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Subject: Re: u2600 - rook sac from Lambchop-Grok

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 06:27:13 04/28/99

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On April 27, 1999 at 12:28:41, Peter Kappler wrote:

>I noticed Will didn't post a position this week, so I'll share one from a game
>Grok played as Black against Lambchop a couple of weeks ago on ICC.
>
>r3r2k/p1bb1pp1/qp5p/3pP3/PBp2P1Q/4P1RP/2B3P1/R5K1 w - - bm Rxg7;
>
>How long does it take your program to:
>a) find Rxg7
>b) realize Rxg7 is winning
>
>This is probably easy for programs with the single-reply extension.
>
>Lambchop found this in a blitz game - I think Peter McKenzie reported that it
>needed 6 seconds to see the move on his P133, and somewhere around 30-40 seconds
>to see the win.  (Correct me if I'm remembering this wrong, Peter)

Nice position!!

As you can see below Hossa needs only 5 nodes to see this move *just kidding*
:-)

Unfortunately Hossa takes a long time compared to the other progs to see Rxg7
(it would have been slightly faster if I didnt listen to the rage against the
machine MP3 files at the same time ;-) :

 depth  score    time    nodes pv
     1  -5.42    0.02        5 1.g3xg7 h8xg7
   3/1  -1.35    0.04       44 1.e4
  -->1  -1.35    0.19       85 1.e4
     2  -1.70    0.21      217 1.e4 d4
   7/2  -1.56    0.25      476 1.h4h5 d7e6
  -->2  -1.56    0.40      815 1.h4h5 d7e6
     3  -1.21    0.44     1413 1.h4h5 d7e6 2.e4
  -->3  -1.21    0.51     2278 1.h4h5 d7e6 2.e4
     4  -1.45    0.58     4295 1.h4h5 d7e6 2.a1d1 a8c8
  20/4  -1.43    0.87    13397 1.b4c3 d7e6 2.e4 a8c8
  -->4  -1.43    1.11    19557 1.b4c3 d7e6 2.e4 a8c8
     5  -1.27    1.31    27282 1.b4c3 d7e6 2.e4 a8c8 3.h4h5
  -->5  -1.27    1.78    43043 1.b4c3 d7e6 2.e4 a8c8 3.h4h5
     6  -1.28    2.51    78337 1.b4c3 d7e6 2.h4h5 e8e7 3.e4 a8g8
!    6  -0.20    4.99   215372 1.b4e7 c7d8 2.e7f6 d8xf6 3.e5xf6 e8e6
                               4.f6xg7 h8g8
! -->6  -0.20    5.53   246490 1.b4e7 c7d8 2.e7f6 d8xf6 3.e5xf6 e8e6
                               4.f6xg7 h8g8
     7  -0.04    6.47   300077 1.b4e7 c7d8 2.e7f6 d8xf6 3.e5xf6 e8e6
                               4.f6xg7 h8g8 5.h4h5
  -->7  -0.04    8.34   468539 1.b4e7 c7d8 2.e7f6 d8xf6 3.e5xf6 e8e6
                               4.f6xg7 h8g8 5.h4h5
! -->8  -0.04   23.20  1390056
!    9   2.70    1:03  3700981 1.b4e7 c7xe5 2.f4xe5 e8xe7 3.h4xe7 d7e6
                               4.a1f1 a8g8 5.g3f3 a6a5 6.f3xf7 e6xf7
                               7.f1xf7
! -->9   2.70    1:46  6617246 1.b4e7 c7xe5 2.f4xe5 e8xe7 3.h4xe7 d7e6
                               4.a1f1 a8g8 5.g3f3 a6a5 6.f3xf7 e6xf7
                               7.f1xf7
!   10   3.19    2:55 10125680 1.b4e7 c7xe5 2.f4xe5 e8xe7 3.h4xe7 d7e6
                               4.c2g6 a6a5 5.g6xf7 a5c3 6.a1f1 c3xe5
!23/10   7.06    5:44 19658676 1.g3xg7 h8xg7 2.h4f6 g7g8 3.f6xh6 f5
                               4.e5xf6 e8e7 5.f6xe7 d7f5 6.h6g5 g8h8
                               7.c2xf5
!-->10   7.06    6:05 21212548 1.g3xg7 h8xg7 2.h4f6 g7g8 3.f6xh6 f5
                               4.e5xf6 e8e7 5.f6xe7 d7f5 6.h6g5 g8h8
                               7.c2xf5


Best wishes,
Steffen.



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