Author: Slater Wold
Date: 22:59:23 02/08/04
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On February 08, 2004 at 22:50:05, Mike Byrne wrote:
>If case you have not figured this out by now, my intent it to continue with
>posting all 11 of the Nolot positions, dig up the game score from the actual
>game -- post the orginal comments made by Pierre Nolot (original author of the
>article where these positions were discussed) and Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Deep Blue
>Inventor, who was preparing Deep Thought/Deep Blue for the match with Kasparov
>that was to come in 1995 and took a keen interest in these positions. He
>believed that if Deep Blue were able to solve these type of positions quickly,
>Deep Blue would have a very good shot at defeating Kasparov. It is interesting
>to see what today's software on fast hardware think of these positions.
>
>So far these posts have gone very well and I appeciate everyone who has
>particpated in this excercise.
>
>Nolot #3 is a semi-controversial position as there are many doubters that the
>claimed winning move is truly a forced win. When one also considers the nearly
>200 point in the ratings of the particpants, it easier to understand why the
>favored player, GM Sergey Smagin, now 47, played the daring and very complicated
>Ng5!?. I suspect he would not have played that move if he had been playing
>Kasparov. GM Dragutin Sahovic is now 63 years young and is still active in the
>Serbia & Montenegro Chess Federation.
>
>
>
>[Event "Biel (open) 50/122"]
>[White "Smagin,S"]
>[Black "Sahovic,D"]
>[Date "1990"]
>[Annotator "Smagin,S"]
>[WhiteElo "2550"]
>[BlackElo "2370"]
>[ECO "B 00"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>
>1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 ( 3. Nc3 {Ue 50/(122)} ) 3... Bf5 4. c3 e6 5. Nd2
>{N} ( 5. Ne2 ) 5... f6 6. f4 fe5 7. fe5 Nh6 8. Ndf3 Nf7 9. Ne2 Be7 10. Ng3
>Bg4 ( 10... Bg6 11. h4 $16 ) ( 10... g6 $5 ) 11. Bd3 {
>
>[d]r2qk2r/ppp1bnpp/2n1p3/3pP3/3P2b1/2PB1NN1/PP4PP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 11
After over 1.5 hours on my P4 3.0Ghz, this is all DJ8 had to say:
r2qk2r/ppp1bnpp/2n1p3/3pP3/3P2b1/2PB1NN1/PP4PP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 1
Analysis by Deep Junior 8:
1...h6 2.Rf1
± (0.71) Depth: 3 00:00:00
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 g6 3.Rf1
= (0.21) Depth: 6 00:00:00 7kN
1...0-0 2.0-0 Ng5 3.h4 Nxf3+ 4.gxf3 Bh3
= (0.24) Depth: 9 00:00:00 39kN
1...0-0 2.0-0 Ng5 3.Be3
² (0.31) Depth: 12 00:00:00 1271kN
1...0-0 2.0-0
² (0.61) Depth: 15 00:00:09 16740kN
1...0-0 2.Qc2 Bxf3 3.Bxh7+ Kh8 4.gxf3 Ng5 5.Bxg5 Bxg5 6.Kf2 Bh4 7.b4 Qg5 8.b5
Qf4 9.Qd3 Ne7 10.Rag1
² (0.56) Depth: 18 00:01:59 205484kN
1...Ng5 2.Bxg5 Bxg5 3.0-0 0-0 4.Bc2 Bxf3 5.Rxf3 h6 6.Qd3 Qe7
² (0.55) Depth: 18 00:11:12 967885kN
1...Ng5 2.Bxg5 Bxg5 3.0-0 0-0 4.a4 g6 5.Qe1 Qe7 6.h3 Bxf3 7.gxf3 Rad8
² (0.63) Depth: 20 00:20:32 2067675kN
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