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Subject: Re: an endgame test position

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 16:05:44 08/28/04

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On August 28, 2004 at 18:40:43, martin fierz wrote:

>aloha!
>
>after all the cloning talk, here's something to test your favorite engine with:
>i played a weakish IM today and got the following position after 56...Qg6+
>57.Kf2:
>
>[D] 8/6kp/8/3p4/1P4q1/P4p2/5K2/4Q3 b - - 0 57
>
>it took me a couple of seconds to see that after 57...Qh4+ 58. Kf1 Qxe1+ 59.
>Kxe1 Kf6 black is completely winning due to the floating square (it's nice to
>see that reading dvoretzky is some good!) and so i played that and won :-)
>
>interestingly, when i entered this game in chessbase running fritz7 in the
>background, fritz didn't seem to see this at all within a minute or so. so
>question to all: how long does your favorite engine need to see the line ...Qh4+
>Kf1 Qxe1+ with a HUGE plus score (i.e. +9 or so - that is what my assessment of
>the position was after a couple of seconds...)?
>
>i don't want to claim that this is the only win, but it is by far the easiest
>one, and fritz 7 misses it completely.
>
>cheers
>  martin

Ruffian 2.1.0 doesn't see it either...

Ruffian 2.1.0  WB2:
 1   00:00 -0.69   1. ... h6
 1   00:00 -0.80   1. ... h5
 1   00:00 -0.98   1. ... d4
 1   00:00 -1.64   1. ... Qh4+ 2.Kf1
 2   00:00 -1.84   1. ... Qh4+ 2.Kf1 Qxe1+ 3.Kxe1 Kf6
 3   00:00 -1.24   1. ... Qh4+ 2.Kf1 Qxe1+ 3.Kxe1 Kf6 4.Kf2
 3   00:00 -1.40   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.a4 Ke6
 4   00:00 -2.09   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qd2 Qxd2+ 4.Kxd2 f2 5.Ke2
 5   00:00 -1.61   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qd1 f2 4.Qh5+ Kg8 5.Qe8+ Kg7 6.Qe7+
Kg6
 6   00:00 -2.05   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf8 3.Qd2 Qxd2+ 4.Kxd2 d4 5.a4 f2 6.Ke2
 7   00:00 -2.25   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf8 3.Qd2 d4+ 4.Kd3 Qxd2+ 5.Kxd2 Ke7 6.a4
f2 7.Ke2
 8   00:01 -2.15   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf8 3.Qd2 Qg5+ 4.Kd3 Qg6+ 5.Ke3 Qh6+ 6.Kd3
Qa6+ 7.Kd4 Qa7+ 8.Ke5 f2 9.Qd3
 9   00:02 -1.94   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf8 3.Qd2 d4+ 4.Kd3 Qxd2+ 5.Kxd2 Ke7 6.a4
h5 7.b5 f2 8.Ke2
10   00:08 -1.96   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qb1 Qe2+ 4.Kd4 Qe4+ 5.Qxe4 dxe4 6.Ke3
h5 7.a4 Ke6 8.b5
11   00:19 -2.03   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qb1 Qe2+ 4.Kd4 Qe4+ 5.Qxe4 dxe4 6.Ke3
h5 7.b5 Ke6 8.b6 Kd6
12   00:49 -2.20   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qb1 Qe2+ 4.Kd4 Ke6 5.Qxh7 Qd2+ 6.Kc5
Qc3+ 7.Kb5 Qxa3 8.Qg8+ Ke5 9.Qg3+ Ke4 10.Qf2 d4
13   01:46 -2.05   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qb1 Qe2+ 4.Kd4 Ke6 5.Qxh7 Qd2+ 6.Kc5
Qc3+ 7.Kb5 Qxa3 8.Qg8+ Ke5 9.Qg3+ Ke4 10.Qh4+ Ke3 11.Qg5+ Kd3 12.Qxd5+ Ke3
14   02:18 -2.40   1. ... Qg2+
14   03:49 -3.40   1. ... Qg2+ 2.Ke3 Kf7 3.Qd1 d4+ 4.Kd3 Qg3 5.Kc4 f2 6.Qh5+ Kg7
7.Qf5 Qc7+ 8.Kb5 Qb7+ 9.Ka5 Qa8+ 10.Kb5 Qe8+ 11.Ka5 Qe3 12.Ka4 d3

Regards
Dave



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