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Subject: Re: ICC Tournament, LambChop vs Nimzo (position)

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 21:01:10 01/29/00

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On January 29, 2000 at 22:49:51, James Robertson wrote:

>On January 29, 2000 at 22:04:03, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>On the 1st position. Arasan's score goes negative at ply 11,
>>but not by much. I'm not sure if there is a defense there
>>or maybe all the checks and extensions are just pushing the
>>pain off the horizon (probably the latter).
>
>On my P233 with a 4MB hash table, Insomniac's score drops to 0 after 30 seconds.
>I didn't wait to see how long it would take to go negative.
>
>>
>>On the 2nd position, it likes Rxg7+ but only gives a score of +0.88.
>>Something is wacky if you were getting +2.
>
>I agree. Insomniac prefers Rxb1. The score is nowhere near even one pawn from
>the eigth ply on. Perhaps these are positions where Vincent's beloved checks in
>qsearch would help? :)
>
>Depth  Score     Time     Nodes  PV
> 1       51        0          50 Rxb1 Rxb1
> 2       51       50         270 Rxb1 Rxb1
> 3       61       50         743 Rxb1 Rxb1 f4
> 4       62       50        4279 Rxb1 Rxb1 f4 Be4
> 5>      92      160       11376 Rxg7+
> 5      128      220       16249 Rxg7+ Kb6 Rb7+ Ka5 b6+ Ka4 a7 Bg3+ Kxg3
> 6      138     1040       95989 Rxg7+ Bd7 Rgxd7+ Ka8 Rd8+ Bb8 R5d7 Rxb5 Bxb5
>Qxb5
> 7      119     1590      147646 Rxg7+ Bd7 Rgxd7+ Ka8 Rd8+ Bb8 R5d7 Qh1 a7 Qh2+
>Ke1
> 8       51     8340      823729 Rxg7+ Kb6 Rb7+ Ka5 Rxe5 Qh1 Rxf5 Qh2+ Ke3 Qg1+
>Kd2 Qd4+ Bd3 Rb2+ Kc1 Qxd3 Kxb2 Qxf5
> 9       44    13510     1357694 Rxg7+ Kb6 Rb7+ Ka5 b6+ Ka4 Rxe5 Bc8 Re8 Bxb7
>axb7 Rxb6 Ra8+ Kb3 b8=Q Rxb8 Rxb8+

My program only completed 9ply in this positon during the tournament.  I guess
it saw this 9ply line of yours and realised that black is busted.

>10       19    29600     3007365 Rxg7+ Kb6 Rb7+ Ka5 b6+ Ka4 Rxe5 Qh1 Rxf5 Qh2+
>Ke1 Qg1+ Kd2 Qd4+ Bd3 Rb2+ Kc1 Qc3+ Kd1 Qxd3+
>11>      27   101440     9695956 Rxb1 Rxb1 f4 Be6 Rd8 Bxf4 Re8 Bxh3 Re7+ Kb6
>Rb7+ Kc5 Rxg7
>11       27   111110    10848841 Rxb1 Rxb1 f4 Be6 Rd8 Bxf4 Re8 Bxh3 Re7+ Kb6
>Rb7+ Kc5 Rxg7
>Extensions: 695609 check, 1421 mate, 25474 recapture.

impressive stuff

>
>James



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