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Subject: Re: New Tough Endgame Test Suite

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 02:16:22 05/28/00

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On May 27, 2000 at 19:04:35, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>On May 27, 2000 at 15:12:29, Pete Galati wrote:
>
><snip>
>>[D]5k2/p1p4R/1pr5/3p1pP1/P2P1P2/2P2K2/8/8 w
>
>This position caught my eye because its from a famous Capablanca game.  The key
>move is Kg3!
>
>Out of curiosity i tried it on LambChop, and of course Chop initially prefered
>Rd7, but at depth 14 it switched to Kg3 with a score of about +0.4.  It took
>about 15min on Pentium 133.
>
>How do other programs do on this position?
>
>cheers,
>Peter

Tiger finds Kg3 in 2 seconds with an evaluation that keeps climbing at every
ply. F6a takes 69 seconds, Century 1.2 186 seconds, Shredder 4 291 seconds and
CM6K sticks to Rd7 for more than 5 minutes.

Enrique


5k2/p1p4R/1pr5/3p1pP1/P2P1P2/2P2K2/8/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 6a, P600E, 184MB hash:

1.Rxc7--
  -+  (-1.84)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:00
1.Rxc7-- Rxc7
  -+  (-3.25)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
1.c4!
  -+  (-2.28)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
1.c4! Rxc4
  ²  (0.41)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
1.Rh8+!
  ²  (0.66)   Depth: 1/4   00:00:00
1.Rh8+! Kg7
  ±  (0.94)   Depth: 1/4   00:00:00
1.Rh8+--
  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 2/7   00:00:00
1.Rh8+-- Kg7 2.Re8 Rxc3+ 3.Ke2
  =  (-0.06)   Depth: 2/7   00:00:00
1.c4!
  ²  (0.41)   Depth: 2/7   00:00:00
1.c4--
  =  (0.06)   Depth: 3/6   00:00:00
1.c4--
  =  (0.06)   Depth: 3/9   00:00:00
1.g6!
  =  (0.09)   Depth: 3/9   00:00:00
1.g6! Rxg6
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 3/9   00:00:00
1.Ke2!
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 3/9   00:00:00
1.Ke2! Rxc3
  ²  (0.34)   Depth: 3/9   00:00:00
1.Ke2 Rxc3 2.Kd2
  ²  (0.34)   Depth: 4/9   00:00:00  1kN
1.Rd7!
  ²  (0.38)   Depth: 4/12   00:00:00  2kN
1.Rd7! Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 Rc4
  ²  (0.63)   Depth: 4/13   00:00:00  2kN
1.Rd7--
  ²  (0.31)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00  3kN
1.Rd7-- Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 Rc2+ 3.Kd3 Rf2 4.Ke3
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00  4kN
1.Ke2!
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00  4kN
1.Ke2! Rxc3
  ²  (0.34)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00  5kN
1.Ke2 Rxc3 2.g6 Rc6 3.Rf7+ Ke8 4.Rxf5 Rxg6 5.Rxd5
  =  (0.16)   Depth: 6/16   00:00:00  9kN
1.Rd7!
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 6/18   00:00:00  14kN
1.Rd7! Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c5 3.dxc5 Rxc5 4.Rxa7 d4
  ²  (0.63)   Depth: 6/18   00:00:00  18kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 Rc4 3.Rxd5 c6 4.Rxf5+ Kg7 5.Kd3 Rxa4
  ²  (0.59)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00  28kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c5 3.dxc5 Rxc5 4.Rxa7 Rc4 5.Ke3 Re4+
  ²  (0.63)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:00  64kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c5 3.Rxd5 cxd4 4.Rxd4 Ke7 5.Rd5 Rc4
  ²  (0.69)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:00  147kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c5 3.Rxd5 cxd4 4.Rxd4 Ke7 5.Rd5 Ra3
  ²  (0.66)   Depth: 10/26   00:00:00  276kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c6 3.Rxa7 Rc4 4.Kd3 c5 5.dxc5 bxc5
  ²  (0.66)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:01  669kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c6 3.Rxa7 Rc4 4.Kd3 c5 5.dxc5 bxc5
  ²  (0.44)   Depth: 12/30   00:00:02  1345kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c6 3.Rxa7 Rc4 4.Kd3 c5 5.dxc5 bxc5
  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 13/30   00:00:05  2665kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c6 3.Rxa7 Rc4 4.Kd3 c5 5.dxc5 bxc5
  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 14/33   00:00:10  5103kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c6 3.Rxa7 Rc4 4.Kd3 c5 5.dxc5 bxc5
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 15/32   00:00:23  11949kN
1.Rd7 Rxc3+ 2.Ke2 c6 3.Rxa7 Rc4 4.Kd3 c5 5.dxc5 bxc5
  ²  (0.47)   Depth: 16/32   00:00:50  25808kN, tb=3
1.Kg3!
  ²  (0.50)   Depth: 16/33   00:01:09  34850kN, tb=3
1.Kg3 Rxc3+ 2.Kh4 Rc1 3.Kh5 Rd1 4.Rxc7 Rxd4 5.Rxa7 Rxf4
  ±  (0.72)   Depth: 17/34   00:02:07  64390kN, tb=9
1.Kg3 Rxc3+ 2.Kh4 Rc1 3.Kh5 Rd1 4.Kg6 Rxd4 5.Kf6 Ke8
  ²  (0.69)   Depth: 18/36   00:03:21  101264kN, tb=28
1.Kg3 Rxc3+ 2.Kh4 Rc1 3.Kh5 Rd1 4.Kg6 Rxd4 5.Rh8+ Ke7
  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 19/36   00:06:03  182720kN, tb=142





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