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Subject: Re: Triple a-pawn and wrong bishop

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:36:29 03/28/00

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On March 28, 2000 at 05:14:56, blass uri wrote:

>On March 27, 2000 at 23:08:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 27, 2000 at 21:27:31, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On March 27, 2000 at 21:17:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>[snip]
>>>>This is caused by the bishop 'leaving'.  It found a way to sac the bishop,
>>>>and since you don't have even simple databases like kpk, it won't realize that
>>>>the resulting ending is a dead draw...
>>>>
>>>>I don't get that odd behavior at all here, with databases turned on...
>>>That's odd.  I have the 3&4 piece tablebase files installed, and crafty reports
>>>that it finds them...
>>>
>>>Here is the startup for that position from the log file:
>>>pondering enabled.
>>>EGTB cache memory = 6M bytes.
>>>hash table memory = 24M bytes.
>>>pawn hash table memory = 8M bytes.
>>>EGTB access enabled
>>>using tbpath=e:/crafty/release/tb,F:/KBP
>>>4 piece tablebase files found
>>>1302kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
>>>search nodes set to 100000000.
>>>PFGA: EPD record: 1
>>>end-game phase
>>>              clearing hash tables
>>>              time surplus   0.00  time limit 16:39 (16:39)
>>
>>
>>Watch the PV when the score is funny.  It probably finds a way to force black
>>to take the B, while keeping 2 or 3 pawns...  most likely 3 pawns...  which
>>means that if you don't have all the 5 piece endings, that will look like a
>>winning position for white...
>
>I looked at the pv posted by dan corbit and I only found sacrifices of pawns and
>not one sacrifice of a bishop.
>
>Uri


Look at the last PV.  Bishop is getting taken on c7.  Leaving a k+rookpawn vs
king.



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