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Subject: Re: Endgame position / running passed pawns

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 09:02:22 06/05/00

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Hi Steffen,

>[D]5k2/7K/6P1/1p3p2/1P5P/1Pb5/8/8 w
>
>White is obviously winning. The static evaluation of this position of my program
>is totally wrong because Hossa thinks that the pawn f5 is running. Even after
>some improvements Hossa needs 8 plies to see a positive score!

"DarkThought WCCC'99" sees White winning from iteration #4 onwards.

I suspect that you need carefully tuned extensions for pushed of
passed Pawns to find this early and quickly.

=Ernst=



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