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Subject: Re: Endgame position / running passed pawns

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 12:52:37 06/05/00

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On June 05, 2000 at 15:20:50, Andrew Dados 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
>>
>>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.)

Hi Andrew,

"DarkThought WCCC'99" needs less than a second to score White as
+0.3 in iteration #6 and as +0.57 in iteration #7.

=Ernst=

P.S.
WWW pages of "DarkThought" at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.



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