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Subject: Re: More information + a couple of diagrams

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 01:01:59 10/08/00

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On October 08, 2000 at 03:25:53, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>On October 07, 2000 at 23:45:01, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On October 07, 2000 at 22:51:43, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>>On October 07, 2000 at 19:32:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 07, 2000 at 15:16:17, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The position where the solution is most in doubt:
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]2k2K2/8/pp6/2p5/2P5/PP6/8/8 w - -
>>>>>
>>>>>The authors say that after 1.Ke8 Kc7 2.Ke7, black draws by 2...b5 with a
>>>>>stalemate motif after 3.Ke6 b4 4.a4 Kb6.
>>>>
>>>>nice motif for humans. peanut for the computer to see.
>>>>however, after 1.a4 i get a 0.00 score from diep initially,
>>>>now there are sure some bugs in this version, as i'm busy rewriting
>>>>its hashing to 64 bits (which asks for bugs of course), but 0.00 is
>>>>pretty hard. it is basically doubting between 0.50 and 0.00 on most
>>>>plies. where the stalemate position is 50 moves of shuffling around
>>>>with king and score +1.31. this version not showing +3.x scores weirdly.
>>>>
>>>>what is the win with a4 which i'm missing? and 20 plies of search too,
>>>
>>>Lines given start with:
>>>
>>>1.a4 b5 2.a5
>>>
>>>1.a4 Kd7 (1..b5 2.a5) 2.a5
>>>2...Kd6 (or b5 or bxa5) 3.Kf7
>>>2...Ke6 (or d8) 3.axb6, 4.b7
>>>
>>>I don't want to type lots of big variations, but if you think Diep has found a
>>>defence then please post it so we can analyse it.
>>
>>
>>I quickly generated the following with assistance from Fritz4:
>>
>>1.a4 Kd7 2.a5 Kd6
>>
>>[2...Ke6? 3.axb6 Kd7 4.b7 Kc7 5.Ke7 Kxb7 6.Kd7 Kb6 7.Kc8 Kc6 8.Kb8 Kb6 9.Ka8 a5
>>10.Kb8 a4 11.bxa4 Ka5 12.Kc7 Kxa4 13.Kd6 Kb4 14.Kd5+-]
>>
>>3.Kf7
>>
>>[3.Ke8 bxa5 4.Kd8 a4 5.bxa4 Ke5 6.Kc7 Kd4 7.Kb6 Kxc4 8.Kxa6 Kb4 9.a5 c4 10.Kb6=;
>>3.axb6 Kc6 4.Ke7 Kxb6 5.Kd6 Ka5 6.Kxc5=]
>>
>>3...Kd7 4.axb6 Kc6 5.Ke7 Kxb6 6.Kd6 Ka5=
>>
>>[7.Kc6? Kb4 8.Kb6 a5 9.Kc6 Kxb3-+]
>
>Instead of 4.axb6, the book gives the following line:
>4.Kf6 Kd6 5.Kf5 Kc7 (5...Ke7 6.axb6 Kd6 7.b7 Kc7 8.Ke6 Kxb7 9.Kd7, 5...Kd7 6.Ke5
>Kc6 7.Ke6) 6.Ke6 Kc6 7.Ke7 Kc7 8.Ke8 Kc8 9.axb6 Kb7 10.Kd7 Kxb6 11.Kc8 and
>apparently black is in zugzwang.
>
><snip>

Yes, that looks good to me. Proof that quick does not equal good. Oh well.
Thanks.



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