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Subject: Re: Difficult endgame test position (but solvable for humans!)

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:59:44 06/09/00

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On June 09, 2000 at 12:11:16, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>>[D]8/8/Pk5K/2p5/2P1pp2/8/5P1P/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Programs cannot see at evaluation time that black is winning because of
>>unstoppable pawn.
>>
>>If I give them to analyze at 1 ply depth they give a big advantage for white.
>
>What do you mean by "big advantage"?
>
>"DarkThought WCCC'99" knows about White's unstoppable passed Pawn
>on h2 and it also knows about the potential breakthrough of the
>two Black Pawns on e4 and f4. Both somehow cancel each other out
>in the static evaluation such that the overall score is just the
>+1 material advantage of White.
>
>=Ernst=

Some other programs gave more than +2 for white and in one of the cases(I think
it was hiarcs7.32) they gave even about +7 pawns at 1 ply depth.

Uri



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