Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 23:59:04 07/25/05
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On July 25, 2005 at 23:58:21, John Merlino wrote: >On July 25, 2005 at 22:35:56, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>A position taken from a G/2 I played earlier today with a pretty finish. >> >>[D]2r2rk1/3R2pp/p5n1/1pp1Pp2/5P2/2B2Q2/qPP3PP/3R2K1 w >> >>For those who want to solve it without a computer, I'll not give the killer >>move:) >> >>Terry > >I spotted it, but that's only because I knew what to look for. :-) When playing bullet, you always need to keep an eye on tactics and patterns, much of it is intuitive, for example in this game I didn't work out all the lines as it would be prohibitively costly. So you look at the outline and check the basic refutations as fast as possible which isn't easy, as you grow older...so many of my combos are lost on time or inaccuracies, or the failure to follow through correctly. Terry > >CM9_R1 on a P4-2.4 finds the move in less than one second, announces mate in >less than two seconds, and finally settles on mate in 10 after 0:21.... > >Time Depth Score Positions Moves >0:00 1/4 5.54 5719 1.Qb7 Rfe8 2.Rxg7+ Kf8 3.Rxh7 Qg8 > 4.e6 >0:00 1/4 9.08 19188 1.e6 Rfd8 2.Qb7 Rxd7 3.Qxc8+ Nf8 > 4.exd7 >0:00 1/5 9.17 37014 1.e6 Rf6 2.Qb7 Qxe6 3.Qxc8+ Nf8 > 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 >0:00 1/5 9.34 44109 1.Qb7 Rfe8 2.Rxg7+ Kf8 3.Rxh7 Ne7 > 4.Rxe7 Rb8 >0:00 1/6 9.66 83103 1.Qb7 Rf7 2.Qxc8+ Nf8 3.Rd8 b4 > 4.e6 bxc3 5.exf7+ Qxf7 >0:00 1/6 11.09 139654 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qc7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 >0:00 1/7 15.03 222649 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qc7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 Ne7 > 7.Qxe7 >0:01 1/8 Mate13 573117 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qc7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 Qb3 > 7.Qg7+ Kh5 8.Qxh7+ Kg4 9.Qxg6+ > Kxf4 10.Rf1+ Ke4 11.Qxf5+ Ke3 12.Qf3+ > Kd2 13.Qf2# >0:04 1/9 Mate11 1389437 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qb7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 Qb3 > 7.Bg5+ Kh5 8.g4+ Kxg4 9.Qg2+ Kh5 > 10.Qe2+ Qf3 11.Qxf3# >0:10 1/10 Mate11 3411889 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qb7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 Qb3 > 7.Bg5+ Kh5 8.g4+ Kxg4 9.Qg2+ Kh5 > 10.Qe2+ Qf3 11.Qxf3# >0:21 1/11 Mate10 7324735 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qb7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 Qb3 > 7.Bg5+ Kh5 8.Qxh7+ Kg4 9.cxb3 Nxf4 > 10.Qh4# >0:49 1/12 Mate10 17108271 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.e6+ Rf6 3.Qb7+ Kf8 > 4.Qxc8+ Kg7 5.Qb7+ Kh6 6.Bxf6 Qb3 > 7.Bg5+ Kh5 8.Qxh7+ Kg4 9.cxb3 Nxf4 > 10.Qh4# > >jm
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