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Subject: Re: Hard pawn endgame?

Author: Kolss

Date: 07:12:25 11/17/05

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On November 17, 2005 at 08:59:39, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>This pawn endgame has only 7 pieces.
>Yace shines bright in this type of position.
>Gambitfruit finds the right move early, but fails to give a high score.
>Running it for 15 min on a AMD XP 1800 MHz let it reach a depth of 31,
>but the score remains at 1.76.
>What's the reason?
>Kind regards
>Bernhard
>
>[D]8/4k1p1/8/4KPp1/6P1/7P/8/8 w - - 0 1
>

According to Ikarus, both Kd4 and Ke4 are mate in (at most) 37, so I am not sure
if it is a good test position in terms of finding the correct move... (Of
course, if you want to see how long a program needs to display a really good
score, it is fine.)

Best regards - Munjong.



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