucky punch?
>
>-S.

Here is what Fritz 8 thinks after about a 20 minute think on a 2GHz Athlon.

Analysis by Fritz 8:

1.Qg6+ Qxg6 2.fxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rd1 Re7 4.f4 Kf5
  +-  (1.59)   Depth: 7/13   00:00:00  31kN
1.Qg6+ Qxg6 2.fxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rd1 Kf6 4.Kf1 Re7 5.f4
  +-  (1.66)   Depth: 8/15   00:00:00  61kN
1.Qd7!
  +-  (1.69)   Depth: 8/18   00:00:00  73kN
1.Qd7 Qf3 2.Rf1 Re5 3.d6 Rxf5 4.Qe8 Rd5
  +-  (1.81)   Depth: 8/18   00:00:00  84kN
1.Qd7 Qf3 2.Rf1 Re5 3.d6 Rxf5 4.Qc8 Rf8 5.d7
  +-  (2.06)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:00  234kN
1.d6!
  +-  (2.09)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:00  301kN
1.d6!
  +-  (2.25)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:00  323kN
1.d6--
  +-  (1.97)   Depth: 10/34   00:00:00  460kN
1.d6 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Kg6 3.e7
  ²  (0.28)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:00  610kN
1.Qd7!
  ²  (0.31)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:01  651kN
1.Qd7!
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:01  656kN
1.Qd7!
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:01  666kN
1.Qd7!
  +-  (1.41)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:01  696kN
1.Qd7 Qf3 2.Rf1 Re5 3.f6 Qxf6 4.f4 Re7 5.Qc6 Qxc6 6.dxc6 Kg6
  +-  (1.53)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:01  809kN
1.Qg6+!
  +-  (1.56)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:02  1228kN
1.Qg6+ Qxg6 2.fxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rd1 Re7 4.f3 Rd7 5.Kf2 Kf5 6.Ke3
  +-  (1.66)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:02  1243kN
1.Qg6+ Qxg6 2.fxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rd1 Re7 4.f3 Rd7 5.Kf2 Kf5 6.Ke3 Ke5
  +-  (1.50)   Depth: 11/21   00:00:02  1439kN
1.Qd7!
  +-  (1.53)   Depth: 11/24   00:00:02  1648kN
1.Qd7--
  ±  (1.25)   Depth: 12/26   00:00:05  3664kN
1.Qd7 Qf3 2.Rf1
  ±  (1.25)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:06  4148kN
1.Qg6+!
  ±  (1.28)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:06  4167kN
1.Qg6+!
  +-  (1.44)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:06  4171kN
1.Qg6+ Qxg6 2.fxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rd1 Re7 4.f3 Rd7 5.d6 Kf5
  +-  (1.50)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:06  4247kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.53)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:10  7903kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.69)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:10  8008kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (2.00)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:11  8164kN
1.d6!
  +-  (2.03)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:11  8794kN
1.d6!
  +-  (2.19)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:12  8917kN
1.d6!
  +-  (2.50)   Depth: 12/35   00:00:12  9248kN
1.d6--
  +-  (2.22)   Depth: 13/34   00:00:13  9736kN
1.d6 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Qg5 3.Rc4 Qh5 4.d7 Qd1+ 5.Kh2 Qh5+ 6.Rh4 Qd1 7.f4 Qc2+ 8.Kh3
Qc7
  +-  (1.41)   Depth: 13/37   00:00:14  10884kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.44)   Depth: 13/37   00:00:14  11295kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.59)   Depth: 13/37   00:00:15  11494kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.91)   Depth: 13/37   00:00:15  11848kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (2.53)   Depth: 13/37   00:00:17  13400kN
1.Re1 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Kg8 3.d6 Qa5 4.Re2 Qa1+ 5.Kh2 Qf1 6.e7 Qxe2
  +-  (2.56)   Depth: 13/42   00:00:18  14622kN
1.Re1--
  +-  (2.28)   Depth: 14/35   00:00:23  18598kN
1.Re1 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Kg8 3.d6 Qa5 4.Re2 Qa1+ 5.Kh2 Qf1 6.d7
  +-  (2.00)   Depth: 14/36   00:00:24  19453kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (2.28)   Depth: 15/42   00:00:43  35440kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (2.56)   Depth: 15/42   00:00:46  38608kN
1.Re1 Rxe1+ 2.Qxe1 Qxf5 3.d6 Qc8 4.Qe4+ Kg8 5.Qe7 Qc1+ 6.Kg2 Qc6+ 7.Kh3 Qf3
8.Qe6+ Kh7 9.d7 Qh5+ 10.Kg2
  +-  (2.84)   Depth: 15/42   00:00:57  47853kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (3.13)   Depth: 16/44   00:01:32  76227kN
1.Re1 Rxe1+ 2.Qxe1 Qxf5 3.d6 Qc8 4.Qe4+ Kg8 5.Qe7 Qc1+ 6.Kg2 Qc6+ 7.Kh3 h5 8.Kh4
Qh1+ 9.Kg5 Qd5+ 10.Kg6 Qd3+
  +-  (3.38)   Depth: 16/44   00:02:00  100208kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (3.66)   Depth: 17/42   00:03:31  175345kN
1.d6!
  +-  (3.69)   Depth: 17/51   00:05:46  289532kN
1.d6!
  +-  (3.84)   Depth: 17/51   00:06:34  330351kN
1.d6--
  +-  (3.56)   Depth: 18/46   00:07:06  359908kN
1.d6 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Kg6 3.d7 Qd5 4.Re1 Qd2 5.Re5 Qc1+ 6.Kg2 Qc6+ 7.Kf1 Qh1+ 8.Ke2
Qa1 9.f4
  +-  (1.44)   Depth: 18/48   00:07:45  394354kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.47)   Depth: 18/48   00:08:05  411588kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.63)   Depth: 18/49   00:08:15  421345kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (1.94)   Depth: 18/49   00:08:34  438485kN
1.Re1!
  +-  (2.56)   Depth: 18/49   00:09:15  472186kN
1.Re1 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Kg8 3.d6 Qa5 4.Rb1 Qa8 5.d7 Kf8 6.Rc1 Qd8 7.Rc8 Ke7 8.Rxd8
  +-  (3.66)   Depth: 18/54   00:11:19  567968kN
1.Re1 Rxe6 2.fxe6 Kg8 3.d6 Qa5 4.Rb1 Qa8 5.d7 Kf8 6.Rc1 Qd8 7.Rc8 Ke7
  +-  (3.66)   Depth: 19/53   00:20:18  984956kN



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