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Subject: Re: A pretty move!

Author: William Bryant

Date: 12:08:50 05/13/99

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On May 13, 1999 at 00:40:57, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On May 12, 1999 at 22:30:42, Paulo Soares wrote:
>
>>[Event "WC 98 III"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1998.09.26"]
>>[Round "9"]
>>[White "Chess Tiger 11.5"]
>>[Black "Fritz 5.01"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ECO "C43"]
>>[WhiteElo "2645"]
>>[BlackElo "2575"]
>>[Annotator "Shep"]
>>[PlyCount "93"]
>>
>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Nd7 6. Nxd7 Bxd7 7. O-O Bd6
>>8. c4 c6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. cxd5 Nxc3 11. bxc3 cxd5 12. Qh5 g6 13. Qxd5 Qc7
>>14. Bh6 Rfe8 15. Qf3 Bxh2+ 16. Kh1 Bd6 17. Qf6 Bf8 18. Bxf8 Rxf8 19. c4 Rae8
>>20. Rfe1 Qa5 21. Red1 Ba4 22. Rdc1 Qd2 23. Qf3 b6 24. Kg1 Rd8 25. d5 Rfe8 26.
>>Qg3 Rd7 27. Bf1 Bc2 28. a4 Rde7 29. d6 Rb7 30. a5 bxa5 31. c5 Rb3 32. Qg4 Rc3
>>33. Bb5 Re6 34. Rd1 Bxd1 35. Qxd1 Rc2 36. Qxd2 Rxd2 37. d7 Re5 38. c6 Rc5
>>39. Rxa5 Kg7 40. Ra6 Rd1+ 41. Kh2 Rdd5 42. f4 g5 43. fxg5 Rd4 44. Ba4 Rd2
>>45. Kg3 Rxg5+ 46. Kf4 Rgxg2 47. Bb5 1-0
>>
>>Move 34. Rd1!
>>
>>6k1/p4p1p/3Pr1p1/pBP5/6Q1/2r5/2bq1PP1/R1R3K1 w - - 1 0
>>
>>Test whith Hiarcs7.01 on a , PII-300, HT=64Mb:
>>
>>    Variation  Depth   Time(sec)    Evaluation
>>	1        8        290        -72(-0.56)
>>	3        7        107!        33(+0.25)
>>
>>
>>In how much time other programs play Rd1?
>
>Modified Crafty 16.6 will play it in 4 seconds on PII-300.  Here's output:
>
>4     4.14     ++   34. Rd1!!
>4     5.61   0.02   34. Rd1 Bxd1 35. Qxd1 Rc2 36. Qxd2
>                    Rxd2 37. Rxa5 Re1+ 38. Kh2 h6
>4->   5.77   0.02   34. Rd1 Bxd1 35. Qxd1 Rc2 36. Qxd2
>                    Rxd2 37. Rxa5 Re1+ 38. Kh2 h6
>
>Previous best move (Bc7) failed low to about -1.3 on ply 4.  It never switches
>from Rd1 after this, and the score goes up in each iteration.
>
>Jeremiah

No where near Crafty in strength, but Screamer v1.0 build 23 finds it at 1:07
(1 minute and 7 seconds).

Welcome to Screamer (Beta) 1.00  Build 23
Current Hash Table Size: 16384 K bytes
Debug Control On
PVS Search

New Game ...
Move 1 W>>

New Board Position
6k1/p4p1p/3Pr1p1/pBP5/6Q1/2r5/2bq1PP1/R1R3K1 w - - 1 0; Bm Rd1
Move 1 W>>
The Current Search Time: 300 seconds
PLY     NODES     TIME   SCORE  PV
____________________________________________
  5     98013     0:02   -0.87  d7 Rxc5 Qf3 Be4 Qe3
  6    277679     0:07   -0.84  d7 Rxc5 Qf3 Be4 Qe3 Rxc1+ Rxc1
  7   2032805     0:53   -0.14  d7 Re5 Qh4 g5 Qh2 Rcxc5 Rxc2 Rxc2 d8=Q+ Qxd8
Qxe5
  7   2623384     1:07   -0.12  Rd1 Bxd1 Qxd1 Qg5 d7 Qd8 c6
  8   3882048     1:35   -0.33  Rd1 Bxd1 Qxd1 Qg5 d7 Qd8 c6 a6
  9  10749700     4:16   -0.40  Rd1 Bxd1 Qxd1 Rc2 Qxd2 Rxd2 Rxa5 Re5 Rxa7 Rxc5
     ----- Search Stopped -----
     Total Search Time: 4:21
     Move: Rd1

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com




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