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Subject: Re: Pawntest cleanup

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 02:21:54 10/13/01

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On October 12, 2001 at 13:01:35, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Four positions from a pawn test suite I am working on...
>The first three have clear, alternate checkmates.
>The last one, I have not been able to solve yet (maybe just really hard).
>
>[D]3k4/2p5/1pKp4/p2P4/2P5/P7/1P6/8 w - - bm c5; id "J&S45.10"; c0 "This one is
>questionable.";

analysis by Wilhelm
 ply   time   value    nodes N    nodes Q    PV
   1     0s    0.07          7          0    b2-b3
   2     0s    0.09         25          7    b2-b3 Kd8-c8
   3     0s    0.08         79         11    b2-b3 Kd8-c8 Kc6-b5
   4     0s    0.10        325         75    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8
   5     0s    0.10        645         84    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8 Kc6-b5
   6     0s    0.08       1619        208    b2-b3 Kd8-c8 b3-b4 Kc8-d8 Kc6-b5
a5xb4
   7     0s    0.08       3375        275    b2-b3 Kd8-c8 b3-b4 Kc8-d8 Kc6-b5
a5xb4 a3xb4
   8     0s    0.04       6831        516    b2-b3 Kd8-c8 b3-b4 Kc8-d8 b4xa5
b6xa5 a3-a4 Kd8-c8
   9     1s    0.07      12037        647    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8 c4-c5
d6xc5 b4xc5 b6xc5 Kc6xc5
  10     1s    0.05      23438       1213    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8 Kc6-b5
Kc8-d7 Kb5-a4 Kd7-e7 Ka4-b3 Ke7-f6
  11     2s    0.06      40739       1780    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8 c4-c5
d6xc5 b4xc5 b6xc5 Kc6xc5 Kc8-d7 Kc5-d4
  12     3s    0.04      71318       3179    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8 c4-c5
d6xc5 b4xc5 b6xc5 Kc6xc5 Kc8-d7 Kc5-d4 Kd7-d6
  13     4s    0.06     124227       4680    b2-b4 a5xb4 a3xb4 Kd8-c8 Kc6-b5
Kc8-d8 Kb5-a4 Kd8-e7 Ka4-b3 Ke7-f6 Kb3-c3 Kf6-e5 Kc3-d3
  14    11s    0.08     298967      12811    c4-c5 b6xc5 Kc6-b5 Kd8-d7 a3-a4
c5-c4 Kb5xa5 c7-c6 d5xc6+ Kd7xc6! Ka5-b4 d6-d5 a4-a5 Kc6-b7 Kb4-c5
  15    21s    0.08     612393      21205    c4-c5 b6xc5 Kc6-b5 Kd8-d7 a3-a4
c5-c4 Kb5xa5 c7-c6 d5xc6+ Kd7xc6! Ka5-b4 d6-d5 a4-a5 Kc6-b7 Kb4-c5
  16    38s    0.49    1127757      43197    c4-c5 b6xc5 Kc6-b5 Kd8-d7 a3-a4
c5-c4 Kb5xa5 c7-c6 d5xc6+ Kd7xc6! Ka5-b4 d6-d5 a4-a5 Kc6-d6 a5-a6 Kd6-c6 a6-a7

Wilhelm seems to prefer c5, but the score isn't convincing.

Rafael B. Andrist



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