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Subject: Re: Testposition - the Good the Bad and the...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 22:39:12 02/26/01

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On February 26, 2001 at 20:11:21, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]8/1p1b2k1/p1p1p1p1/2P1P2p/1P3P1P/P2B4/5K2/8 w - - 0 1
>
>  This position is from Baslavsky-Kondratiev 1947 (slightly modified)
>
>  The white bishop can aim at 5 of the opponents pawns. The white king
>  threatens to sneak in at the upper North-West corner - a5,b6,c7.
>  The black bishop looks just like another pawn. The game went like this:
>
>  1.Ke3 Kf7 2.Kd4 Be8 3.Kc3 Ke7 4.Kb3 Kd8 5.Ka4 Kc7 6.Ka5 Bf7 (Black cannot
>  allow Kb6 and is reduced to waiting moves with his bishop)
>  7.Bc4! Bg8 8.a4 Bf7 9.b5 axb5 10.axb5 Bg8  (if 10.-cxb5 11.Bxb5 Bg8 12.Be8)
>  11.b6+  (From now on black has to constantly guard himself against Ba6,
>  which gives white free hands on the king's flank.)
>  11.-Kd8 12.Kb4 Bf7 13.Kc3 Kd7 14.Kd4 Kd8 15.Ke3 Kd7 16.f5! gxf5 17.Kf4 Bg6
>  18.Kg5 Be8 19.Kf6 f4 20.Be2 and wins.
>
>
>  Test1: The above position. It's won for white and your program should
>         show a high +score for white.

Rebel +0.75


>  Test2: Exchange the good white Bd3 to the more ugly Bc3. This position
>         is now a draw and your program should show close to 0.00.
>         The new position below:

Rebel +0.50

So the difference is 0.25

Ed


>  [D]8/1p1b2k1/p1p1p1p1/2P1P2p/1P3P1P/P1B5/5K2/8 w - - 0 1
>
>  Sune



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