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Subject: Re: endgame position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:08:12 01/03/01

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On January 03, 2001 at 19:55:30, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:

>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).
>
>I don't have all the tablebases (I have the 3s, 4s and a lot of the 5s). Does
>crafty find the move more quickly if all the tbs are present?

Ply 17 with all the 5's.  I expect the 6's would help a lot, but that's a lot of
disk.



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