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Subject: Re: A simple endgame a bit hard for Crafty

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:34:38 01/09/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 15:53:56, Janos Keinrath wrote:

>[D]8/p4k1p/1p3p2/6p1/4K1P1/1r1N2P1/8/8 b - -
>
>I tried this position with Crafty and it needs 15 ply to find the
>correct move Rxd3 (at ply 13 it found the move, but switched to f5).
>For human players easy to see that after Rxd3 white has no defense,
>the passed pawns win.
>How many ply needs for other programs?


Chess Tiger 13.0 and Gambit Tiger 1.0 both find Rxd3 in 5 seconds on my K6-2 450
(24Mb hash tables). The move is found at ply depth 12.



    Christophe



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