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Subject: Re: YAEP

Author: William Bryant

Date: 20:13:25 07/26/00

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

>Here is yet another endgame position:
>
>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?
>
>Best wishes,
>Steffen.

The key is the passed pawn extension, which I have disabled on some recent
versions of Screamer.

The version with a passed pawn extension finds b4 at ply 8/5 in 21.105 seconds
The version without the extnsion takes forever to fail high on ply 14/02 in
1827.414 seconds.  The programs are otherwise identical.

G2 266mhz Mac.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com

Log below

-----with passed pawn extension
New Board Position
3R4/8/6p1/p1p2bk1/P1Pb4/1P5P/6B1/7K w
Move 1 W>>
The Current Search Time: 300 seconds
Trying Book Move
PLY       NODES     TIME    SCORE  PV
__________________________________________________
 5/00      6703     0.114   +2.23  Rd5 Kf4 Rd6 Bc2 Rb6
 5/02     10184     0.213   +2.53  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bf5 Kh2
 6/00     17072     0.343   +2.48  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bf5 Kh2 Be4
 7/00     41645     0.734   +2.48  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bf5 Kh2 Be5+ Kg1 Be4
 8/00     91821     1.486   +2.43  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bd1 Rd3 Bc2 Rg3+ Kf4 Kh2
 8/05   1247482    21.105      ++  b4
 8/05   1976497    32.642   +3.01  b4 Bf6 Rf8 Bd3 bxc5 Bxc4 c6

-----with passed pawn extension
New Board Position
3R4/8/6p1/p1p2bk1/P1Pb4/1P5P/6B1/7K w
Move 1 W>>
Trying Book Move
PLY       NODES     TIME    SCORE  PV
__________________________________________________
 5/00      5250     0.086   +2.23  Rd5 Kf4 Rd6 Bc2 Rb6
 5/02      8363     0.192   +2.53  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bf5 Kh2
 6/00     13694     0.310   +2.48  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bf5 Kh2 Be4
 7/00     34035     0.654   +2.48  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bf5 Kh2 Be5+ Kg1 Be4
 8/00     70872     1.214   +2.43  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bd1 Rd3 Bc2 Rg3+ Kf4 Kh2
 9/00    194210     2.874   +2.38  Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bd1 Rd3 Bc2 Rg3+ Kf4 Rf3+ Ke5 Kh2
 9/02    426487     6.148   +2.48  Rb8 Bc3 Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bd4 Kh2 Be5+ Kg1 Be4
10/00    779097    11.162   +2.51  Rb8 Bc2 Rb5 Kf4 Kh2 g5 Bd5 Kf5 Rb7 Ke5
10/02    932604    13.047   +2.58  Ra8 Bc3 Rf8 Bc2
11/00   1666240    23.070   +2.58  Ra8 Bc3 Rf8 Bc2 Rf3 Bd4 Kh2 Be5+ Kg1 Bd1 Rd3
Bc2
12/00   3522052    47.649   +2.48  Ra8 Bc3 Rf8 Be5 Kg1 Bc2 Rf3 Bd1
13/00  11899105   161.379   +2.45  Ra8 Bc3 Re8 Bd4 Rb8 Bc2 Rb5 Kf4 Kh2 Bc3 Rxc5
Bxb3 Bc6
14/00  28086697   373.499   +2.43  Ra8 Bc3 Re8 Bd4 Rb8 Bc2 Rb5 Kf4 Kh2 Bc3 Rb6
Ke5 Kg3 Bd4
14/02  67167088   933.832      ++  b4
14/02 112495514  1827.414   +3.51  b4 Bf6 Rf8 axb4 h4+ Kxh4 Rxf6





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