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Subject: Re: Understanding You Chess, Position

Author: Martin Giepmans

Date: 13:39:52 09/11/04

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On September 11, 2004 at 13:18:08, Dan Andersson wrote:

>[D]r1bq1rk1/pp3pp1/2p1n2p/4PN2/1b6/2NB3P/PP3PP1/R2QR1K1 w - - 1 21
> Rizzitano 2485 - Wolfe 2353, Cambridge 1984
> The position is from 'Understanding Your Chess' by James Rizzitano. He played
>21. Qg4!! without realizing the bishop was hanging. One kindly interpretation
>might be to argue that his pattern recognition overrode any calculation effort
>:) I can recommend the book for both humans and as a source of test positions
>for both find and avoid moves.

<snip>
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Tough. My Spider needs nearly 7 minutes to find Qg4 (AMD 2000XP+)
..........
12  0:01:09  - 0.08  D1-F3 F8-E8 A1-C1 E6-D4 F3-G4 D4xF5 D3xF5 C8xF5 G4xF5
    0:01:43  - 0.01  D3-C2 E6-C5 F2-F4 C8xF5 C2xF5 G7-G6 F5-E4 F7-F5 E4-F3
13  0:02:23    0.00  D3-C2 D8xD1 A1xD1 E6-F4 F5-D6 C8-E6 E1-E4 B4xD6 D1xD6
14  0:04:43  + 0.06  D3-C2 D8xD1 A1xD1 E6-F4 F5-D6 C8-E6 E1-E4 B4xD6 D1xD6
    0:06:56  + 0.43  D1-G4 D8xD3 F5xH6 G8-H8 H6-F5 A7-A5 A2-A3 B4-C5 C3-E4
14  0:07:01  + 0.43  D1-G4 D8xD3 F5xH6 G8-H8 H6-F5 A7-A5 A2-A3 B4-C5 C3-E4
15  0:09:37  + 0.76  D1-G4 D8xD3 F5xH6 G8-H8 H6-F5 B4-A3 B2xA3 E6-G5 G4xG5
15  0:12:21  + 0.88  D1-G4 G8-H8 F5xG7 D8xD3 G7xE6 C8xE6 G4xB4 F8-G8 E1-E3
16  0:21:08  + 0.88  D1-G4 G8-H8 F5xG7 D8xD3 G7xE6 C8xE6 G4xB4 F8-G8 E1-E3
                     D3-A6 B4-E4 A8-D8 E3-F3 G8-G6 F3-F6 G6xF6 E5xF6

But it sees that the move leaves the Bishop en prise.
That might be a severe handicap. :)

Martin



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