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Subject: Re: Interesting position from Guenther Simon's RWBC

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:21:04 02/20/04

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On February 20, 2004 at 16:59:44, Tim Foden wrote:

>Here is a position that occured between ZCHess 2.22 and Deep Sjeng 1.5 (ZChess
>was white).
>
>Most engines (well the one's we tested anyway!) don't like white here, but
>ZChess went on to win.
>
>[D]2r3k1/R4p2/1p2p1pp/1b1nQ3/3P3P/3q1PN1/5BP1/6K1 w - - 0 1
>
>The plan for white of Ne4 Kh2! Be1! Bd2 looks to win every time.  Any other
>engines see the win for white here?
>
>(for the game see Guenther's site http://home.t-online.de/home/g.simon.rgbg/)
>Cheers, Tim.

Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality on a P4-2.4, sees the Ne4-Kh2-Be1 plan
(although the last two moves are reversed) after 0:55. However, The King needs
almost 15 minutes to show a positive score for White:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-1.52	1674		36.Kh2 Qc2 37.Ne4 Qc1
0:00	1/3	-1.41	3538		36.Ne4 Qe2 37.Kh2 Bd3
0:00	1/4	-1.09	12833		36.Ne4 Be8 37.Kh2 Rc2
0:00	1/5	-1.08	39118		36.Ne4 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Be8 38.Nd6 Rd8
					39.Bg3
0:00	1/6	-0.95	113088		36.Ne4 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Be8 38.h5 g5
					39.Nd6 Rc1 40.Nf5
0:01	1/7	-0.96	285768		36.Ne4 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Be8 38.Nd6 Rd8
					39.Ne4 Qc1 40.Nf6+ Nxf6 41.Qxf6
0:04	1/8	-0.75	991363		36.Ne4 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Be8 38.Kg3 h5
					39.Re7 Kf8 40.Nf6 Bc6 41.Nxd5 Bxd5
					42.Qh8+ Kxe7 43.Qxc8
0:09	1/9	-0.88	2087928		36.Ne4 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Be8 38.Kg3 Qc1
					39.Nf6+ Nxf6 40.Qxf6 b5 41.d5 exd5
					42.Bd4 Qe1+ 43.Kh3
0:55	1/10	-0.34	12392315	36.Ne4 Rf8 37.Be1 Qd1 38.Kh2 Bf1
					39.Bd2 Qe2 40.Qg3 Rc8 41.Bxh6 Qc2
1:34	1/11	-0.25	21413687	36.Ne4 Rf8 37.Be1 Qd1 38.Kh2 Bf1
					39.Bd2 Qe2 40.Qg3 Rc8 41.Bxh6 Qc2
					42.Rd7
3:24	1/12	-0.03	47706262	36.Ne4 Rf8 37.Kh2 Qc2 38.Be3 Bf1
					39.Nd2 Nxe3 40.Qxe3 Bb5 41.Qxh6
					Qc3 42.Ne4 Qxd4 43.Kh3
14:48	2/13	0.44	206948747	36.Ne4 Qe2 37.Kh2 Bd3 38.Nf6+ Kh8
					39.Ng4+ f6 40.Nxf6 Qxe5+ 41.dxe5
					Nxf6 42.exf6 b5 43.Be1 Rf8 44.Rd7
					Bc2 45.Bc3

jm



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