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Subject: Re: Position from "Fire On Board:Shirov´s Best Games"

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 19:54:47 02/09/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 18:44:27, James Robertson wrote:

>On February 08, 2000 at 17:27:09, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>
>>Shirov-Nikolenko,USSR Ch. 1991[analysis]
>>[D]r3r3/1b2nkpp/7B/p4p2/1p1PN3/6Q1/1P4PK/R4q2 b - -
>>Shirov writes:"White is a rook down and all of his pieces are hanging,but I
>>still believed his chances were better until FRITZ4 found the astonishing
>>25...Qf4!!".    Enjoy,JAFM [from the book review in www.smartchess.com]
>
>
>I don't think Qf4 is that amazing. Insomniac, which is weak in king attack
>tactics, finds Qf4 in 17 seconds on my P233 with a 4MB hash table. Programs that
>specialize in this kind of attack are probably even faster. Can anyone provide
>times for LG, AnMon, LambChop, Fritz?

LambChop gets it in a similar time, but fewer ply - 7 ply required.

>
>James
>
>Position #1: Shirov - Nikolenko
>Solved
>Depth  Score     Time     Nodes  PV
> 1     1113        0          67 Qxa1 Qxg7+
> 2     1054        0         173 Qxa1 Qxg7+ Ke6
> 3      940      220        3670 Qxa1 Qxg7+ Ke6 Nc5+ Kd5 Nxb7 Qxb2
> 4      911      220        5368 Qxa1 Qxg7+ Ke6 Qe5+ Kd7 Nf6+ Kc6 Nxe8 Rxe8
> 5      605      280        9689 Qxa1 Qxg7+ Ke6 Qe5+ Kd7 Nf6+ Kc8 Nxe8 Qxb2 Qxe7
>Qxg2+
> 6      605      440       25665 Qxa1 Qxg7+ Ke6 Qe5+ Kd7 Nf6+ Kc8 Nxe8 Qxb2 Qxe7
>Qxg2+
> 7      533     1100       88755 Qxa1 Qxg7+ Ke6 Qe5+ Kd7 Nf6+ Kd8 Qd6+ Kc8 Qd7+
>Kb8 Qxe8+ Nc8
> 8      332     3350      266321 Qxa1 Ng5+ Kg8 Qe5 Qh1+ Kxh1 Bxg2+ Kxg2 gxh6 Ne6
> 9>      31    17800     1521622 Qf4 Bxf4 Bxe4 Be5 g6 Qg5 Nd5 b3 Kg8
> 9       31    22960     1984864 Qf4 Bxf4 Bxe4 Be5 g6 Qg5 Nd5 b3 Kg8
>10       22    39220     3387930 Qf4 Bxf4 Bxe4 Be5 g6 Qg5 Kg8 b3 Nc6 Qf4
>11       27    72180     6313588 Qf4 Bxf4 Bxe4 Bc7 a4 Be5 g6 Rxa4 Bxg2 Qb3+ Bd5
>Qxb4
>Extensions: 339789 check, 239 mate, 15497 recapture.

I notice your check extension percentage is pretty low, are you limiting it
heavily?

cheers,
Peter



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