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Subject: Re: Testposition - Avoid Stalemate

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 14:03:11 03/17/01

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On March 17, 2001 at 12:21:45, Sune Larsson wrote:

>  8/2R5/k7/P7/2PK4/8/1P2r3/8 w - - 0 1
>
>
>  This position was sent to me just two hours ago (thanks!)
>  White has a won position but must avoid the last trap,
>  which is 1.b4?? and a draw. The programs I have tried
>  sees this but in different speed. (PIII 800)
>
>  Deep Fritz     0 sec
>  Nimzo 8        2  "
>  Hiarcs 7.32    2  "
>  Crafty 18.03  20  "
>  Fritz 5.32    48  "
>
>
>  Test: 1) Does your program realize that 1.b4?? is a draw?
>        2) How much time needed?

About 2 seconds for Yace on AMD K6-2 475:

    nodes    time   score depth
    185932   1.921   3.52  9.  1.b4 Re4+ 2.Kd3 Re3+ 3.Kd2 Rd3+ 4.Ke2 Re3+
                               5.Kd1 Re1+ 6.Kd2 Re2+ 7.Kc1 Rc2+ 8.Kd1 Rd2+
                               9.Ke1 Re2+ 10.Kf1 Rf2+ 11.Kg1 Rg2+ 12.Kh1 Rh2+
                               13.Kg1
    206431   2.073   3.12 10-- 1.b4 Re4+ 2.Kd3 Re3+ 3.Kd2 Rd3+ 4.Kc1 Rd1+
                               5.Kb2 Rb1+ 6.Kc3 Rxb4 7.Rc6+ Kxa5 8.Rc7 Rb1
                               9.Kd4 {80}
    237449   2.289   0.00 10t  1.b4 Re4+ 2.Kd3 Re3+ 3.Kd2 Rd3+ 4.Kc1 Rd1+
                               5.Kb2 Rd2+ 6.Kb1 Rb2+ 7.Kc1 Rc2+ 8.Kb1 Rb2+
                               9.Kxb2H {740}
    244630   2.350   0.01 10t+ 1.b3 Kxa5
    463424   3.636   2.59 10t  1.b3 Kxa5 2.Rc5+ Kb6 3.b4 Rd2+ 4.Kc3 Rd1 5.Rb5+
                               Kc6 6.Re5 Kd6 7.Re2 {160}
    855351   5.929   2.60 10t+ 1.Rc6+ Kxa5 2.Rc5+ Ka6 3.b4 Ka7
   1191726   7.996   2.60 10t  1.Rc6+ Kxa5 2.Rc5+ Ka4H 3.Rc8H Rg2H 4.Ra8+H
                               Kb3H 5.Rb8+H Kc2H 6.b4H Rg4+H 7.Kd5H Kd3H 8.c5H
                               Rd4+H 9.Kc6H Ke4H {160}
   1227437   8.232   2.61 10t+ 1.Kc3 Kxa5 2.b4+ Ka6
   1581185  10.535   2.63 10t  1.Kc3 Kxa5 2.b4+ Kb6 3.Rd7 Re6 4.Rd2 Kc6 5.Kb3
                               Rd6H 6.Rc2H Rd4H {160}
   1586894  10.583   2.63 10.  1.Kc3 Kxa5 2.b4+ Kb6 3.Rd7 Re6 4.Rd2 Kc6 5.Kb3
                               Rd6 6.Rc2 Rd4 {160}
-- Dieter





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