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Subject: Re: Test - Pawn ending

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 15:12:26 02/27/01

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On February 27, 2001 at 15:37:03, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]8/6k1/2p5/pp2p3/4P1K1/2PP4/P7/8 b - - 0 1
>
>  This is Damjanovic-Dvorecki, Vilnius 1978. Mistakes in the endgame are
>  punished severely. Here black is on the move and has to decide if he
>  wants to lose with 1.-c5??, thinks peace and draw is good enough with 1.-Kf6?,
>  or goes for the whole cheese with 1.-Kg6! Oh, this is just tiresome
>  calculation. No match for Kasparov, I guess. Computers?
>
>  The game went like this:
>
>  1.-Kg6!  [1.-c5?? 2.Kf5 b4 3.cxb4 cxb4 4.Kxe5 a4 5.Kd4+-]
>           [1.-Kf6? 2.Kf3 c5 3.Ke3 b4 4.d4! cxd4+ 5.cxd4 a4 6.dxe5+ Kxe5 7.Kd3=]
>
>  2.Kf3  [2.d4 exd4 3.cxd4 b4-+]  2.-c5 3.Ke3  [3.d4 cxd4 4.cxd4 b4! 5.Ke3 a4-+]
>  3.-b4 4.d4  [4.cxb4 cxb4 5.Kd2 a4! 6.Kc2 Kg5 7.Kd2 Kf4-+]
>  4.-cxd4+ 5.cxd4 a4! 6.Kd3 b3 7.axb3 a3 8.Kc2 exd4 9.b4 d3+ 0-1
>
>  Test: 1.-c5?? loses. If you are a programmer please rewrite your program
>                       totally from scratch. If you are a consumer just
>                       throw the damned thing. ;)
>
>        1.-Kf6? draws. Ok, peaceful mind - but you just missed some glory.
>                       Programmers: Have a look at the evals - the right move
>                       was just around the corner.
>
>        1.-Kg6! wins.  Congrats! This is good stuff. Just hope the margin
>                       to 1.-Kf6? was more than 0.02...
>
>  Sune


I noticed it has already been shown that this analysis is quite dubious although
the variations after ...Kf6 are not completely convincing so far IMHO ; yet I
wanted to add another machinehead opinion ..

Bringer 1.8 beta on PIII500 :

0:00:00.4  ( 8/12)      27388   0.11  g7-f6  d3-d4  f6-e6  g4-f3  a5-a4  f3-e3
a4-a3  e3-d3
0:00:01.0  ( 9/14)      68331   0.30  g7-f6  d3-d4  b5-b4  c3xb4  a5xb4  d4-d5
c6xd5  e4xd5  e5-e4
0:00:01.7  (10/16)     120761   0.19  g7-f6  d3-d4  f6-e6  g4-f3  b5-b4  c3xb4
0:00:03.4  (11/19)     223786   0.22  g7-f6  d3-d4  b5-b4  c3xb4  a5xb4  d4-d5
0:00:07.8  (12/20)     534600   0.33  g7-f6  g4-f3  b5-b4  f3-e2  c6-c5  e2-d2
f6-e6  d2-c2  a5-a4  c3xb4  c5xb4  c2-d2
0:00:14.0  (13/20)     843790   0.42  g7-f6  g4-f3  b5-b4  c3xb4  a5xb4
0:00:16.1  (13/33)    1052572   0.43  g7-g6
0:00:17.1  (13/33)    1246520   0.44  g7-g6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  a5-a4  e3-d2
0:00:22.7  (14/35)    1623314   0.45  g7-g6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  a5-a4  e3-d2
b5-b4  d2-c1  g6-f7  c3xb4
0:00:35.4  (15/36)    2654855   0.45  g7-g6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  a5-a4  e3-d2
b5-b4  d2-c1  g6-f7  c1-b1  f7-e7  b1-c2  e7-f6
0:00:50.0  (15/36)    3305873   0.46  g7-f6
0:01:19.0  (16/36)    4941089   0.46  g7-f6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  a5-a4  e3-e2
f6-e6  e2-d2
0:02:36.4  (17/40)    9061026   0.54  g7-f6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  a5-a4  e3-e2
b5-b4  e2-d2  f6-g5
0:04:54.8  (18/40)   17775669   0.62  g7-f6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  a5-a4  e3-d2
a4-a3  d2-c2
0:06:37.7  (18/47)   25255494   0.63  g7-g6
0:09:40.8  (18/47)   74930089   0.81  g7-g6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  b5-b4  e3-d2
a5-a4  d2-c1  g6-h5
0:18:30.6  (19/47)   159314363   1.21  g7-g6
0:26:19.2  (19/47)   233336751   1.37  g7-g6  g4-f3  c6-c5
0:44:52.0  (20/49)   322523296   1.52  g7-g6  g4-f3  c6-c5  f3-e3  b5-b4  e3-d2
a5-a4  d2-c2  g6-g5  c2-c1  g5-f4  c1-d2  b4-b3  a2xb3  a4xb3  c3-c4  b3-b2
d2-c2  f4-e3  c2xb2






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