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Subject: Re: Humans still find inevitable attacks better,test position needs analysis

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 20:46:12 04/08/04

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On April 08, 2004 at 23:39:50, John Merlino wrote:

>On April 08, 2004 at 22:15:00, scott farrell wrote:
>
>>This position arose on ICC Goona vs Chompsterx
>>
>>here white has an attack coming, with a bishop sac on g6, and black's pieces are
>>woefully out of position to defend. While white can poure more pieces in.
>>
>>The obvious move is g6, but chompster and crafty see black is still winning
>>until some depth, where they realise white is winning.
>>
>>I had cm9000 look at it for a few minutes on a PIII850 and it still says g6, but
>>says white is winning by the smallest of margins.
>>
>>As far as I can see its lost for black.
>>
>>I am interested in what other engines think.
>>
>>[d]r4rk1/p2b1ppp/1qn2P2/3pP3/2pP4/b1P1BN1P/P1B2Q2/R4NK1 b - - 0 23
>>
>>as you can see below crafty takes about 12 plies to see its in trouble, and 14
>>plies and overnight to see ne7.
>>
>>I am unsure if ne7 is a better move
>
>The CM_SKR personality of Chessmaster 9000, on an AMD 1800+, switches from g6 to
>Ne7 in about 90 seconds.
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	-1.60	2528		23...g6 24.Rb1 Bb2 25.Ba4
>0:00	1/4	-1.71	24215		23...g6 24.Rb1 Qa5 25.Bh6 Qxc3
>					26.Bxf8 Rxf8
>0:00	1/5	-1.58	74717		23...g6 24.Bh6 Rfb8 25.Ne3 Qa5
>0:00	1/6	-1.65	111608		23...g6 24.Qh4 h5 25.Rb1 Bb2 26.Ba4
>0:01	1/7	-0.85	202273		23...g6 24.Qh4 Rfb8 25.Ng5 h5 26.e6
>					Be8 27.exf7+ Bxf7 28.Nxf7 Kxf7
>0:03	1/8	-1.19	518286		23...g6 24.Qh4 Rfb8 25.Ng5 h5 26.e6
>					Bxe6 27.Nxe6 Qb2 28.Rc1 fxe6 29.Bxg6
>
>0:07	1/9	0.30	1307872		23...g6 24.Qh4 Rfc8 25.Bxg6 fxg6
>					26.f7+ Kxf7 27.Qxh7+ Ke8 28.Qg8+
>					Bf8 29.Bh6 Kd8 30.Qxf8+ Kc7
>1:03	1/10	0.64	12174030	23...g6 24.Qh4 Rfb8 25.Bxg6 fxg6
>					26.f7+ Kxf7 27.Qxh7+ Ke8 28.Qg8+
>					Bf8 29.Bh6 Bxh3 30.Qxf8+ Kd7 31.Qd6+
>					Kc8 32.Qxd5 Qa6
>1:32	1/10	0.26	19539768	23...Ne7 24.Bc1 Qa6 25.Bxa3 Qxa3
>					26.fxe7 Qxe7 27.Ne3 Be6 28.Qh4
>					Qxh4 29.Nxh4 Rab8 30.Rb1 Rxb1+
>					31.Bxb1 Rb8
>3:16	1/11	0.60	44098576	23...Ne7 24.Bc1 Bxc1 25.fxe7 Rfe8
>					26.Rxc1 h6 27.Ne3 Qa5 28.Rb1 Bc6
>					29.Ng4 Rxe7
>
>jm

The CM_OFFSET personality of Chessmaster 9000, on an P3 850, switches from g6 to
Ne7 in about 6 minutes.

Then at about 28 minutes realizes that black is not winning...

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-2.35	3075		1...Bb2 2.Qh4 g6 3.Qh6
0:00	1/3	-2.61	4706		1...Qb2 2.fxg7 Qxa1 3.gxf8=Q+ Rxf8
					4.Qh4
0:00	1/4	-0.91	19069		1...Qb2 2.Bxh7+ Kh8 3.Qh4 g5 4.Qxg5
0:00	1/4	-2.54	21234		1...g6 2.Qh4 h5 3.Rb1
0:00	1/5	-2.44	57482		1...g6 2.Qh4 h5 3.Rb1 Bb2 4.Ba4
0:01	1/6	-2.53	103363		1...g6 2.Qh4 Rfb8 3.Ng5 h5 4.e6
					Be8 5.exf7+ Bxf7 6.Nxf7 Kxf7
0:03	1/7	-2.35	233345		1...g6 2.Rb1 Qa5 3.Qh4 Rfb8 4.Qh6
					Bf8
0:10	1/8	-2.73	878303		1...g6 2.Qh4 Rfb8 3.Ng5 h5 4.e6
					Bxe6 5.Nxe6 Qb2 6.Rc1 fxe6 7.Bxg6
0:19	1/9	-2.20	1686037		1...g6 2.Qh4 Rfb8 3.Bxg6 fxg6 4.f7+
					Kxf7 5.Qxh7+ Ke8 6.Qh8+ Bf8 7.Bh6
					Bxh3 8.Qxf8+ Kd7
1:20	1/10	-1.14	7158345		1...g6 2.Qh4 Rfb8 3.Ng5 h5 4.Nxf7
					Qb2 5.Bxg6 Bxh3 6.Qxh3 Qxa1 7.Qxh5
6:03	1/10	-1.31	33217927	1...Ne7 2.Ng5 h6 3.Nh7 Rfd8 4.fxg7
					Kxg7 5.Nf6 Kh8 6.Nxd7 Rxd7 7.Qxf7
					Rg8+ 8.Kh2
14:32	1/11	-1.31	80860146	1...Ne7 2.Ng5 h6 3.Nh7 Rfd8 4.fxg7
					Kxg7 5.Nf6 Kh8 6.Nxd7 Rxd7 7.Qxf7
					Rg8+ 8.Kh2
28:00	1/12	-0.98	155400611	1...Ne7 2.Ng5 h6 3.Nh7 Rfd8 4.fxg7
					Kxg7 5.Nf6 Ng6 6.Nh5+ Kg8 7.Nf6+
					Kh8 8.Nxd5 Qe6
Dan











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