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Subject: Re: Odd Position

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 13:51:30 01/30/98

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 I just ran this again (but longer) and it switches back to h5
with more searching at ply 12.  I think it is hard for black
to go wrong here, so perhaps our programs are seeing lots
of ways to go right and can't make up their minds...

 - Dan


On January 30, 1998 at 16:37:23, Dan Homan wrote:

>Here's the output of my program, EXchess.  It likes h5 for a
>while but then switches to Kf4.  My amateur analysis is that
>Kf4 is better because it closes off any possibility that
>the white king can catch the h-pawn.
>
> - Dan
>
>Note my scores are 100 = 1 pawn.
>
>Black(1): display
>
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>8 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    Black to move
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>7 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | *P|    castle: -
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>6 |   | *P|   |   | K | P | *B|   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>5 | *P|   |   |   |   |   | *K|   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>4 | P |   | P |   |   |   |   |   |    fifty: 0
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>3 |   | P |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>2 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>1 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h
>
>Black(1): analyze 120
>  3.    357     0      288   g6c2 b3b4 c2f5 e6e5
>  4.    244     0     1302   g6c2 f6f7 c2f5 e6e5 f5d3
>  4.    323     0     2909   g6f5 e6e5 f5c2 c4c5 c2b3
>  5.     11     1     7549   g6f5 e6e7 f5g6 f6f7 g6f7 e7f7
>  5.     16     1     9360   g5f4 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 f4f5 f7f8
>  5.     18     1    11889   h7h5 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 h5h4 f7f8
>  5.    224     1    13689   g5h6 e6d7 g6c2 d7c6 c2b3
>  6.     20     1    17463   g5h6 e6e7 b6b5 f6f7 g6f7 e7f7
>  7.     16     1    34108   g5h6 e6e7 h6g5 f6f7 g6f7 e7f7
>                               g5f4
>  7.     18     2    62858   g6h5 f6f7 h5f7 e6f7 h7h5 f7f8
>                               h5h4 f8f7
>  7.     30     2    66095   h7h5 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 h5h4 f7f8
>                               g5h5 f8f7
>  8.     30     2    75499   h7h5 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 h5h4 f7e7
>                               g5h5 e7f7
>  9.     25     4   143255   h7h5 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 h5h4 f7e7
>                               g5h5 e7d6 h4h3 c4c5
> 10.    111    13   502809   h7h5 c4c5 h5h4 c5b6 h4h3 e6e5
>                               h3h2 b6b7 h2h1 b7b8
> 11.     14    28  1119575   h7h5 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 h5h4 c4c5
>                               b6c5 f7e6 c5c4 b3c4
> 11.     15    55  2182050   g6f5 e6f7 f5g6 f7e7 g6h5 f6f7
>                               h5f7 e7f7 g5f5 f7f8
> 11.    110    89  3536351   g5f4 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 f4e5 f7e7
>                               e5d4 e7d7 d4c3 d7c6
> 12.    110   100  4004436   g5f4 f6f7 g6f7 e6f7 f4e5 f7e7
>                               e5d4 e7d7 d4c3 d7c6
>
>node_count = 4800970 quiescent nodes = 127829 eval_count = 337008
>hash hits = 1536049 hash moves = 246483 pawn hash hits = 330694
>node_rate = 40008 null cuts = 0 exten = 153542 mthreats = 0



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