Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 12:04:25 07/30/04
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On July 30, 2004 at 10:55:07, Albert Silver wrote: >The following position arose in a famous game between Taimanov and Karpov in >1973. Karpov sacrificed a pawn to prevent white from pushing c4, and obtain >excellent play against the hanging pawns using the two files. I expect that most >of the top engines should find this move, but the amateurs should find it much >harder. How does your engine do? > > Albert > >[D]2q2rk1/p1rn1ppp/1p2pn2/8/Q2P4/2P2N2/P2B1PPP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 17 > >17...Rc4! 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 > New game 2q2rk1/p1rn1ppp/1p2pn2/8/Q2P4/2P2N2/P2B1PPP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 1 Analysis by Junior 8: (Duron 1.3/64 MB hash) 1...e5 2.dxe5 ± (1.02) Depth: 3 00:00:00 1...h5 2.Qb5 ² (0.44) Depth: 3 00:00:00 1...h6 2.Qb5 ² (0.32) Depth: 3 00:00:00 1...a5 2.Qb5 ² (0.29) Depth: 3 00:00:00 1...Ne4 2.Qc2 Ndf6 3.Re1 Nxd2 4.Nxd2 = (0.14) Depth: 3 00:00:00 = (0.04) Depth: 6 00:00:00 6kN 1...a6 2.c4 Qb8 3.Qa3 a5 = (0.01) Depth: 6 00:00:00 8kN ² (0.59) Depth: 9 00:00:00 37kN 1...Ne4 2.c4 ² (0.34) Depth: 9 00:00:00 279kN 1...Rc4 2.Qxa7 Qc6 3.Qa3 h6 4.Re1 Nd5 5.Qb3 Rc8 6.Qb1 Nxc3 7.Bxc3 Rxc3 8.Rxc3 Qxc3 = (-0.24) Depth: 9 00:00:00 420kN ³ (-0.32) Depth: 21 00:18:26 951719kN (Utzinger, MyTown 30.07.2004)
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