Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:06:39 01/03/01
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On January 03, 2001 at 19:51:25, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
>[D] 8/5p2/8/4P1p1/4bk2/8/8/4BK2 b - - 0 63
>
>This position was reached in a comp-comp blitz game on my computer between
>crafty 17.14 and little goliath. I was surprised that crafty (black) did not
>play Kxe5, which wins, and instead played g4, which eventually draws.
>
>Later I let crafty analyse the position, and it doesn't really seem to settle on
>Kxe5 until ply 16 or thereabouts (about 2 1/2 minutes on my computer).
Interesting. Phalanx takes the pawn right off the bat and never wavers. One
thing I have noticed is that Phalanx has an amazing ability to find moves that
seem tough to other programs for some reason.
E:\programme\winboard\Phalanx>Phalanx -l+ -t32768 -r900 -o-
tellics set 1 Phalanx XXII
primary book ./pbook.phalanx, 48749 bytes
secondary book ./sbook.phalanx, 4831506 bytes
learning file ./learn.phalanx, 262144 bytes
[ white, 1 ]
post
post on
[ white, 1 ]
level 40 240 2400
level: 40 moves in 240:00, increment 2400 seconds
[ white, 1 ]
[ white, 1 ]
8/5p2/8/4P1p1/4bk2/8/8/4BK2 b - - 0 63
8/5p2/8/4P1p1/4bk2/8/8/4BK2 b - - 0 63
-> increment adds 440 s to soft time limit
-> soft time limit 611.42 s
-> hard time limit 12000 s
7 -> 0:00.69 142610 0 turns
8 183 102 209429 Kf4xe5 Be1-d2 Ke5-f5 Bd2-c3 Kf5-g6 Kf1-f2
Pf7-f5 Kf2-g3
8 -> 0:01.78 397592 0 turns
9 189 338 761905 Kf4xe5 Be1-c3 Ke5-f5 Kf1-f2 Kf5-g6 Kf2-e3
Pf7-f5 Ke3-d4 Kg6-h5 Kd4-e5
9 -> 0:05.14 1218019 0 turns
10 189 699 1658891 Kf4xe5 Be1-d2 Ke5-f5
10 -> 0:11.04 2693763 0 turns
11 190 1391 3334115 Kf4xe5 Be1-d2 Ke5-f5 Bd2-c3 Kf5-g6 Kf1-f2
Pf7-f5 Kf2-g3 Kg6-h5 Bc3-d2
11 -> 0:22.98 5683030 0 turns
12 189 3124 7726957 Kf4xe5 Be1-c3 Ke5-f4
12 -> 0:58.47 14603794 0 turns
13 190 6907 16862826 Kf4xe5 Be1-c3 Ke5-f4 Bc3-f6 Pg5-g4 Kf1-f2
13 -> 1:56.11 28378644 0 turns
14 191 14199 34221964 Kf4xe5 Be1-c3 Ke5-f4 Bc3-f6 Pg5-g4 Kf1-f2
Pg4-g3 Kf2-e2 Be4-f3 Ke2-d2 Bf3-d5 Kd2-e2
14 -> 4:08.61 58880889 0 turns
15 197 31793 73424252 Kf4xe5 Be1-c3 Ke5-f4 Bc3-f6 Pg5-g4 Kf1-f2
Pg4-g3 Kf2-e2 Be4-d5 Ke2-f1 Kf4-f3 Kf1-e1
Bd5-c4 Ke1-d2 Bc4-a6 Kd2-c3
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