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Subject: Re: pawn race position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:41:17 06/05/02

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On June 05, 2002 at 10:27:28, Jon Dart wrote:

>Recently Arasan had this position in a game:
>
>[D]8/8/1p5P/2b2P2/7K/8/1k6/8 b - -
>
>Crafty evaluates this statically as won for White, which is correct. Arasan's
>pawn race code doesn't currently cover this case, although it would evaluate it
>correctly if there was no Black bishop, and it sees pretty quickly in the search
>what the situation is. But in the game, it exchanged into this lost position, as
>it couldn't search deep enough to see the consequences.
>
>I'm wondering how well other programs evaluate this.

Phalanx:

8/8/1p5P/2b2P2/7K/8/1k6/8 b - -
    -> increment adds 1440 s to soft time limit
    -> soft time limit 3154.28 s
    -> hard time limit 41599.9 s
  6 ->   0:00.81   173651   0 turns
  7    -49    88   189729  Bc5-e7  ??
  7   -682   103   224383  Bc5-e7  Kh4-h5  Pb6-b5  Ph6-h7  Pb5-b4  Ph7-h8Q
                           Kb2-b3  Pf5-f6  Be7-d6
  7   -677   105   228351  Bc5-d4  !
  7   -644   127   276797  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Bd4-e3  Kg5-g6  Be3xh6  Kg6xh6
                           Pb6-b5  Kh6-g6  Kb2-c3
  7 ->   0:01.91   443242   1 turn
  8   -686   244   570068  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Ph6-h7
                           Pb4-b3  Pf6-f7  Kb2-c1  Pf7-f8Q
  8 ->   0:04.34  1001471   0 turns
  9   -709   557  1245299  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Pf6-f7
                           Pb4-b3  Pf7-f8Q  Kb2-c2  Qf8-c8  Bd4-c3  Ph6-h7
  9   -708   601  1352735  Bc5-e7  Kh4-h5  Pb6-b5  Ph6-h7  Be7-f6  Kh5-g6
  9   -703   722  1632825  Pb6-b5  !
  9   -686   804  1816644  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4
  9 ->   0:08.62  1941669   2 turns
 10   -725  1111  2460238  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Ph6-h7  Pb4-b3  Pf6-f7
                           Kb2-a2  Ph7-h8Q
 10   -720  1131  2503352  Bc5-e7  !
 10   -717  1210  2703788  Bc5-e7  Kh4-h5  Pb6-b5  Ph6-h7  Be7-f6  Kh5-g6
                           Bf6-c3  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Pf6-f7  Pb4-b3  Pf7-f8Q
                           Kb2-c1  Qf8-c8
 10   -712  1239  2754990  Bc5-d4  !
 10   -709  1319  2927649  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Pf6-f7
                           Pb4-b3  Pf7-f8Q  Kb2-c2  Qf8-c8  Kc2-b2
 10 ->   0:15.22  3379375   2 turns
 11   -721  1859  4140750  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Ph6-h7
                           Pb4-b3  Pf6-f7  Kb2-c2  Pf7-f8Q  Pb3-b2  Qf8-f5
                           Kc2-c3  Qf5-b1  Bd4-h8  Kg5-f5
 11 ->   0:31.48  7098596   0 turns
 12   -723  3825  8598163  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Pf6-f7
                           Pb4-b3
 12   -722  4850 10566022  Pb6-b5  Ph6-h7  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb5-b4  Pf5-f6
 12 ->   0:54.19 11751422   1 turn
 13   -742  7527 15985725  Pb6-b5  Ph6-h7  Bc5-d4  Kh4-g5  Pb5-b4  Pf5-f6
                           Pb4-b3  Ph7-h8Q  Kb2-c2  Qh8-c8  Kc2-d2  Qc8-c4
                           Bd4-e3  Kg5-g6  Pb3-b2  Qc4-b3  Be3-d4
 13 ->   1:33.25 19828097   0 turns
 14   -785 17145 36144016  Pb6-b5  Pf5-f6  Pb5-b4  Ph6-h7  Pb4-b3  Ph7-h8Q
                           Bc5-d4  Qh8-d8  Bd4xf6  Qd8xf6  Kb2-c2  Qf6-c6
                           Kc2-b1  Qc6-e4  Kb1-b2
 14 ->   3:25.94 43487640   0 turns



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