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Subject: Re: Testposition - 3 pawns vs bishop and 2 pawns

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 20:02:17 03/04/01

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On March 04, 2001 at 10:28:01, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]8/5pb1/7p/6PK/7P/Pk6/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>  Ellison, 1972
>
>  No story around this one, except to show how tricky endgames with
>  very few pieces can be. One mistake and you're dead...
>  Here white is fighting for the draw. After 1.gxh6 he will find the
>  way, to the remaining black pawn, very long...
>
>  Test: White to move and draw. It might be interesting to check if your
>        program can make it in a) blitz (5-10 min) b) rapidgame (30-60 min)
>        c) tournamentlevel (40/2). The solution is further down.

Takes mine 22 seconds on a quad 450 Xeon to see the right move for the right
reason, although the score is like -0.5 rather than the hoped for draw score.

I think this is pretty cute.

bruce




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