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Subject: Re: YAEP

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 12:06:55 07/26/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 01:12:05, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Here is yet another endgame position:
>
>[D]3R4/8/6p1/p1p2bk1/P1Pb4/1P5P/6B1/7K w
>
>It's from a game MissSilicon (nut) - Hossa. Misssi found the nice move b4!
>Andrew Dados told me that his program needs about 14 seconds (Andrew, do I
>remember right?) to find this move. I tried it with Hossa and it took ages. How
>does your favourite program perform? And another important question: is there
>another way to win this position for white?

Crafty 17.6 on a K6-2/400 (getting about 150knps in this position):
  - likes b4 almost instantly
  - switches to Ra8 after a couple of seconds (+2.2ish)
  - fails high on b4 after about 25s
  - resolves the fail-high after about 50s (+3.4ish)
  - sticks with b4 up to (at least) 3 minutes

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