Woke up early this morning and !!!

[modolief]

I only recently discovered nTCEC, and happened to be watching this game last night as it unfolded. Wow, was really stunned by the big eval difference. And enjoyed trying to divine what was going on. What an excellent format and thanks so much for the people putting this together.

[zullil]

after some analysis i think that 41...Rf7 draws....best i found is:
[d]8/3r3k/p2p2pp/P1nRP3/1pP1P2q/1P6/Q3RP1P/6K1 b - - 0 41

41... Rf7 42. Qd2 Qg4+ 43. Kf1 Qh3+ 44. Ke1 Qg2 45. Kd1 Nxe4
46. Rxe4 Qxe4 47. exd6 Qb1+ 48. Qc1 Qxb3+ 49. Ke1 Qa4 50. Qd1 b3 51. d7 Qb4+ 52. Qd2 Re7+ 53. Kf1 Qxc4+ 54. Qd3 Qxd3+ 55. Rxd3 b2 56. Rd1 b1=Q 57. Rxb1 Rxd7 58. Rb6 Ra7 =

Stockfish agrees that Rf7 seems best:

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info depth 48 seldepth 91 score cp -30 nodes 208312581138 nps 11270250 time 18483403 multipv 1 pv d7f7 a2d2 h4g4 g1f1 g4h3 f1e1 h3g4 e1d1 f7f2 d5d6 f2f3 e5e6 f3c3 d6d7 c5d7 d2d7 h7g8 d7e8 g8g7 e8e7 g7h8 e7d8 h8h7 d8e7 h7h8

[modolief]

... and I should add that I'm very pleased to see that the CPU hours I've donated to Stockfish testing have gone to good use!

[Martin Thoresen]

It is truly a stunning game.

[Carlos Ylich]

Hello Martin,

Much of this was due to his great work. Thank you and congratulations.
Congratulations to Stockfish team. Great work!

[bupalo]

houdini destroyed for the second time

[M ANSARI]

Yes another great game by SF. Not easy to beat Houdini from both sides of the board. It seems that SF is just out searching Houdini and is going deeper. But to be fair these are only a few games and anything can happen in a few games. One thing is certain though, and that is SF has gained an enormous amount of ELO's.

[Eelco de Groot]

At times the play from Houdini seems a bit strange. I thought that the last game I saw too. There could be some bug, even if Houdini 9601 is much stronger in the two minute games the bug could become visible only at larger depths, but I really don't know much about Houdini. It is using Syzygy bases but without those Stockfish saw it self with a much higher score and the 6 man Stockfishes in the chat reported mate in 53 already. Houdini was still at -2 or something. Even if part of that would be trying to fool the rules for adjudication from TCEC, it stayed low for so long that it seemed buggy. But it is just an impression I had, maybe it's nothing.