Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:42:10 12/19/00
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On December 19, 2000 at 10:04:03, Paul wrote: >On December 19, 2000 at 03:16:06, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >>On December 18, 2000 at 12:52:43, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>>8/1k/p/p2p2K/P2P/8/8/8 w >>>I think the above is cooked, both Kf5 and Kf6 seem to win. >> >>Position FEN: 8/1k/p/p2p2K/P2P/8/8/8 w >>is from M. Botwinnik, 1939 according to J. Awerbach. >> >>If I do a search for 1. Kf6 Crafty gives a draw >> 60-> 16.89 0.01 1. Kf6 Kb6 2. Ke6 Kc6 3. Ke5 Kc7 4. >> Kxd5 Kd7 5. Kc4 Kd6 6. d5 Kc7 7. Kc5 >> Kd7 8. d6 Kd8 9. Kc6 Kc8 10. Kb6 Kd7 >> 11. Kxa6 <HT> > >>If I, however, search for 1. Kf5 Crafty gives a winning line >> >> 34-> 12.92 9.04 1. Kf5 Kb6 2. Kf6 Kb7 3. Kf7 Kb6 4. >> Ke8 Kc6 5. Kd8 Kd6 6. Kc8 Ke6 7. Kb7 >> Kf5 8. Kc6 Ke4 9. Kc5 Ke3 10. Kxd5 >> Kd3 11. Ke5 Kc4 12. d5 Kc5 13. d6 Kb6 >> 14. Ke6 Kc6 15. d7 Kc7 16. Ke7 <HT> > >Hi ... > >My program (using 5piece etbs) says Kf5 is a mate in 27 max, and Kf6 >gives back a perfect (0.0) draw score. Still ironing out the bugs in >the code however, so I'm curious as to if what Bruce says is true? > >Paul My mistake. I was running without tables. Kf6 is a draw. bruce
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