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Subject: Re: Testposition - Pawn ending

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 11:06:28 03/10/01

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On March 10, 2001 at 09:51:28, Sune Larsson wrote:

>  8/6p1/8/1pK2P2/p4k2/5P2/3P3P/8 w - - 0 1

>  Test: White wins. Don't know if the programs can make this one
>        but it sure is possible. Solution further down.
>
>
>  Sune

While Yace finds f6 soon, it needs quite some time to see a positive score

  17049481  1:56.1  -0.78 19.  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 Ke4 4.h4 f5 5.h5 f4
                               6.h6 f3 7.h7 f2 8.h8=Q f1=Q 9.Qe5+ Kf3 10.Qf5+
                               Kg2 11.Qxf1+ Kxf1 12.Kxb5 {0}
  18906129  2:08.8  -0.72 20t  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.h4 Kg4 4.d4 f5 5.d5 f4
                               6.d6 f3 7.d7 f2 8.d8=Q f1=Q 9.Qg5+ Kh3 10.h5
                               Qc4+ 11.Ka5 a3 12.Qxb5 Qxb5+ 13.Kxb5 {0}
  24570837  2:51.0  -0.72 20.  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.h4 Kg4 4.d4 f5 5.d5 f4
                               6.d6 f3 7.d7 f2 8.d8=Q f1=Q 9.Qg5+ Kh3 10.h5
                               Qc4+ 11.Ka5 a3 12.Qxb5 Qxb5+ 13.Kxb5 {0}
  27492720  3:09.8  -0.32 21++ 1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 Ke4 4.h4 f5 5.h5 f4
                               6.h6 f3 7.h7 f2 8.h8=Q Kf3 9.Kxb5 f1=R
  30000293  3:26.2  -0.23 21t  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 Ke4 4.h4 f5 5.h5 f4
                               6.h6 f3 7.h7 f2 8.h8=Q f1=Q 9.Qe5+ Kf3 10.Qf5+
                               Kg2 11.Qxf1+ Kxf1 12.d5 Ke2H {HT} {-80}
  42473134  5:03.2  -0.23 21.  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 Ke4 4.h4 f5 5.h5 f4
                               6.h6 f3 7.h7 f2 8.h8=Q f1=Q 9.Qe5+ Kf3 10.Qf5+
                               Kg2 11.Qxf1+ Kxf1 12.d5 Ke2 {HT} {-80}
  63418596  7:33.9   0.17 22++ 1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 Ke4 4.h4 f5 5.h5 f4
                               6.h6 a3 7.Kxa3 f3 8.h7 f2 9.h8=Q f1=R
  95082248 10:48.7   0.51 22t  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 Ke4 4.h4 f5 5.h5 f4
                               6.h6 f3 7.h7 f2 8.h8=Q f1=Q 9.Qe5+ Kf3 10.Qf5+
                               Kg2 11.Qxf1+ Kxf1 12.d5 Ke2 13.d6 Kd3 14.Kxb5
                               {0}

I also tested this with a version of Yace, that very aggressively uses EGTBs,
even in qsearch. The only relevant 5-men table I have is KPPKP (I think KQPKP
could also help here)

  17119392  5:10.0   0.00 19.  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 a3 4.Kxa3 Ke4 5.h4
                               Kxd4 {EGTB} 6.h5! Kc3! 7.h6 b4+! 8.Ka4 b3!
                               9.h7! b2! {Not all positions found in TB} {-80}
  22597523  6:51.6   0.40 20++ 1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 Kxf3 3.d4 a3 4.Kb3 f5 5.d5 Ke4
                               6.d6 Ke5 7.d7 a2 8.d8=Q a1=R
  58189126 13:59.0   1.04 20t  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 a3 3.Kb3 f5 4.h4 b4 5.d4 Ke3
                               6.d5 Kd2 7.d6 a2 8.Kxa2 Kc2 9.d7 b3+ 10.Ka3 b2
                               11.d8=Q b1=Q 12.Qd4 {HT} {80}
  68657840 17:18.5   1.04 20.  1.f6 gxf6 2.Kb4 a3 3.Kb3 f5 4.h4 b4 5.d4 Ke3
                               6.d5 Kd2 7.d6 a2 8.Kxa2 Kc2 9.d7 b3+ 10.Ka3 b2
                               11.d8=Q b1=Q 12.Qd4 {HT} {80}

Regards,
Dieter




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