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Subject: Re: avoid move

Author: A. Cozzie

Date: 12:15:02 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 15:08:39, John Merlino wrote:

>On August 11, 2005 at 11:52:20, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>[d]2rq3k/Qp1r2pp/1P6/2p1pP2/1b6/3PBB1b/4PP1P/R1R3K1 b - - am Bxf5
>
>CM9_R1 on an AMD 2500 does not see anything better than Bxf5 in under five
>minutes:
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	0.65	1779		1...Qe7 2.Be4 Rf8
>0:00	1/4	0.14	4229		1...Qe7 2.Be4 Rf8 3.Qa2 Bxf5 4.Bxf5
>					Rxf5
>0:00	1/4	-0.15	8696		1...Bxf5 2.Bg2 Qe7 3.Rc4 Be6
>0:00	1/5	-0.15	15259		1...Bxf5 2.Bg2 Qe7 3.Rc4 Be6
>0:00	1/6	-0.08	40337		1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bg2 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.Bxc5
>0:00	1/7	-0.08	172253		1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bg2 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.Bxc5
>0:01	1/8	-0.06	288147		1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bc6 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.f3 Be6 6.Bxa8 Qxa8
>					7.Bxc5
>0:03	1/9	0.03	790884		1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bc6 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.Bxc5 Bd2
>					7.Rc4
>0:07	1/10	0.00	1792747		1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bg2 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.Bxc5 Bd2 6.Rc2 Bf4
>					7.Bxa8 Qxa8
>0:16	1/11	0.20	4334263		1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bg2 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.Bxc5 Bd2
>					7.Rc2 Bf4 8.e4
>0:42	1/12	0.20	11644968	1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bg2 Rxa7
>					4.bxa7 Ra8 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.Bxc5 Bd2
>					7.Rc2 Bf4 8.e4
>2:08	1/13	0.54	35947673	1...Bxf5 2.Bxb7 Rb8 3.Bg2 Rxb6
>					4.Qa8 Rb8 5.Qxb8 Qxb8 6.Ra8 Qxa8
>					7.Bxa8 Ba3 8.Rc2 Rc7 9.Bd5 Bb4
>
>jm

This is a tough position.  Zappa (4 CPUs) needs 17 ply / 3 minutes (or 14 ply /
1 minute with SE) to see -2.5 for Black after Bxf5.

However the alternative (Qe7) is also lost, so I guess the correct goal here
should be 'get +1 for white'.

anthony



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