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Subject: Re: u2600 Position of the Week

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 03:08:01 03/01/99

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On March 01, 1999 at 04:48:28, Will Singleton wrote:

>u2600 Position of the Week
>--------------------------
>
>5R2/8/8/4rp2/3r4/5k2/2B1p2P/2K1R3 w - -
>ArasanX Amateur, 0-1, 1999.02.27, fics
>
>In this position, White played 78. Rg8 and lost.  Could your
>program avoid that move within 10 seconds or so?  The game might be
>lost in any event (not sure); there is still some play left.

Here is the search output of Hossa:

    1   -159    0      13  e1xe2
    1    274    0      17  c2xf5
    2    273    0      81  c2xf5 e5d5
    2    291    0     187  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5
    3    291    0     403  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 d4d5
    4    -81    0    2836  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 f3f2 e1h1
    4    150    0    4061  f8g8 d4g4 g8f8
    4    162    0    7641  c1b2 f3f2 b2c3
    5    -86    0   36127  c1b2 f3f2 f8xf5 e5xf5 e1xe2 f2xe2 c2xf5
    5    117    0   39737  f8g8 d4h4 g8g5 h4xh2 c2xf5
    6    117    0   58818  f8g8 d4h4 g8g5 h4xh2 c2xf5
    7     67    2  253139  f8g8 d4h4 g8g5 f3f2 g5g1 h4xh2 c1b2
    8   -139   12 1202421  f8g8 f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 h4 d4c4 c1d2 c4xc2
    8    -79   13 1317810  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 f3f2 e1h1 e2e1Q h1xe1 f2xe1 c1c2
e1e2
    8    -78   17 1722230  c2xf5 f3f2 e1h1 e2e1Q h1xe1 f2xe1 c1c2 e1e2
    9    -92   24 2514026  c2xf5 f3f2 e1xe2 f2xe2 h3 e5c5 c1b2 d4b4 b2a3 c5b5
f8f6 e2e3
    9    -84   27 2769280  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 f3f2 e1xe2 f2xe2 c1c2 d4c4 c2b3
c4f4 f5e6 f4d4
   10    -84   39 4124386  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 f3f2 e1xe2 f2xe2 c1c2 d4c4 c2b3
c4f4 f5e6 f4d4
   11    -79   97 9865034  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 f3f2 e1xe2 f2xe2 c1c2 d4d5 f5e6
d5d2 c2c3 d2d3 c3c4 e2e3
   12    -79  206 21799563  f8xf5 e5xf5 c2xf5 f3f2 e1xe2 f2xe2 c1c2 e2e3 h3 d4d5
f5e6 d5c5 c2b3 e3e4


> Note the wide difference between Amateur and MacChess in their analyses.
>MacChess takes only 3 seconds to discard Rg8, running at over 300k nps.
>Amateur, otoh, takes 43 seconds to realize what's happening (both at ply 9).
>(The follow-on position is also worth a look.  Does your prog play 78... Kf2
>quickly?)

If you setup the position aftern move 78.Rg8 Hossa computes this:

    1   -703    0       3  d4d2
    1   -138    0       7  f4
    2   -155    0      79  f4 h4
    2   -150    0     300  d4g4 g8f8
    3   -150    0     605  d4g4 g8f8
    4   -159    0    1642  d4g4 g8xg4 f3xg4 c1d2
    4   -150    0    5223  e5a5 g8g3 f3f2 g3g1
    4   -117    0    8551  d4h4 g8g5 h4xh2 c2xf5
    5   -117    0   12808  d4h4 g8g5 h4xh2 c2xf5
    6    -67    1   74535  d4h4 g8g5 f3f2 g5g1 h4xh2 c1b2
    7    -67    1  124237  d4h4 g8g5 f3f2 g5g1 h4xh2 c1b2
    7    -61    4  392327  f4 c1b2 e5h5 b2c3 d4d6 c2d3
    7    139    4  485981  f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 h4 d4c4 c1d2 c4xc2
    8    140    5  570007  f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 h4 d4g4 g1h1 g4c4 c1d2
    9    162    9 1055563  f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 c1b1 d4g4 g1h1 g4b4 b1c1 b4c4 c1d2
   10    166   24 2683851  f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 h4 f4 h5 d4c4 c1d2 c4xc2
   11    193   80 8878161  f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 c1b1 d4b4 b1c1 b4c4 c1d2 c4xc2 d2d3 f4
h4 f3
   12    193  247 27347295  f3f2 g8g1 e5c5 c1b1 d4b4 b1c1 b4c4 c1d2 c4xc2 d2d3
f4 h4 f3

Greetings,
Steffen.



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