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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 agrees with Reti the whole way

Author: Frank E. Oldham

Date: 15:24:05 02/24/04

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On February 23, 2004 at 06:15:51, Albert Silver wrote:

>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)

Crafty 19.10 sticks with Nc7+ all the way past depth 15, with evaluations just
getting better
(edited output)
12       1:22     ++   3. Nc7+!!
12->   2:58   0.01   3. Nc7+ Kd8 4. Bxe7+ Kxc7 5. Qf4+ Kb6
                     6. Qd6+ Nc6 7. Qxc5+ Kc7 8. Qd6+ Kb6 9. Qc5+ (s=3)

13        3:34     ++   3. Nc7+!!
13->  20:45   0.55   3. Nc7+ Kf7 4. Qf4+ Kg8 5. Bxe7 d5
                     6. Qd6 Bc3 7. Ne8 Be1+ 8. Nxe1 Kf7
                     9. Nc7 Nd7 10. Nxa8 Re8

14       22:34     ++   3. Nc7+!!
14-> 233:53   3.79   3. Nc7+ Kd8 4. Bxe7+ Kxc7 5. Qf4+ Kb6
                     6. Qd6+ Nc6 7. Qxc5+ Kc7 8. Bd6+ Kd8
                     9. Qg5+ Ke8 10. Bxg6+ hxg6 11. Qxg6+ Kd8
                    12. Qxg7 Qa1 13. Qxa1 Rh6 14. Bf4 Re6
                    15. Ng5 Nb4 16. Nxe6+ dxe6 17. Qd4+ Nd5

15      254:15     --   3. Nc7+
15-> 823:51   3.92   3. Nc7+ Kd8 4. Bxe7+ Kxc7 5. Qf4+ Kb6
                     6. Qd6+ Nc6 7. Qxc5+ Kc7 8. Bd6+ Kd8
                     9. Qg5+ Ke8 10. Bxg6+ hxg6 11. Qxg6+ Kd8
                    12. Qxg7 Qa1 13. Qxa1 Rh6 14. Bf4 Re6
                    15. Ng5 a5 16. Qh8+ Ke7 17. Qg7+ Kd8
                    18. Nf7+ Ke8 (s=2)
Frank



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