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Subject: Re: test position - Bxa7

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 07:14:38 03/23/05

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On March 23, 2005 at 09:56:43, Tom Brake wrote:

>[D]k3rr2/ppp1nqbp/3pp1b1/PP2p3/NNP1Pp1Q/3P1P2/5BPP/RR2K3 w - - 0 1
>
>Bxa7!  Apparently not too easy to find for silicon, even in such a contrived
>position.
>
>On an amd64-3000 CM9K:
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	-0.07	948		1.a6 b6 2.Kf1
>0:00	1/4	-0.15	2541		1.a6 b6 2.Kf1 Rg8
>0:00	1/5	-0.14	11706		1.a6 b6 2.Kf1 Rg8 3.Nc3
>0:00	1/6	-0.33	42619		1.a6 b6 2.Kf1 Bf6 3.Qh3 Rg8
>0:00	1/7	-0.22	99322		1.a6 b6 2.Nc3 Bf6 3.Qh3 h5 4.Kf1
>0:01	1/8	-0.42	346669		1.a6 b6 2.Kf1 Bf6 3.Qh6 Rg8 4.d4
>					Bh5
>0:02	1/8	-0.39	871543		1.Kd2 Bf6 2.Qh3 h5 3.a6 b6 4.g4 Rh8
>0:03	1/8	-0.22	1158857		1.b6 c5 2.Nxc5 dxc5 3.Bxc5 Qf6
>					4.Qf2 Rd8 5.bxa7 Rfe8
>0:05	1/9	-0.04	1767257		1.b6 c5 2.Nxc5 dxc5 3.Bxc5 Qf6
>					4.Qf2 Rd8 5.bxa7 Rfe8 6.Kf1
>0:15	2/10	0.20	4752869		1.b6 c5 2.Nxc5 dxc5 3.Bxc5 Rg8
>					4.a6 axb6 5.Bxb6 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6
>					7.Kd2 Qe7
>0:54	2/11	0.54	18266260	1.b6 c5 2.Bxc5 Bf6 3.Qf2 Nc8 4.a6
>					h6 5.bxa7 dxc5 6.axb7+ Qxb7 7.Nxc5
>1:35	2/11	0.98	32555331	1.Bxa7 Bf6 2.Qf2 Nc8 3.a6 b6 4.Nc6
>					Bd8 5.Bb8 Qd7 6.Kf1
>2:32	2/12	1.04	51816526	1.Bxa7 Bf6 2.Qf2 Nc8 3.a6 b6 4.Bxb6
>					cxb6 5.Nxb6+ Nxb6 6.Qxb6 Rc8 7.Nc6
>					Rg8
>5:24	3/13	1.04	120242828	1.Bxa7 Bf6 2.Qf2 Nc8 3.a6 b6 4.Nc6
>					Bd8 5.Nxd8 Rxd8 6.Bxb6 cxb6 7.Nxb6+
>					Nxb6 8.Qxb6 Qd7


Interesting position.  Look how long it takes Shredder 9 to finish its fail high
:

Shredder 9 UCI by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, www.shredderchess.com
CPU0: GenuineIntel x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 6 598 MHz
GUI: Tablebases with 5 pieces found! [Cache: 64 MB + internal 13.67 MB]
Engine: Shredder 9 UCI (512 MB)
by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Position:  0 1
 10/30	 0:01 	+0.88 	1.Nc3 Bf6 2.Qh3 Rg8 3.Kd2 Kb8 4.a6 b6 5.Kc2 Rd8 6.Rc1
(658.575) 476
 11/40	 0:02 	+0.89 	1.Nc3 Rg8 2.Ke2 Kb8 3.b6 axb6 4.axb6 c5 5.Nc2 Bf6 6.Qh6 Kc8
(1.199.099) 467
 12/36	 0:05 	+1.04 	1.Nc3 Rg8 2.Ke2 h6 3.Qh3 (2.309.848) 455
 13/36	 0:07 	+0.92 	1.Nc3 Rg8 2.Ke2 Bf6 3.Qh3 Nc8 4.a6 b6 5.Re1 Bh5 6.Ra3 Ne7
7.Kd2 (3.545.301) 455
 13/36	 0:09 	+0.93++	1.b6 (4.619.961) 462
 13/36	 0:10 	+0.93 	1.b6 c5 2.a6 cxb4 (4.789.443) 463
 13/36	 0:13 	+0.94++	1.Bg1 (6.394.600) 458
 13/36	 0:19 	+0.95 	1.Bg1 Nc8 2.Nc3 Rg8 (9.243.851) 465
 14/34	 0:23 	+0.95 	1.Bg1 Nc8 2.Nc3 Rg8 3.Kd2 Bf6 4.Qf2 Bh5 5.a6 b6 6.Kc1 Ne7
(11.004.335) 466
 14/36	 0:25 	+0.96++	1.Nc3 (11.962.960) 463
 14/40	 0:32 	+1.07 	1.Nc3 Bf6 2.Qh3 Nc8 3.Ke2 Rg8 4.a6 (14.964.847) 460
 15/37	 0:43 	+1.04 	1.Nc3 Bf6 2.Qh3 Nc8 3.Kd2 Rg8 4.a6 b6 5.Nc6 Ne7 6.Ra2 Bh5
7.Kc1 Nxc6 8.bxc6 Kb8 9.Rab2 Qg6 (20.105.486) 464
 15/37	 0:52 	+1.05++	1.Bxa7 (24.254.817) 466
 15/38	 0:57 	+1.40++	1.Bxa7 (26.818.370) 466
 15/50	 9:48 	+3.13 	1.Bxa7 Nf5 2.exf5 exf5 3.b6 e4 4.Nd5 (267.142.481) 454

That's on a 1.8 GHz Centrino. That's one of the biggest fail highs I've seen in
a very long time!

Roy



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