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Subject: Re: hard? opposite bishops ending

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 04:03:14 09/19/01

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On September 19, 2001 at 01:10:00, Robin Smith wrote:

>Can any programs solve this ending?
>
>[D] k7/8/4p3/7P/8/3P4/1Bb4P/K7 w - - 0 1
>
>Kazantsev, 1950 study
>
>Solution: 1.Bh8!

Running on PIII 733
Crafty 18.10 in Chessbase 272Mb hash. 3,4,5 piece bases.
Crafty is still running, so who knows?

k7/8/4p3/7P/8/3P4/1Bb4P/K7 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Crafty 18.10:

1.d4 Kb7 2.h4 Kc6 3.Ka2 Be4 4.h6 Kd6 5.Kb3 Ke7 6.Kb4 Kf6 7.Kc5 Kg6 8.Bc1 Bd5
9.h5+ Kh7 10.Kd6 Bc4 11.Bf4 Bd5 12.Bg5
  ²  (0.53)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:02
  ±  (0.90)   Depth: 22/46   00:17:28  289700kN, tb=280578

(Taylor, Notts 19.09.2001)




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