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Subject: Re: Just curious

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 10:54:43 10/10/05

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On October 10, 2005 at 13:30:22, David Shanholtzer wrote:

>Below should be a diagram and position fen from Svidler-Topalov, FIDE Ch
>currently underway.
>
>L. Kavalek in his column mentions Shredder suggesting the continuation of
>15...Nf3+!: "A piercing combination that is sufficient for a draw. Topalov
>picked it up from his second, Ivan Cheripanov. It was also suggested by the
>computer program Shredder."
>
>Curious, I inserted the position into my older computer to see at what depth
>Shredder 9 would pick up on this. This particular computer is a Dell 866 MHz cpu
>with 512 Megs of RAM and WinXP SP 2. Fritz 8 GUI.
>
>Shredder 9 came up with the continuation 15...Nf3+! at 13 ply.
>
>
>[D] r3k2r/1p3pb1/p1npp2p/q3nPp1/8/2P1N1BP/PP3PP1/R2QKB1R b - - 0 15
>
>Additionally,
>
>Fritz 8 settled on 15...Nf3+! after 11 ply. Toga II v. 1.0 after 12 ply. Junior
>9 took 14 ply, Gambit Tiger 2.0 10 ply, and Hiarcs 9 9 ply. Interestingly, to
>me, CM9k Slayer took 7 ply, discarded it, came back to it after 9 play and
>settled there. CMX Dayffd 4.3 took 10 ply. I've not had any other engines take a
>look at it.
>
>Out of curiosity, and for anyone that would care to give it a quick look, are
>these ply depths similar to what others obtain to find 15...Nf3+? (FWIW, CMX
>Dayffd 4.3 is not yet publicized, and I'm not sure it is quite strong enough.)

New game,
r3k2r/1p3pb1/p1npp2p/q3nPp1/8/2P1N1BP/PP3PP1/R2QKB1R b - - 0 1

Analysis by Shredder 8:

1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00
1...Qb6 2.Rb1
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 8/8   00:00:00  8kN
1...Qb6 2.Rb1 Ke7 3.Be2 Rhd8 4.Kf1 Kf8 5.fxe6
  =  (0.08)   Depth: 8/26   00:00:00  96kN
1...Qb6 2.Qb3 Qxb3 3.axb3 Rd8 4.fxe6 Ke7 5.exf7 Rdg8 6.fxg8Q
  ²  (0.33)   Depth: 9/28   00:00:01  575kN
1...Qb6 2.Qb3 Qxb3 3.axb3 d5 4.Rd1 Nd7 5.Bd6 Rd8 6.fxe6 fxe6 7.Bd3
  ²  (0.61)   Depth: 9/28   00:00:02  741kN
1...Ke7 2.Be2 Rhd8 3.Kf1 Qb6 4.fxe6 Qxb2
  ²  (0.60)   Depth: 9/28   00:00:02  856kN
1...Ke7 2.Be2 Rhd8 3.Kf1 Qb6 4.fxe6 fxe6 5.Qxd6+
  =  (0.25)   Depth: 9/28   00:00:03  944kN
1...Ke7 2.Be2 Rhd8 3.Kf1 Qb6 4.Kg1 Qxb2
  =  (0.23)   Depth: 9/28   00:00:03  1081kN
1...Ke7 2.Be2 Rhd8 3.Kf1 Qb6 4.fxe6 fxe6 5.Kg1 Qxb2
  =  (0.23)   Depth: 10/29   00:00:06  1586kN
1...Ke7 2.Be2 Rhd8 3.Kf1 Rac8 4.Kg1 Qc7 5.fxe6
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 11/31   00:00:11  3069kN
1...Qb6 2.Qb3 Qxb3 3.axb3 d5 4.Bb5 Ke7 5.Bxc6 bxc6 6.Ra5
  ²  (0.46)   Depth: 11/31   00:00:12  3389kN
1...Qb6 2.Qb3 Qxb3 3.axb3 d5 4.Rd1 Nd7 5.fxe6 fxe6 6.Be2 Nc5 7.Bh5+ Ke7
  ²  (0.45)   Depth: 11/31   00:00:14  3908kN
1...Kd7 2.Bc4 Rhc8 3.Kf1 Qb6
  ²  (0.44)   Depth: 11/31   00:00:17  5043kN
1...Kd7 2.Be2 Qc5 3.Kf1 Raf8 4.Qb3 exf5
  ²  (0.42)   Depth: 11/33   00:00:27  7926kN
1...d5 2.fxe6 fxe6 3.Be2 Qb6 4.Kf1 Rf8 5.Bh5+ Kd7
  ²  (0.41)   Depth: 11/33   00:00:31  9144kN
1...d5 2.fxe6 fxe6 3.Be2 Rf8 4.Qb3 Qc7 5.Bh5+ Kd7 6.Kf1 Rad8
  =  (0.23)   Depth: 11/35   00:00:34  10047kN
1...d5 2.fxe6 fxe6 3.Be2 Rf8 4.Qc2 Qb6 5.Rb1 Rd8 6.Bxe5 Bxe5
  =  (0.18)   Depth: 12/33   00:00:43  12342kN
1...d5 2.fxe6 fxe6 3.Be2 Qb6 4.Qc2 Kd7 5.Qb3 Qa7 6.Kf1 Rhf8
  ²  (0.28)   Depth: 13/39   00:01:07  19716kN
1...Nf3+ 2.Ke2 Nfd4+ 3.cxd4 Nxd4+ 4.Kd3 Qb5+ 5.Kd2 Qxb2+ 6.Qc2 Qxa1 7.Bxd6
  ²  (0.27)   Depth: 13/41   00:01:24  25145kN

(,  10.10.2005)




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