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Subject: Re: u2600 Club ICC Rating List -- Mar 15

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 22:09:52 03/15/99

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On March 15, 1999 at 17:40:38, Will Singleton wrote:

[...]

>u2600 Position of the Week
>
>The following position is from the game PostModernist - Amateur, played this
>week on fics or ICC.  PM makes an interesting move, Bf5, which appears
>pretty speculative, but seems to me to be the best move.  No program I have
>tested will play it.  Question -- is it the best move, and if so, how did
>PM come to play it?
>
>2r1k2r/1pq3p1/p1n1ppP1/3p3n/3P4/1QNBP2P/PP4Pb/R3BR1K w k -

Hossa likes e4 in this position:

 depth  value    time    nodes pv
     1   -576    0.01        8 1.b3xd5 e6xd5 2.c3xd5
   2/1     22    0.02       18 1.c3xd5 e6xd5 2.b3xd5
   6/1    132    0.03       36 1.a1c1
     2    110    0.04      262 1.a1c1 h5g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3
     3    110    0.09     1738 1.a1c1 h5g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3
     4    112    0.16     4413 1.a1c1 h5g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3 3.b3d1
  13/4    121    0.29     9162 1.c3e2 h2d6 2.a1c1
     5    108    0.90    35709 1.c3e2 f5 2.a1c1 h8h6 3.e1a5 c7xa5 4.h1xh2
   2/5    112    1.66    59746 1.a1c1 h5g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3 3.b3d1
     6    111    2.76   102676 1.a1c1 h5g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3 3.b3d1 g3d6 4.d1e2
   2/6    124    4.62   183323 1.c3e2 h2d6 2.a1c1 c7e7 3.e1c3
  17/6    143    7.95   326469 1.c3a4 h2d6 2.a4b6 c8d8 3.e1c3
   2/7    119   16.81   740449 1.c3e2 f5 2.e1d2 h5f6 3.a1c1 f6e4 4.d3xe4 f5xe4
   3/7    122   24.00  1038648 1.a1c1 h5g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3 3.c3a4 b5 4.a4c5
     8    124   54.50  2510315 1.a1c1 h2g3 2.e1d2 g3d6 3.c3e2 c7e7 4.e2c3
  26/8    126    2:07  5681599 1.e4 b5 2.e4xd5 c6xd4 3.b3b4 h2e5 4.d5xe6 d4xe6
     9    161    3:59 10643055 1.e4 b5 2.d3xb5 a6xb5 3.c3xb5 c7b8 4.e4xd5 c6e7
                               5.d5xe6 e7xg6
    10    168   10:52 29821490 1.e4 c6xd4 2.b3a4 d4c6 3.e4xd5 e6xd5 4.c3xd5 c7e5
                               5.a4b3 c6d8 6.a1d1


Next I forced the moves 1.Bf5 exf5 2.Nxd5. Hossa still likes white very much but
not as much as after e4:

 depth  value    time    nodes pv
     1   -756    0.00       31 1... c6xd4 2.d5xc7 h2xc7 3.e3xd4
   2/1   -636    0.00       68 1... c7g3 2.e1xg3 h2xg3 3.b3xb7
   4/1     -3    0.00      132 1... h5g3 2.e1xg3 c7xg3 3.b3xb7
     2     -3    0.01      395 1... h5g3 2.e1xg3 c7xg3 3.b3xb7
     3     -3    0.05     1865 1... h5g3 2.e1xg3 c7xg3 3.b3xb7
?    4   -161    0.31    12905 1... h5g3 2.e1xg3 c7xg3 3.b3xb7 O-O 4.b7xa6
? 17/4    -66    0.39    16307 1... c7d6 2.b3xb7 c8b8 3.b7f7 e8d8
     5    -66    0.58    24749 1... c7d6 2.b3xb7 c8b8 3.b7f7 e8d8
     6    -73    1.51    70166 1... c7d6 2.b3xb7 c8b8 3.b7f7 e8d8 4.e1c3
     7    -53   10.34   526832 1... c7d6 2.b3xb7 c8b8 3.b7f7 e8d8 4.f1xf5 b8xb2
                               5.a1c1
     8    -61   29.94  1537144 1... c7d6 2.d5b6 c8b8 3.b3f7 e8d8 4.b6c4 d6c7
                               5.f7d5 d8e8 6.d5e6 c6e7 7.f1xf5
     9    -96    1:14  4008259 1... c7d6 2.d5b6 c8b8 3.f1xf5 c6e7 4.e1b4 h5g3
                               5.h1xh2 g3f1 6.h2g1 d6h2 7.g1xf1 e7xf5
    10    -96    4:25 14549865 1... c7d6 2.d5b6 c8b8 3.f1xf5 c6e7 4.e1b4 h5g3
                               5.h1xh2 g3f1 6.h2g1 d6h2 7.g1xf1 e7xf5

Greetings,
Steffen.



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