Author: Darrel Briley
Date: 01:05:38 03/29/05
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On March 29, 2005 at 03:40:01, Richard Pijl wrote: >On March 29, 2005 at 03:36:24, Richard Pijl wrote: > >>On March 28, 2005 at 17:01:26, Darrel Briley wrote: >> >>>The game ends in a draw, but I have to wonder if Shredder would've brought home >>>the full point at longer time controls (game was blitz 10 6). I'll let others >>>argue about whether the sacrifices were tactical or positional (I tend to think >>>of it as a little of both since it exposes the enemy King without a clear >>>material gain...anyway, take a look at the postiion at white's 22nd move...I'd >>>post a diagram if I knew how (is there an FAQ on that somewhere for this forum?) >> >>Just put [D] in front of a FEN string; that will print the Diagram. >> > >This is one of those positions that is sensitive to tuning. When I make the >Baron to like sacrifices a little bit more, it stays with Bxh6 already in 4.5 >seconds (just add 'sacrifices 4' to the baron.ini file to see for yourself. >'sacrifices 3' is the default setting): > > ply time nodes score pv > 6(12)& 0:00.55 125207 +0.36 Rc1-a1 Rc8-a8 c3-c4 Ra8xa1 Re1xa1 > b5xc4 d3xc4 > 6(12)& 0:00.89 208779 +0.38 Rc1-d1 Nd5-b6 Bd2-f4 Be7-d6 Bf4xd6 > Qc7xd6 d3-d4 > 6(12)+ 0:01.25 283794 +0.68 Bd2xh6 (g7xh6) (Ng4xh6) (Kg8-f8) (Nh6xf7) > (Be7-f6) (Nf3-g5) > 6(12)& 0:01.33 306542 +0.72 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Nd5xc3 Qe2xe6 > 6(12). 0:01.38 317495 +0.72 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Nd5xc3 Qe2xe6 > 7(13)- 0:01.95 456190 +0.42 Bd2xh6 (g7xh6) (Ng4xh6) (Kg8-f8) (Nh6xf7) > (Be7-f6) (Nf3-g5) (Nc6-e5) > 7(13)& 0:02.44 570724 +0.37 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Be7-f6 Nf3-g5 Nc6-e5 > 7(13)& 0:02.61 615847 +0.41 c3-c4 b5xc4 d3xc4 Nd5-b6 Bd2-f4 > Qc7-d7 Nf3-e5 > 7(13). 0:02.88 683473 +0.41 c3-c4 b5xc4 d3xc4 Nd5-b6 Bd2-f4 > Qc7-d7 Nf3-e5 > 8(12)& 0:03.34 799868 +0.17 c3-c4 b5xc4 d3xc4 Nd5-b6 Bd2-f4 > Qc7-d8 Nf3-e5 Nc6-d4 > 8(14)& 0:04.58 1110141 +0.33 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Be7-f6 Nf3-g5 Nc6-e5 c3-c4 > 8(15). 0:09.53 2195714 +0.33 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Be7-f6 Nf3-g5 Nc6-e5 c3-c4 > 9(15)& 0:12.11 2839229 +0.33 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Be7-f6 Nf3-g5 Nc6-e5 c3-c4 Ne5xf7 (Ng5xe6) > > 9(15). 0:23.81 5600748 +0.33 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-f8 Nh6xf7 > Be7-f6 Nf3-g5 Nc6-e5 c3-c4 Ne5xf7 (Ng5xe6) > > 10(14)+ 0:31.39 7452377 +0.63 Bd2xh6 (g7xh6) (Ng4xh6) (Kg8-f8) (Nh6xf7) > (Be7-f6) (Nf3-g5) (Nc6-e5) (Nf7xe5) >(Bf6xg5) (Rc1-a1) > 10(16)& 0:42.84 10183863 +0.74 Bd2xh6 g7xh6 Ng4xh6 Kg8-g7 Nh6xf7 > Nc6-d8 Nf3-g5 B^C Yes, Shredder saw the sac immediately, and played the move very quickly... I have to say it was a good old fashioned "king hunt". Here's my first try at a diagram. [D]2r1r1k1/1bq1bpp1/2n1p2p/1ppn4/6N1/2PP1NP1/1P1BQPBP/2R1R1K1 w - -
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