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Subject: Re: Programmers... & Players

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:32:42 07/28/04

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On July 28, 2004 at 18:59:10, chandler yergin wrote:

>On July 28, 2004 at 16:17:41, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 28, 2004 at 15:33:11, chandler yergin wrote:
>>
>>>On July 28, 2004 at 08:14:08, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 28, 2004 at 02:44:22, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 27, 2004 at 20:30:35, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On July 27, 2004 at 19:15:32, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Come on guys...  Simple chess!
>>>>>>>A5 is a Howler!
>>>>>>>Kc4!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Kc4 after a5 is an illegal move.
>>>>>>If you mean Kd5 then a6 Be3 Bd2
>>>>>>same for Kf5
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>      A5 was made in the game..
>>>>>Kc4 "Instead" of.. Draws
>>>>>Both players & Fritz miss it.
>>>>>CY
>>>>
>>>>Can you demonstrate the win after a5?
>>>>
>>>>I prefered Kc4 but I cannot see a win for black also after a5 because white can
>>>>play later after king move of black a6 Be3 Bd2 and if black choose d2 immediatly
>>>>then Bxd2 Bxd2 Kc4 is enough for white for a draw.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Here is the Line I think has to be played after a5:
>>>I'm just playing chess here; I'm not sure Crafty or Hiarchs
>>>sees it; you can check it out.
>>>
>>>Griffith,D - Burkett,M [C55]
>>>WC-2003-F-00004 IECG (1), 20.12.2003
>>>
>>> 58.a5 d2 [58...Kf5] 59.Bxd2 Bxd2 60.a6 Be3 61.Kc4  [61...Kf5 62.Kd3 Kf4 63.Ke2
>>>Ba7 64.Kf1 Kg3 65.h4 h5 66.Ke2 Kxh4 67.Kf3 Kh3 68.Kf4 h4 69.Kf3 Kh2 70.Kg4 h3
>>>71.Kf3 Kg1 72.Kg3 h2 73.Kf4 h1Q]  0-1
>>
>>Why  60.a6 and not 60.Kc4  that seems leading to a draw?
>
>Exactly correct!  a6 is also a Bunder...
>60. Kc4 leads to a draw also!
>
>My point though, again, is that Fritz doesn't see it; but Crafty, Hiarchs,
>Ruffian, and others possibly do.
>
>What Engine do you use?
>
>Cheers!
>CY

Your point is wrong

Fritz has no problem to find Kc4 even without tablebases.
1 second with fast hardware after a6 it has no problem to find a big score for
black.


New game
[D]8/7p/4k3/PK6/8/7P/3b4/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 8:

3.a6--
  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 7/10   00:00:00  2kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6
  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 7/10   00:00:00  4kN
3.a6!
  µ  (-0.78)   Depth: 8/12   00:00:00  9kN
3.a6--
  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 9/12   00:00:00  17kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6
  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 9/12   00:00:00  24kN
3.a6!
  µ  (-0.78)   Depth: 10/14   00:00:00  61kN
3.a6--
  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 11/15   00:00:00  80kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6
  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 11/15   00:00:00  97kN
3.a6--
  µ  (-1.34)   Depth: 12/17   00:00:00  125kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6
  µ  (-1.34)   Depth: 12/17   00:00:00  137kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5 5.Kb7 Kf4 6.Kc8 Kg3 7.Kc7 Kxh3 8.Kb8
  µ  (-1.34)   Depth: 13/18   00:00:00  213kN
3.a6--
  -+  (-1.62)   Depth: 14/20   00:00:00  290kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6
  -+  (-1.62)   Depth: 14/20   00:00:00  325kN
3.a6--
  -+  (-1.91)   Depth: 15/20   00:00:00  541kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5
  -+  (-1.91)   Depth: 15/20   00:00:00  587kN
3.a6--
  -+  (-2.19)   Depth: 16/23   00:00:00  1082kN
3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5
  -+  (-2.19)   Depth: 16/23   00:00:00  1126kN
3.Kc4!
  -+  (-2.16)   Depth: 16/23   00:00:01  3013kN
3.Kc4 Kf5 4.Kd3 Bf4 5.a6 Bb8 6.Kd4 Ba7+ 7.Kd5 Kf4 8.h4 h5 9.Kc6 Kg4
  -+  (-2.19)   Depth: 17/24   00:00:03  6107kN
3.Kc4 Kf5 4.Kd3 Bf4 5.a6 Bb8 6.Kd4 Ba7+ 7.Kd5 Kf4 8.h4 h5 9.Kc6 Kg4
  -+  (-2.19)   Depth: 18/26   00:00:04  7976kN
3.Kc4 Be3 4.Kd3 Ba7 5.Ke4 Kd6 6.a6 Kc7 7.h4 Kb6 8.h5 Kc6 9.h6 Kb5 10.Kd5
  -+  (-1.94)   Depth: 19/28   00:00:19  33659kN
3.Kc4 Be3 4.Kd3 Ba7 5.Ke4 Kd6 6.a6 Kc7 7.h4 Kc8 8.h5 Kc7 9.h6 Kb6 10.Kd3
  -+  (-1.94)   Depth: 20/30   00:00:32  58685kN

(, MyTown 29.07.2004)

After a6?

New game
8/7p/P3k3/1K6/8/7P/3b4/8 b - - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 8:

3...Be3 4.Kc6 h5 5.Kb7 h4 6.Kb8 Kd5 7.Kb7 Bd4 8.Kb8
  µ  (-1.09)   Depth: 7/10   00:00:00  6kN
3...Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5 5.Kc7 Kf4 6.Kb7 Kg3 7.h4 Kxh4 8.Kb8 h5
  µ  (-1.28)   Depth: 8/15   00:00:00  12kN
3...Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5 5.Kc7 Kf4 6.Kb8 Kg3 7.a7 Bxa7+
  µ  (-1.38)   Depth: 9/15   00:00:00  23kN
3...Be3!
  -+  (-1.66)   Depth: 10/17   00:00:00  34kN
3...Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5 5.Kc7 Kf4 6.Kb8 Kg3 7.h4 Kxh4 8.Ka8 Kh3
  -+  (-1.84)   Depth: 11/18   00:00:00  59kN
3...Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5 5.Kc7 Kf4 6.h4 h5 7.Kc6 Bf2 8.Kb7 Kg3 9.Kb8
  -+  (-1.91)   Depth: 12/19   00:00:00  119kN
3...Be3 4.Kc6 Kf5 5.Kc7 Kf4 6.h4 h5 7.Kc6 Kg3 8.Kc7 Kxh4 9.Kb7 Kh3
  -+  (-2.16)   Depth: 13/21   00:00:00  214kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.Ke2 Ke6 7.Kf3 Kd5 8.h4 Kc6 9.h5 Kb5 10.Ke4 Kc6
  -+  (-2.22)   Depth: 14/20   00:00:00  403kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.Ke2 h5 7.Kf3 h4 8.Ke2 Kf4 9.Kf1 Ke5 10.Kg2 Kd5
11.Kf3
  -+  (-2.28)   Depth: 15/21   00:00:00  633kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.h4 Kg4 7.Ke4 Kxh4 8.Kd5 h5 9.Kc6 Kh3 10.Kb7
  -+  (-2.41)   Depth: 16/21   00:00:00  989kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.h4 Kg4 7.Ke4 Kxh4 8.Kd5 h5 9.Kc6 Kh3 10.Kc7 h4
11.Kb7 Be3
  -+  (-2.63)   Depth: 17/21   00:00:01  1486kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.h4 Kg4 7.Ke4 Kxh4 8.Kd5 h5 9.Kc6 Kg4 10.Kb7 Be3
11.Kc7 h4 12.Kb7 Kh3
  -+  (-2.88)   Depth: 18/24   00:00:01  2522kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.h4 Kg4 7.Ke4 Kxh4 8.Kd5 h5 9.Kc6 Kg4 10.Kb7 Be3
11.Kc7 h4
  -+  (-2.88)   Depth: 19/23   00:00:02  3413kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.h4 Kg4 7.Ke4 Kxh4 8.Kd5 h5 9.Kc6 Kg4 10.Kb7 Be3
11.Kc7 h4
  -+  (-2.88)   Depth: 20/27   00:00:03  5583kN
3...Be3!
  -+  (-3.16)   Depth: 21/26   00:00:05  7532kN
3...Be3 4.Kc4 Kf5 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.Ke2 Kf4 7.h4 h5 8.Ke1 Kg4 9.Ke2 Kxh4 10.Kf3 Kh3
11.Kf4 h4
  -+  (-3.34)   Depth: 22/32   00:00:14  24108kN
3...Be3!
  -+  (-3.63)   Depth: 23/34   00:00:19  33142kN

(, MyTown 29.07.2004)


Uri



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