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Subject: Fritz 8 agrees with Reti the whole way

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 03:15:51 02/23/04

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On February 22, 2004 at 22:28:29, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 22, 2004 at 04:02:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>[D]rnb1k2r/pp1pp1bp/6p1/2pn2B1/8/2NB1N2/PqPQ2PP/1R2K2R w Kkq - 0 11
>>Reti,R - Euwe,M (Amsterdam 1920)
>>Position before 11.Nxd5!! (or ?!)
>>
>>
>>[Event "Amsterdam m"]
>>[Site "Amsterdam"]
>>[Date "1920.??.??"]
>>[Round "2"]
>>[White "Reti, Richard"]
>>[Black "Euwe, Max"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ECO "A83"]
>>[PlyCount "33"]
>>[EventDate "1920.??.??"]
>>
>>1. d4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 g6 5. f3 exf3 6. Nxf3 Bg7 7. Bd3 c5 8. d5
>>Qb6 9. Qd2 Qxb2 10. Rb1 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Qxb1+ 12. Kf2 Qxh1 13. Bxe7 d6 14. Bxd6
>>Nc6 15. Bb5 Bd7 16. Bxc6 bxc6 17. Qe2+ 1-0
>
>Since Hurd showed that Shredder 8 had a vague idea of the value of Nxd5, I
>entered the first 4 plies and let Shredder 7.04 sit on it to see if it broke
>away from the perpetual it was displaying in the mainline. Until ply 14 nothing,
>but then it did a huge leap forward.
>
>Analysis by Shredder 7.04:
>
>13.Nc7+ Kd8 14.Bxe7+ Kxc7 15.Qf4+ Kb6 16.Qd6+ Nc6 17.Qxc5+ Kc7 18.Bd6+ Kd8
>19.Qg5+ Ke8 20.Bxg6+ hxg6 21.Qxg6+ Kd8 22.Qxg7 Qa1 23.Qxa1 Rh6
>+-  (3.02)    Depth: 15/49   00:20:35  280318kN
>(Silver, Private 23.02.2004)

Even more interesting was to see that Fritz 8 agrees with Reti's choice of
13.Bxe7 contrary to the other engines, albeit after at least 1 hour on my Athlon
1 GHz, and with the first 4 plies of the line fed to it:

Reti,R - Euwe,M
rnb1k2r/pp1pp1bp/6p1/2pN2B1/8/3B1N2/P1PQ1KPP/7q w kq - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 8:

13.Nc7+ Kd8 14.Bxe7+ Kxe7 15.Qg5+ Kd6 16.Nb5+ Kc6 17.Qg3 Qxh2 18.Qxh2 c4 19.a4
Kb6 20.Nc7 cxd3 21.Nxa8+
  ³  (-0.69)   Depth: 11/38   00:00:24  10251kN
13.Nc7+!
  ³  (-0.41)   Depth: 12/39   00:02:16  56352kN
13.Nc7+!
  =  (-0.12)   Depth: 12/39   00:02:19  57575kN
13.Nc7+ Kd8 14.Bxe7+ Kxc7 15.Qf4+ Kb6 16.Qd6+ Nc6 17.Qxc5+ Kc7
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 12/43   00:02:44  69202kN
13.Nc7+ Kd8 14.Bxe7+ Kxc7 15.Qf4+ Kb6 16.Qd6+ Nc6 17.Qxc5+ Kc7 18.Qd6+ Kb6
19.Qc5+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 13/48   00:04:32  117650kN
13.Nc7+ Kd8 14.Bxe7+ Kxc7 15.Qf4+ Kb6 16.Qd6+ Nc6 17.Qxc5+ Kc7 18.Qd6+ Kb6
19.Qc5+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 14/46   00:10:00  259328kN
13.Bxe7
  =  (0.03)   Depth: 14/46   01:18:01  1000228kN
13.Bxe7
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 14/46   01:28:26  1270043kN
13.Bxe7
  ²  (0.50)   Depth: 14/46   01:42:30  1636963kN
13.Bxe7 Qa1 14.Bd6 Rf8 15.Qe2+ Kf7 16.Bc4 Kg8 17.Nc7+ Kh8 18.Bxf8 Bd4+ 19.Kg3 d5
  ±  (1.09)   Depth: 14/46   02:15:41  2530715kN
13.Bxe7!
  ±  (1.38)   Depth: 15/52   03:06:58  3912343kN
13.Bxe7!
  +-  (1.66)   Depth: 16/51   05:32:30  7867274kN
13.Bxe7!
  +-  (1.94)   Depth: 16/51   07:18:25  10701233kN

(Silver, Private 23.02.2004)




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