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Subject: Re: Easy pawn ending for computers ?!

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 12:54:23 11/18/01

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On November 18, 2001 at 10:03:15, piet de hoop wrote:

>The next position occured in Diep versus Rebel Century 4 round 6 of the Dutch
>Open Computer Chess 2001
>
>[D] 8/6p1/3k3p/8/3K4/7P/8/8 b - - 0 43
>
>The result was a draw, but for some computerprograms I tried, the evaluation was
>from -1 to -3.4 pawn. (Fritz 6.0, Crafty,Yace)
>
>I expect that programs equipped with the right pawntable base have no problem
>with this position, but i expected that programs without these tablebase while
>calculating over 30 plys or more should give the right evalution?
>
>Or do i miss something?
>
>Piet

I think you mis something important here
Todays decent chessprograms use table bases so the chance that such a program
does not comeup with the right answer here is zero.



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