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NATIONAL12
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Re: houdini

Post by NATIONAL12 »

Roger Brown wrote:Hello Paul,

If this is a live correspondence game should you be doing this?

It seems a bit dubious to ask for assistance in analysing positions on a forum. Kind of pointless too, considering the machines one has access to nowadays...

Later.
i dont need any help,it was a line which my opponent did not play which i thought was very strong. :)
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Re: houdini

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NATIONAL12 wrote:
Roger Brown wrote:Hello Paul,

If this is a live correspondence game should you be doing this?

It seems a bit dubious to ask for assistance in analysing positions on a forum. Kind of pointless too, considering the machines one has access to nowadays...

Later.
i dont need any help,it was a line which my opponent did not play which i thought was very strong. :)
to clarify,it was an overnight run on a 12 core(not threads) overclocked computer and very very difficult to find even when you go directly to the f4 move.it was 3 moves earlier when i found it.evals start at 0.00 and just continue to rise and rise,not saying game was lost but it had me sweating due to my complacent play. :) learned a big lesson here and am not afraid to tell a story against myself.
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Re: houdini

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although i guess nobody is interested, the game ended in a draw.i spent a lot of time defending this game and am pleased i found a drawn endgame position.as you all know to my expense i was very worried about position.

http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... 21833;pg=1

thanks to all that posted on this thread.

Paul.
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Re: houdini

Post by Eelco de Groot »

Congratulations with the draw :)! Maybe it's a pity your opponent chose another variation than you anticipated, for spectacle I mean, but then you would rather have switched colours I suppose. 31. Ng3 maybe was not best after all if the game was an indication; the Knight went f3 - h2 - f1 - g3 - f1 - e3 -c4 - a5 - b3 maybe it lost some time there. But you mentioned in the thread later that Nh2 was a strong move that even Nelson Hernandez had not made green in his database, so maybe this was all planned? Tried to format the game as pgn:

[Event "WBCCC 2011"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.06.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ramil Germanes"]
[Black "Paul Watson"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C92"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventType "corr"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O
9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4
h6 13.d5 Nb8 14.c4 bxc4 15.Nxc4 c6
16.dxc6 Bxc6 17.Be3 Bxe4 18.Bb6 Qd7
19.Rxe4 Nxe4 20.Qd5 Qc6 21.Ncxe5
Qxd5 22.Bxd5 dxe5 23.Bxa8 Nf6 24.Be3
Nbd7 25.Bb7 e4 26.Nh2 a5 27.Rd1 Nc5
28.Bc6 Rc8 29.Bb5 Nb3 30.Nf1 Bb4
31.Ng3 Kh7 32.Bf4 Rc5 33.h4 g6 34.Nf1
g5 35.hxg5 hxg5 36.Be3 Rc2 37.Bxg5
Kg6 38.Bf4 Nc5 39.b3 Nxb3 40.Ne3 Rc8
41.Nc4 Rc5 42.Rb1 Rf5 43.Be3 Nc5
44.Bc6 Rh5 45.Bd4 Ne6 46.Bxf6 Kxf6
47.Bxe4 Rh4 48.Bd3 Nc5 49.Bf1 Nxa4
50.Ra1 Nc5 51.Nxa5 Ne4 52.Nb3 1/2-1/2

[D]8/5p2/5k2/8/1b2n2r/1N6/5PP1/R4BK1 b - -
Eelco
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
-- Brian W. Kernighan