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Subject: Re: Gandalf and endgames.

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 09:20:37 03/17/01

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On March 17, 2001 at 10:22:39, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On March 17, 2001 at 06:13:23, Christian Koch wrote:
>
>> 8/8/pq1PQ1kp/6p1/8/7P/5PK1/8 b - -
>>
>>This is the evaluation of Gandalf. Gandalf needs much time to see that he is
>>totally lost. Other programms only need seconds to see it.
>>I think Gandalfs endgame should be improved to play at a high level.
>
>I tried this position with Yace. Something strange happened:
>
>     51305   0.702  -0.40  5.  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qe8+ Kf6 4.Qe7+ Kg6 5.Qe8+
>                               Kf6 6.Qe7+ Kg6 {0}
>    111931   1.638  -0.80  6-- 1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg8 3.d7 Qc6+ 4.Kg3 Qc7+ 5.Kg4
>                               Qc6 6.d8=Q+ Qe8 {-921}
>    137448   1.868  -7.64  6t  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 g4 5.d8=Q
>                               Qxh3+ 6.Kg1 {-841}
>    150310   1.974  -7.64  6.  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 g4 5.d8=Q
>                               Qxh3+ 6.Kg1 {-841}
>
>Here one could assume, that it really sees fast, that black is lost
>
>    186148   2.222  -7.75  7t  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 g4 5.Qd6+ Kg7
>                               6.Qe7+ Kg6 7.Qe4+H Kf7H 8.d8=QH Qxh3+H 9.Kg1H
>                               {-841}
>    191019   2.266  -7.75  7.  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 g4 5.Qd6+ Kg7
>                               6.Qe7+ Kg6 7.Qe4+ Kf7 8.d8=Q Qxh3+ 9.Kg1 {-841}
>    337668   3.199  -7.78  8t  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 g4 5.Qd6+ Kf7
>                               6.d8=Q Qxh3+ 7.Kg1 {-841}
>    505552   4.276  -7.78  8.  1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 g4 5.Qd6+ Kf7
>                               6.d8=Q Qxh3+ 7.Kg1 {-841}
>
>And it kept about the same for another 2 plies. But now:
>
>   1666011  12.245  -7.38  9++ 1...Kg7 2.Qe7+ Kg6 3.Qc7 Qb3 4.d7 Qd5+ 5.Kh2
>                               Qd4 6.d8=R Qxf2+ 7.Kh1 {-340}
>   6934801  57.940  -0.40  9t  1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 {HT}
>   7368426  1:01.4  -0.40  9.  1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4
>
>Huch: we are back at almost drawing score.
>
>   8889435  1:13.5  -0.80 10-- 1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 gxh4 4.Qe8+ Kh7 5.Qe7+
>                               Kg6 6.d7 Qc6+ 7.Kh2 Qc7+ 8.Kh3 h5 9.d8=Q a5
>                               {-841}
>  12883052  1:46.1  -1.68 10t  1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 gxh4 4.Qe8+ Kf6 5.d7
>                               Qc6+ 6.Kh2 Qc7+ 7.Kh3 Qc3+ 8.Kxh4 Qc4+ 9.Kg3
>                               Qc7+ 10.f4 Qc3+ 11.Kg4 {HT} {0}
>  13257667  1:48.9  -1.68 10.  1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 gxh4 4.Qe8+ Kf6 5.d7
>                               Qc6+ 6.Kh2 Qc7+ 7.Kh3 Qc3+ 8.Kxh4 Qc4+ 9.Kg3
>                               Qc7+ 10.f4 Qc3+ 11.Kg4 {HT} {0}
>  17090908  2:15.6  -2.08 11-- 1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 gxh4 4.Qe8+ Kf6 5.d7
>                               Qc6+ 6.Kh2 Qc7+ 7.Kh3 Qc3+ 8.Kxh4 Qc4+ 9.Kg3
>                               Qc7+ 10.f4 h5 11.d8=Q+ Kf5 {-921}
>  26447712  3:26.8  -6.50 11t  1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 Kh5 4.Qe8+ Kxh4 5.Qe3
>                               Qxe3 6.fxe3 a5 7.d7 a4 8.d8=Q a3 9.e4 {-841}
>  26573747  3:27.8  -6.50 11.  1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 Kh5 4.Qe8+ Kxh4 5.Qe3
>                               Qxe3 6.fxe3 a5 7.d7 a4 8.d8=Q a3 9.e4 {-841}
>  33767907  4:20.6  -6.90 12-- 1...Kg7 2.Qd7+ Kg6 3.h4 Kh5 4.Qe8+ Kxh4 5.Qe3
>                               Qxe3 6.fxe3 a5 7.d7 Kh5 8.d8=Q Kg6
>
>And after rather long time again at loosing score. I have not investigated the
>reasons, but perhaps this is more complicated for a chess program, than it looks
>at first sight.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

Well, no problem for CM8K, could it be the case that you maybe use incomplete
sets of tablebases?

Ernst.


Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:01	1/4	4.43	5420		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. d7 Qb7+
					4. Kg3 Qc7+ 5. Kf3
0:02	1/6	4.51	40218		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. Qc7 Qb1
					4. d7 Qe4+ 5. Kh2 Qd4
0:03	1/7	4.49	113685		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. d7 Qb7+
					4. Kg3 Qc7+ 5. Kf3 Qc3+ 6. Kg2
					Qc6+ 7. f3 Qc2+ 8. Kg3 Qc7+ 9. Kf2
0:04	1/8	4.48	235483		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. d7 Qb7+
					4. Kg3 Qc7+ 5. Kf3 Qc3+ 6. Kg2
					Qc6+ 7. f3 Qc2+ 8. Kg3 Qc7+ 9.
					Kf2 Qb6+ 10. Ke2
0:09	1/9	4.48	621462		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. d7 Qb7+
					4. Kf1 Qb1+ 5. Ke2 Qc2+ 6. Kf3
					Qc3+ 7. Kg2 Qc6+ 8. f3 Qc2+ 9.
					Kg3 Qc7+ 10. Kf2 Qb6+ 11. Ke2
0:30	1/10	4.31	2250265		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. d7 Qb7+
					4. Kf1 Qb1+ 5. Ke2 Qc2+ 6. Kf3
					Qc3+ 7. Kg2 Qc6+ 8. f3 Qc2+ 9.
					Kg3 Qc7+ 10. Kf2 Qc2+ 11. Ke1 Qc3+
					12. Ke2
2:03	2/11	4.20	9046550		1...Kg7 2. Qe7+ Kg6 3. d7 Qb7+
					4. Kf1 Qb1+ 5. Ke2 Qc2+ 6. Kf3
					Qc3+ 7. Kg2 Qc6+ 8. Kf1 Qb5+ 9.
					Ke1 Qb1+ 10. Kd2 Qb2+ 11. Kd3 Qb3+
					12. Kd4 Qd1+ 13. Kc5
6:40	3/12	6.95	29766104	1...Kg7 2. Qd7+ Kg6 3. h4 g4 4.
					h5+ Kf6 5. Qe7+ Kf5 6. Qf7+ Ke5
					7. d7 Qc6+ 8. Kg3 Qh1 9. f4+ gxf3
					10. Qf4+ Ke6 11. d8=Q Qg2+ 12.
					Kh4 Qh1+ 13. Kg4 Qg2+ 14. Qg3




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