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Subject: Re: 1. Rg3! and Fritz 9

Author: John Merlino

Date: 20:28:18 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 21:18:21, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>If you take a look at this position you can see that Fritz 9 needs a decent
>chunk of time to find the simple Rg3! It spends a lot of time on the simple pawn
>to g4 and only after about 80 seconds (FX-53) switches to Rg3, eventually
>announcing a mate in 23:
>
>[D] r6r/p2Q2pp/6k1/2P1pp2/1Pb5/R7/6PP/6K1 w - - 0 29

It looks like lots of different moves win here, but CM9_R1 on a P4-2.4 finally
settles on Rg3 after seventeen seconds:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/5	4.36	50127		29.g4 Rhf8 30.gxf5+ Kf6 31.Qd6+
					Kf7 32.Rc3 Ba2 33.Qxe5
0:00	1/6	3.70	127327		29.g4 Rhf8 30.gxf5+ Kf6 31.Qd6+
					Kf7 32.Rc3 Ba2 33.Qxe5 Rad8
0:01	1/6	3.75	194706		29.Rg3+ Kf6 30.Qxg7+ Ke6 31.Qh6+
					Kd5 32.Qd6+ Ke4 33.Qc6+ Kd4 34.Qd7+
					Ke4 35.Rc3 Bd5 36.c6
0:01	1/6	4.56	251131		29.Rc3 Rad8 30.Qc6+ Kg5 31.Rxc4
					Rd1+ 32.Kf2 e4 33.Qe6 Rd2+ 34.Kf1
0:01	1/7	4.55	298759		29.Rc3 Rad8 30.Qc6+ Kg5 31.Rxc4
					Rd1+ 32.Kf2 Rd2+ 33.Ke3 Rhd8 34.h4+
					Kh5 35.Qf3+ Kg6
0:04	1/8	4.81	897936		29.Rc3 Rad8 30.Qc6+ Kf7 31.Qb7+
					Ke6 32.Rxc4 Rd7 33.Qc6+ Ke7 34.Qf3
					Rf8
0:05	1/8	5.33	1252992		29.Rg3+ Kf6 30.Qxg7+ Ke6 31.Qh6+
					Kd5 32.Qd2+ Kc6 33.Qd6+ Kb5 34.Ra3
					Be2 35.Qa6+ Kxb4 36.Qa5+ Kc4 37.c6
					Rae8 38.Rc3+ Kd4 39.Qc5+ Ke4 40.Qe3+
					Kd5 41.Qxe2
0:07	1/8	5.67	1639563		29.g4 Rhf8 30.gxf5+ Kf6 31.Qc6+
					Kxf5 32.Qf3+ Kg5 33.h4+ Kxh4 34.Qe4+
					Kg5 35.Qxe5+ Kh4 36.Qe4+ Kg5 37.Qxc4
0:12	1/9	5.69	2822144		29.g4 Rhf8 30.gxf5+ Kf6 31.Qc6+
					Kxf5 32.Re3 Ba2 33.Qe4+ Ke6 34.Ra3
					Bb3 35.Qc6+ Kf5 36.Rxb3
0:17	1/9	5.87	4090302		29.Rg3+ Kf6 30.Qxg7+ Ke6 31.Qh6+
					Kd5 32.Qd2+ Kc6 33.Qd6+ Kb5 34.c6
					Ka4 35.Qc5 a5 36.Qxc4 axb4 37.Qc2+
					Kb5 38.Qxf5 Kxc6 39.Qxe5
0:38	1/10	7.17	9261758		29.Rg3+ Kf6 30.Qxg7+ Ke6 31.Qh6+
					Kd5 32.Qd2+ Kc6 33.Qd6+ Kb5 34.Ra3
					Kxb4 35.c6+ Kb5 36.Qxe5+ Kb6 37.Qd4+
					Kc7 38.Qf4+ Kb6 39.Qxc4 a5 40.c7
1:15	1/11	7.79	18860733	29.Rg3+ Kf6 30.Qxg7+ Ke6 31.Qh6+
					Kd5 32.Qd2+ Kc6 33.Qd6+ Kb5 34.Ra3
					Kxb4 35.c6+ Kb5 36.Qxe5+ Kb6 37.Qd4+
					Kc7 38.Qf4+ Kxc6 39.Qxc4+ Kd6 40.Ra6+
					Ke7 41.Qe6+ Kf8 42.Qxf5+ Kg8

And Rg3 appears to be a Mate in 16, after a bit of poking around....

jm



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