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Subject: Re: Interesting Mistake by Hiarcs 8 at 40/120 (Materialism Test Position)

Author: John Merlino

Date: 23:25:58 01/16/04

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On January 16, 2004 at 19:49:05, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>In this position which happened in a game between Hiarcs 8 running at 1800 MHZ
>and the novag Handheld chess computer Sapphire(at 20 Mhz) ;Hiarcs 8 played
>27...Qxh2?
>Not noticing that after 28.Bxf7+! it is a Draw by perpetual check.Alas the
>Sapphire could not find the move in the actual game.
>[D]r5k1/5p1p/p5p1/1p3bR1/5P1q/1B6/PPP4P/1K1Q4 b
>Questions:
>1.Does your program play or consider 27..Qxh2?
>2.How long does it for your program to see the draw score after 27..Qxh2?

Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality on a P4-2.4, takes too long on this one:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:01	1/8	-1.38	245967		1...Re8 2.Rg1 Qxf4 3.Qd5 Rf8 4.Re1
					Qxh2 5.Qd4 Qg3 6.Re7
0:01	1/8	-1.48	378688		1...Qxf4 2.Rg2 Re8 3.Bd5 Be4 4.Bxe4
					Qxe4 5.Rd2 Qf4
0:03	1/8	-1.60	623761		1...Qxh2 2.Rg1 Rc8 3.Rf1 b4 4.Qc1
					Qe2 5.Rd1 h5
0:05	1/9	-1.61	1228444		1...Qxh2 2.Rg1 Rc8 3.Rf1 h6 4.a4
					bxa4 5.Bxa4 Be4 6.Bb3
0:06	1/9	-1.70	1501554		1...Re8 2.Rg1 Qxf4 3.Qd5 Rf8 4.Qg2
					Be4 5.Qg3 Qxg3 6.hxg3 Rd8
0:11	1/10	-1.67	2587071		1...Re8 2.Rg1 Qxh2 3.Qd4 Re4 4.Qa7
					Re7 5.Qd4 Rd7 6.Qe3 Be4 7.Re1
0:16	1/10	-1.84	3692723		1...Qxh2 2.Rg1 Rc8 3.Rf1 a5 4.a4
					b4 5.Kc1 h5 6.Qd2 Qxd2+ 7.Kxd2
0:31	1/11	-1.96	7271671		1...Qxh2 2.Rg1 Rc8 3.Re1 a5 4.Re2
					Qxf4 5.Qh1 Qd6 6.Bd5 h6
1:04	1/12	-1.99	15064767	1...Qxh2 2.Rg1 Rc8 3.Re1 a5 4.Re2
					Qxf4 5.Qe1 a4 6.Bd5 h5 7.a3 Kg7
2:33	2/13	-2.06	36472375	1...Qxh2 2.Rg1 Rc8 3.Rf1 a5 4.a4
					bxa4 5.Bxa4 Bh3 6.Re1 Qxf4 7.Bb3
					a4 8.Bd5 Bf5
7:10	3/14	0.00	103276929	1...Qxh2 2.Rxf5 gxf5 3.Bxf7+ Kxf7
					4.Qd5+ Kg7 5.Qd7+ Kg6 6.Qe6+ Kh5
					7.Qxf5+ Kh4 8.Qxh7+ Kg3 9.Qd3+
					Kg2 10.Qd5+ Kh3 11.Qd7+ Kg2 12.Qd5+
9:22	3/14	-2.09	134140716	1...Re8 2.Rg1 Qxh2 3.Rf1 Qe2 4.Qc1
					Kg7 5.Rd1 h5 6.Rd2 Qe3 7.Rd6 Re4
					8.Bd5 Qxf4 9.Rxa6

So, it might be safe on a very strong CPU at tournament time controls, but will
probably fall for this in blitz.

jm



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