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Subject: Re: Topalov-Svidler Corus 2004 Rd 7 (Yace PB)

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 13:54:35 01/18/04

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On January 18, 2004 at 16:29:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On January 18, 2004 at 15:59:46, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On January 18, 2004 at 15:40:47, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On January 18, 2004 at 14:55:30, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>>
>>>>[D]8/1p2rkp1/p3p3/4P2p/8/1P1Q4/P1P3q1/1K3R2 b - -
>>>>
>>>>39...Ke8 appears to be Blacks best chance, since 39...Kg8 loses by force. It
>>>>takes Ruffian over 13 minutes to switch to Ke8 on a 800Mhz athlon with 32 Mb
>>>>hash. How do the other engines do?
>>>
>>>Yace Paderborn  UCI: (P4 1.8/32 MB hash under Arena 1.02)
>>The -2.63 score of the last PV starting with Ke8 got me curious. How come so
>>negative? But then I noticed that the last move Rd5 is nonsense. What happened
>>to Yace here?
>
>Second try
>
>Yace Paderborn  UCI: (P4 1.8/32 MB hash under Arena 1.02)
> 1   00:00 -2.92   Qxf1+ Qxf1+ Ke8
> 1   00:00  0.79   Ke8
> 2   00:00  0.71   Ke8 Rd1
> 3   00:00  0.93   Ke8 Rd1 g5
> 4   00:00  0.71   Ke8 Rd1 g6 Qd6
> 5   00:00  0.65   Ke8 Rd1 g6 Qd8+ Kf7 Rd7
> 6   00:00  0.66   Ke8 Rd1 g6 Qd8+ Kf7 Rd7 Qf1+ Kb2
> 7   00:00  0.60   Ke8 Qc4 Qc6 Qd3 h4 Qg6+ Kd7 Rf7 Qh1+ Kb2
> 8-  00:00  0.20   Ke8 Qc4 Qc6 Qh4 g6 Qf6 Rf7 Qxf7+ Kd8
> 8   00:00  0.00   Ke8 Qc4 Kd7 Rd1+ Ke8 Rf1
> 8+  00:00  0.01   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Rf7 Qxe5+ Kb1
> 8   00:01  0.47   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Rh8+ Kg6 Qd6 h4
> 9   00:01  0.38   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Rh8+ Kg6 Qd6 h4 c3
>10   00:03  0.22   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Qd3+ g6 Qd6 a5 Rf6 Re8
>11   00:07  0.21   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Qd3+ g6 Qd6 Kh6 Rf6 Re8 Rxe6
>12   00:17  0.19   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Rh8+ Kg6 Qd3+ Qf5 Qd6 Rf7
>13   00:32  0.00   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 c3 Kh6 Rh8+ Kg6 Rf8 h4 Qd3+ Kh5
>Rh8+ Kg4 Qd1+ Kh3 Qh1+ Kg4
>14-  00:46 -0.40   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Qd3+ g6 Qd6 Kg7 Qb8 Qh6 Qd8 Re8
>Rxe8 h4
>14-  00:57 -1.40   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Qd3+ g6 Qd6 Kg7 Qb8 Qh6 Qd8 Re8
>Rxe8 h4
>14   01:08 -2.64   Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Rf8 Qg1+ Kb2 Qg5 Qd3+ g6 Qd6 Kg7 Qb8 Qf5 Rxf5
>exf5 Qd6 Rf7 e6
>14+  01:54 -2.63   Ke8 Qc4 Kd7 Rd1+ Ke8 Rd5
>14   10:10 -0.10   Ke8 Qc4 Kd7 Rf8 Qh1+ Kb2 Qc6 Qh4 g6 Rg8 Qd5 Qf4 h4 Rxg6 h3
>Rh6 Qg2

Good. Now the score more or less agrees with Ruffian, so we are on the same page
now. It seems Yace is able to understand the position about as quickly as
Ruffian. A tough one for comps it seems (humans too).



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