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Subject: Re: WAC 230 ..solved by

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 12:39:04 07/07/02

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Mike,

Is WAC 230 correct?  If I remember corretly there was a discussion here a few
months back that said that Rb4 was not such a forced win e.g.

http://www.it.ro/ccc_search/ccc.php?art_id=163138

Regards,

Steve


>Through my years of testing WAC positions, WAC 230 has been the toughest with my
>modified crafty's - my crafty's have never solved it (in a reasonable time)...
>my latest version of modified crafty (so far unrelease) solves is < 1 minute on
>a Dual P4 1.7Ghz
>
>[D] 2b5/1r6/2kBp1p1/p2pP1P1/2pP4/1pP3K1/1R3P2/8 b - -
>
>
>Black(1): go
>end-game phase
>              clearing hash tables
>              time surplus   0.00  time limit 10:00 (10:00)
>         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
>               10     0.46   1.64   1. ... Rh7 2. Kf4 Rh3 3. f3 Rh1 4.
>                                    Ke3 Re1+ 5. Kd2 Rg1 6. Be7 Rg2+ 7.
>                                    Kc1
>               10->   0.46   1.64   1. ... Rh7 2. Kf4 Rh3 3. f3 Rh1 4.
>                                    Ke3 Re1+ 5. Kd2 Rg1 6. Be7 Rg2+ 7.
>                                    Kc1
>               11     1.04   1.69   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bd7 3. f3 Rh5 4.
>                                    Be7 Be8 5. Rb2 Kd7 6. Bf6 a4
>               11->   1.04   1.69   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bd7 3. f3 Rh5 4.
>                                    Be7 Be8 5. Rb2 Kd7 6. Bf6 a4
>               12     1.63   1.66   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 a4 3. Ba3 Bb7 4.
>                                    Rb2 Rh1 5. Bf8 Rc1 6. Bb4 Rg1+ 7. Kf4
>                                    Rg2 <HT>
>               12->   1.63   1.66   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 a4 3. Ba3 Bb7 4.
>                                    Rb2 Rh1 5. Bf8 Rc1 6. Bb4 Rg1+ 7. Kf4
>                                    Rg2 <HT>
>               13     2.99   1.65   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bb7 3. f3 Rf7 4.
>                                    Ra1 Ba6 5. Rb1 a4 6. Rb2 Rf5 7. Kg4
>                                    Kd7 <HT>
>               13->   3.24   1.65   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bb7 3. f3 Rf7 4.
>                                    Ra1 Ba6 5. Rb1 a4 6. Rb2 Rf5 7. Kg4
>                                    Kd7 <HT>
>               14     4.04   1.67   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bb7 3. f3 a4 4. Ba3
>                                    Kd7 5. Rb2 Rh1 6. Rh2 Ra1 7. Bb2 Rf1
>                                    8. Kf4
>               14->   4.08   1.67   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bb7 3. f3 a4 4. Ba3
>                                    Kd7 5. Rb2 Rh1 6. Rh2 Ra1 7. Bb2 Rf1
>                                    8. Kf4
>               15     9.99   1.68   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Rh5 3. Kg4 a4 4.
>                                    Ba3 Kd7 5. Kf4 Bb7 6. f3 Ba6 7. Rb2
>                                    <HT>
>               15->  11.16   1.68   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Rh5 3. Kg4 a4 4.
>                                    Ba3 Kd7 5. Kf4 Bb7 6. f3 Ba6 7. Rb2
>                                    <HT>
>               16    20.80   1.77   1. ... Rh7 2. Rb1 Bb7 3. Ra1 Ba6 4.
>                                    Ba3 a4 5. Bb2 Bb5 6. f3 Kd7 7. Rb1
>                                    Rh5 8. Kf4 <HT>
>               16    40.27   2.14   1. ... Rb4 2. cxb4 a4 3. b5+ Kxb5 4.
>                                    Ba3 c3 5. Rb1 Kc4 6. Rc1 Kxd4 7. f4
>                                    Bd7 8. Bb4 c2 9. Ba3 Kc3 10. f5
>         (2)   16->  40.27   2.14   1. ... Rb4 2. cxb4 a4 3. b5+ Kxb5 4.
>                                    Ba3 c3 5. Rb1 Kc4 6. Rc1 Kxd4 7. f4
>                                    Bd7 8. Bb4 c2 9. Ba3 Kc3 10. f5
>               17     1:02     ++   1. ... Rb4!!
>               17     1:22   2.58   1. ... Rb4 2. cxb4 a4 3. b5+ Kxb5 4.
>                                    Ba3 c3 5. Rb1 Kc4 6. Rc1 Kxd4 7. f4
>                                    Kd3 8. Rd1+ Kc2 9. Rh1 b2 10. f5 d4
>                                    11. fxe6
>               17->   1:23   2.58   1. ... Rb4 2. cxb4 a4 3. b5+ Kxb5 4.
>                                    Ba3 c3 5. Rb1 Kc4 6. Rc1 Kxd4 7. f4
>                                    Kd3 8. Rd1+ Kc2 9. Rh1 b2 10. f5 d4
>                                    11. fxe6
>              time=1:23  cpu=197%  mat=1  n=106708755  fh=89%  nps=1285028
>              ext-> checks=3362292 recaps=55887 pawns=957944 1rep=74596
>thrt:1669
>              predicted=0  nodes=106708755  evals=19420883
>              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
>              SMP->  split=1620  stop=242  data=10/64  cpu=2:43  elap=1:23



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