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Subject: Re: Interesting Position from 1834 game in London

Author: Cliff Sears

Date: 18:43:00 09/05/04

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On September 05, 2004 at 12:13:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 05, 2004 at 11:09:55, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On September 04, 2004 at 23:47:22, Michael Neish wrote:
>>
>>>On September 04, 2004 at 21:39:53, Cliff Sears wrote:
>>>
>>>>[d] 4rrk1/1b2bppp/2q5/p1P1p3/3pN3/5P2/PPB1Q1PP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 20
>>>
>>>>>Black to move and the move made by Black was "f5" "Black immediately begins
>>>>the decisive advance. Note that he spends no time on prophylaxis against
>>>>White's Queenside play, confident that his pawn-storm will sweep everything
>>>>from its path"
>>>>
>>>>Black went on to win.
>>>
>>>For your information, Ruffian 1.0.1 likes Rc8 up to depth 11, then cat depth 12
>>>changes to Qc7, to Rb8 and finally to Ba6, giving a score of +0.55 in favour of
>>>Black.  If it changes again I'll let you know.
>>>
>>>BUT,
>>>
>>>1) Is f4 the best move, and White failed to find the best resistance?
>>>
>>>2) How did the actual game continue?
>>>
>>>A sample line with Ruffian goes as follows:
>>>
>>>1) ...   f5
>>>2) Qc4+  Qd5
>>>3) Bb3   Qxc4
>>>4) Bxc4+ Kh8
>>>5) Nd6   Bxd6
>>>6) cxd6  Rd8
>>>7) f4
>>>
>>>at which point it thinks White is doing pretty well, +1.09.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Mike.
>>
>>Obviously not Qd5.
>>
>>anthony
>
>Yes
>
>It is not an easy test position but movei finally at depth 16 (after almost 20
>minutes on fast hardware) failed high
>
>depth=16 -0.18 g8h8
>Nodes: 624026840 NPS: 549682
>Time: 00:18:55.25
>depth=16 -0.02 g8h8 e4d6 e7d6 c2a4 c6c5 c4c5 d6c5 a4e8 c5b6 e8c6 d4d3 g1h1 b7a6
>c6d5 b6d4 d5c4 a6c4 c1c4
>Nodes: 850401788 NPS: 547713
>Time: 00:25:52.64
>
>Uri

Rebel 12 did select "f5" but later changed it to Qh6

00:00:40.0	0.47	7	5823301	f5 Qc4+ Qd5 Qa4 Bc6 Bb3 Bxa4 Bxd5+ Kh8 b3 Rd8
00:01:22.7	0.33	8	12163433	f5 Qc4+ Qd5 Bb3 Qxc4 Bxc4+ Kh8 Nd6 Bxd6 cxd6 Bc6 Ba6
Ba4
00:01:25.3	0.45	8	12580635	Qh6 Ba4 Rc8 Qe1 Qa6 f4







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