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Subject: Re: Where did noonian go wrong vs big lion

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:19:24 02/12/04

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On February 12, 2004 at 06:55:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 12, 2004 at 06:51:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2004 at 06:20:17, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>>
>>>On February 11, 2004 at 23:37:13, Charles Roberson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  This is from Leo's tournament. Thanks for your efforts Leo.
>>>>
>>>>  The match seems even for quite a while then slowly black gets ahead.
>>>>  Seems I need more endgame knowledge in Noonian, but what say you or your
>>>>  programs.
>>>>
>>>>[Event "WBEC7 5th Division"]
>>>>[Site "Dual p3 1266"]
>>>>[Date "?"]
>>>>[Round "1.2"]
>>>>[White "NoonianChess 3.6e"]
>>>>[Black "BigLion 2.23i"]
>>>>[Result "0-1"]
>>>>[TimeControl "40/2400"]
>>>>
>>>>1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. O-O Bg4 5. d3 e6 6. Nh4 Bd6 7. h3 Bh5 8.
>>>>Nd2 O-O 9. Nb3 a5 10. a4 Nbd7 11. Bd2 Be5 12. Ra2 Bc7 13. Qe1 b6 14. f4 Bd6
>>>>15. g4 Bg6 16. e3 Re8 17. Nxg6 hxg6 18. g5 Nh5 19. Qh4 e5 20. Bf3 exf4 21.
>>>>exf4 Nc5 22. Nd4 Qd7 23. Bg4 Qc7 24. Bxh5 gxh5 25. Qxh5 Ne6 26. Nxe6 Rxe6
>>>>27. f5 g6 28. Qg4 gxf5 29. Rxf5 Bc5+ 30. Kh1 Rae8 31. Rf1 Re2 32. Bf4 Qc8
>>>>33. Qxc8 Rxc8 34. b3 Kg7 35. Rf3 Kg6 36. Ra1 Rxc2 37. Raf1 Bd4 38. h4 Rb2
>>>>39. Bd6 Rh8 40. Bg3 Rxb3 41. Rxf7 Rxd3 42. R7f3 Rd2 43. Re1 Kh5 44. Re6 Kg4
>>>>45. Rb3 Rf8 46. Re1 Ra2 47. Bd6 Rff2 48. Rg1+ Kh5 49. g6 Kh6 50. Rbb1 Rf3
>>>>51. Rg2 Rh3+ 52. Bh2 Rxa4 53. Rg4 Ra2 54. Rxd4 Raxh2+ 55. Kg1 Rh1+ 56. Kg2
>>>>R3h2+ 57. Kg3 Rxb1 58. Kxh2 Rb4 59. Rd2 Rxh4+ 60. Kg3 Rc4 61. Rb2 b5 62.
>>>>Kf3 Kxg6 63. Kf2 a4 64. Kf3 b4 65. Ke3 Kf6 66. Kd2 a3 67. Ra2 Rg4 68. Kd3
>>>>Rg3+ 69. Kd4 b3 70. Rxa3 b2 71. Rxg3 b1=Q 72. Rf3+ Ke6 73. Ke3 Qe1+ 74. Kf4
>>>>Qe5+ 75. Kg4 d4 76. Rf2 Qe4+ 77. Rf4 Qg2+ 78. Kh5 d3 79. Rg4 Qh1+ 80. Kg5
>>>>d2 81. Rd4 Qg1+ 82. Rg4 Qe3+ 83. Kh4 Qh6+ 84. Kg3 d1=Q 85. Re4+ Kd5 86.
>>>>Re5+ Kxe5 87. Kg2 Qg5+ 88. Kf2 Qgg1#
>>>>{Black Mates} 0-1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Charles,
>>>
>>>34 h4 loses fast. I have not looked at positions after this move.
>>>Only good move is Be3.
>>>
>>>[D]2r5/5p2/1pp3k1/p2p2P1/P2b1B2/1P1P1R1P/2r5/5R1K w - - bm Be3
>>>
>>>/Matthias.
>>
>>I am not sure if there is only one solution
>>Movei may be wrong but it prefers Bh2 and not Be3.
>>
>>Uri
>
>It is possible that I did not give it to searchdeep enough because the score
>drops after Be3 that suggests that Be3 is a good move.
>
>Uri

It seems that both latest version and previous version change their mind to Be3
but latest version does it one ply later maybe because of reducing some
extensions and I will check it later.

The problem of finding Be3 is probably a search problem and I guess noonian
could find it by searching deeper.

Uri



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