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Subject: Re: Endgame position / running passed pawns

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:31:32 06/05/00

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On June 05, 2000 at 09:09:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 05, 2000 at 08:22:44, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>This is a position from an interesting standard game MissSilicon - Hossa, played
>>today at ICC:
>>
>>[D]5k2/7K/6P1/1p3p2/1P5P/1Pb5/8/8 w
>
>
>
>I think there are times where you have to depend on your search.  Normally
>this is won by black, because black has a bishop to stop white's pawns.  I
>suspect that if you try to write special-purpose code to catch this, it will
>end up being wrong more than it is right.

I agree that writing a special code to catch this case and many other cases is
not trivial but I believe that it is not impossible.

  This is a precise tempo-counting
>issue that just barely lets the 'loser' win.
>
>I'd likely just take the loss and run.  It takes Crafty 9 plies (0 seconds
>of course) to see that the bishop is not winning.  I don't see an obvious
>evaluation trick to make this show up faster...

Hiarcs7.32 needs only 5 plies to see that white is winning because of
extensions.

Uri



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