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Subject: Re: Yet again: Hashing and FINE 70

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 03:18:27 12/19/00

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On December 19, 2000 at 00:27:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 18, 2000 at 18:03:20, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>This is my standard test set for hashing:
>>
>>[D]8/k7/3p4/p2P1p2/P2P1P2/8/8/K7 w - - 0 1
>>id "HASH-01";bm Kb1;c0 "Kb1! only wins";
>>[D]8/1p5k/1P1p4/3p4/3Pp2p/2K1P2p/7P/8 w - - 0 1
>>id "HASH-02";bm Kb2;c0 "Kb2! forces draw";
>>[D]k1N5/2p5/8/1P6/8/8/7K/8 w - - 0 1
>>id "HASH-03";c0 "dead drawn";
>
>Are you sure the above is drawn?  Crafty says Nb6+ and if cxb6 it is a
>mate in 20-something.  If not, Na5 locks things up until the king gets
>over and wins...

You mean Na4. The "dead drawn" is obviously a typo. The position loses its point
unless it is White to play and win.

>
>I checked this with the 5 piece endgame tablebases and get the following
>output:
>
>1. Nb6+ cxb6 2. Kg3 Kb7 3. Kf4 Kc7 4. Ke5 Kd7 5. Kd5 Kc7 6. Ke6 Kb8
>7. Kd7 Kb7 8. Kd6 Ka8 9. Kc7 Ka7 10. Kc6 Ka8 11. Kxb6 Kb8 12. Ka6
>Kc7 13. Ka7 Kd6 14. b6 Kc5 15. b7 Kd4 16. b8=Q Ke3 17. Qh8 Kd2 18.
>Qe8 Kd1 19. Qe3 Kc2 20. Kb6 Kb1 21. Qf2 Ka1 22. Kc5 Kb1 23. Kd4 Ka1
>24. Kc3 Kb1 25. Qb2#
>
>
>
>
>>[D]1K6/8/2p4p/5p2/1P3P1k/4pP1p/4P2P/8 w - - 0 1
>>id "HASH-04";bm Ka8;c0 "Study W.Bolanowski, 1.Ka8! wins";



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