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Subject: Re: Endgame position / running passed pawns

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 12:20:50 06/05/00

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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
>
>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!
>

 Interesting question is how long it takes to find a positive eval for white in
this position (few moves earlier):

[D]8/4k1p1/6K1/1p2bPP1/1P6/1P5P/8/8 w - -

(mine takes a bit less then 50 sec on K6-450 to show +0.6; no tablebases.)
-Andrew-



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