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Subject: Re: Endgame position, help needed__Here it is then!

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 02:53:15 07/31/00

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On July 31, 2000 at 05:26:55, Chris Taylor wrote:

>On July 31, 2000 at 02:25:37, Poschmann wrote:
>
>>In a magazine I found the following position. It should be a draw ?
>>Unfortunately I don't have the following issue of the magazine with the
>>solution.
>>It is a 6-piece-endgame. I tried to solve it with the help of Fritz6
>>(without tablebases), but I can't.
>>
>>[D]K7/8/4k3/1R1R4/8/8/p7/7r w - -
>>
>>I had the following to ideas:
>>a) Go to a 5-piece-endgame:
>>1. Re5+ Kf6 2. Rf5+ Kg6 3. Rg5+ Kh6 4. Rh5+ Rxh5 5. Rb6+ Kg5 6. Ra6 Rh2
>>
>>b) Allow Black to promote the pawn:
>>... 4. Rge5 a1=Q+ 5. Ra5
>>
>>I think in both cases White loses the game. But I can't proof it without
>>tablebases.
>>- Can somebody with the 5-piece-tablebases proof position a)
>>- Are some 6-piece-tablebases available to proof position b) without a pawn or
>>  the initial position with one pawn.
>>- Is there somebody who knows the initial position and its solution ?
>>
>>Thank you
>>Ralf Poschmann
>
>Here is some analasis via Crafty 17.10 with all the 3,4,and 5 endgame stuff..
>
>K7/8/4k3/1R1R4/8/8/p7/7r w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Crafty 17.10:
>
>1.Kb7 a1Q
>  -+  (-4.80)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:01
>1.Re5+
>  -+  (-4.40)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:01
>1.Re5+ Kd6
>  +-  (2.48)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:01
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6
>  +-  (2.42)   Depth: 2/5   00:00:01
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6
>  +-  (2.36)   Depth: 3/7   00:00:01
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rxa1 Rxa1+
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 4/9   00:00:02
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rxa1 Rxa1+
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 5/11   00:00:02
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rxa1 Rxa1+
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 6/15   00:00:02  12kN, tb=34
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rh5+ Rxh5 6.Rxa1
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 7/15   00:00:02  21kN, tb=85
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rh5+ Rxh5 6.Rxa1 Kg5
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 8/19   00:00:02  37kN, tb=138
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rh5+ Rxh5 6.Rxa1 Kg5 7.Ka7
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 9/19   00:00:03  54kN, tb=309
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Kb8 a1Q 5.Kb7 Qf6 6.Rg3 Qe6 7.Ra5
>  -+  (-4.35)   Depth: 10/23   00:00:05  362kN, tb=610
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Kb7 a1Q 5.Rg8 Rb1 6.Rxb1 Qxb1+ 7.Kc6 Qc2+
>8.Kd6 Kh5
>  -+  (-4.35)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:08  748kN, tb=1426
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Kb7 a1Q 5.Rg4 Rb1 6.Rbb4 Rxb4+ 7.Rxb4 Kg5
>8.Kb6 Qf6+ 9.Kb5 Kf5
>  -+  (-4.45)   Depth: 12/27   00:00:16  2040kN, tb=2562
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rge5 Qb1 6.Rab5 Qa2+ 7.Ra5 Qb2
>8.Reb5 Qg2+ 9.Ka7 Kg7
>  -+  (-4.51)   Depth: 13/30   00:00:59  10323kN, tb=9543
>1.Re5+ Kf6 2.Rf5+ Kg6 3.Rg5+ Kh6 4.Ra5 a1Q 5.Rge5 Qb1 6.Rab5 Qa2+ 7.Ra5 Qb2
>8.Reb5 Qg2+ 9.Ka7 Kg7
>  -+  (-4.11)   Depth: 14/34   00:01:14  12784kN, tb=15185
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 14/34   00:01:19  13746kN, tb=17132
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 15/35   00:01:27  14952kN, tb=20865
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 16/36   00:01:41  17319kN, tb=25739
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 17/38   00:02:07  21621kN, tb=37589
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 18/40   00:02:58  29953kN, tb=56663
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 19/42   00:04:25  45080kN, tb=103072
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 20/44   00:06:56  75061kN, tb=166647
>1.Re5+ Kd6 2.Rbd5+ Kc6 3.Rc5+ Kb6 4.Rb5+ Ka6 5.Ra5+ Kb6 6.Reb5+ Kc6 7.Rxa2
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 21/46   00:11:59  140725kN, tb=334471
>
>(Taylor, Notts 31.07.2000)
>
>After nearly 12 mins on an AMD 500 128 meg of ram.........
>
>Chris Taylor..

After all that, it still manages to not give the main line! Somehow the relevant
line is buried somewhere, but fails to make an appearance as a PV. How funny!



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