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Subject: Re: Nice Sacrifice. Why Shredder 8, D.Fritz 8 and Ruffian 2 can't find it?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:37:42 02/19/04

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On February 19, 2004 at 16:05:07, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>
>30.Nxf7!  A nice sacrifice of Amyan 1.591 against Wildcat 3.0 that some of the
>best engines can't find it in the reasonable time of 4 minutes on a 1.5GHz PIV.
>Shredder 8, Deep Fritz 8-7, Ruffian 2.0 can't find it. It's so easy that i guess
>why? For Junior's and Chess Tiger's is very easy.
>When i'm thinking that Shredder 8 can't see the famous sacrifice Bxh7! and plays
>O-O, i hope programmers of top engines would give more attention to sacrifices
>and be less materialistic.
>
>[D]r2r4/pb3pkp/3q2p1/2pnN3/2B5/1P6/P2QRPPP/4R1K1 w - - 0 30

Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality on a P4-2.4, needs two seconds to stick with
Nxf7:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/5	1.12	22587		30.Nd3 Rac8 31.Bxd5 Qxd5 32.Qc3+
					Qd4
0:00	1/5	1.14	40521		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh4+ Kg7 34.Bb5
0:00	1/6	1.08	73939		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Bb5
					Nf6 33.Bxd7 Qxd7
0:00	1/6	1.32	130716		30.Nd3 Nb6 31.Qc3+ Qd4 32.Qxd4+
					cxd4 33.Bxf7 Bxg2 34.Bxg6 hxg6
					35.Kxg2
0:02	1/7	1.01	348213		30.Nd3 Rac8 31.a3 h6 32.Bxd5 Qxd5
					33.Qc3+ Qd4
0:02	1/7	1.49	421563		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh4+ Kg7 34.Re6 Qc7 35.Bb5
0:03	1/8	1.58	640777		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh6 Kf7 34.Bb5 Re7 35.Qh7+
					Kf6
0:06	1/9	1.58	1330332		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh6 Kf7 34.Bb5 Re7 35.Qh7+
					Kf6
0:13	1/10	1.82	2980599		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh4+ Kf7 34.Re3 Kg7 35.Re6
					Qf8 36.Rxg6+ Kxg6 37.Qg4+ Kh7 38.Qxd7+
					Qg7
0:28	1/11	1.82	6787634		30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh4+ Kf7 34.Re3 Kg7 35.Re6
					Qf8 36.Rxg6+ Kxg6 37.Qg4+ Kh7 38.Qxd7+
					Qg7
1:06	1/12	2.19	16290358	30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh4+ Kf7 34.Re3 Kg7 35.Re6
					Qf8 36.Rxg6+ Kxg6 37.Qg4+ Kh6 38.Qxd7
2:50	1/13	2.54	42892793	30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Qh6 Rd7 32.Qxh7+
					Kf6 33.Qh6 Rg8 34.Re4 Qf8 35.Qh3
					Qf7 36.Bxd5 Rxd5 37.Qc3+ Kg5 38.Qe3+
					Kf6

jm



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