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Subject: Re: Endgame position / running passed pawns

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 18:31:42 06/05/00

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On June 05, 2000 at 15:52:37, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>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.

A score of +0.57 just means your program does not see that White is winning.
Presumably, it would score it negatively without the superfluous pawn on b3?

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



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