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Subject: Re: Pawn Torture tests?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 20:07:15 09/26/01

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On September 25, 2001 at 22:56:30, Koundinya Veluri wrote:

>Here's a good one I just found today in Franks's little test tournamet:

I agree - very interesting position

>Leila - King of Kings
>
>6B1/1pp3p1/3p4/n1k2P2/2P3P1/4K3/8/8 b - - 0 40
>
>I think black already lost here, but it takes a very long time for a program to
>know this without good "passed pawn unstoppable" or "strong advanced connected
>passed pawns" knowledge.

I am not sure, what you mean by "very long time". I have a rather slow computer
(K6-2 475). It takes Yace less than 20 seconds, to see the critical fail low. On
more current hardware, this time should be around 5 seconds, and Yace should be
able to avoid Nxc4+ at Blitz time control.

   2938185  13.815   2.23 12.  40...Nxc4+ 41.Bxc4 Kxc4 42.Kf4 Kd5 43.Kg5 c5
                               44.Kg6 c4 45.Kxg7 c3 46.f6 c2 47.f7 c1=Q
                               48.f8=Q Qg5+ 49.Kh7 Qxg4 {160}
   3888266  17.969   1.83 13-- 40...Nxc4+ 41.Bxc4 Kxc4 42.Kf4 Kd5 43.g5 g6
                               44.Kg4 c5 45.fxg6 Ke6 46.Kh5 d5 47.Kh6 b6 48.g7
                               Kf7 49.Kh7 Ke7 {80}
   4363321  20.175   0.83 13-- 40...Nxc4+ 41.Bxc4 Kxc4 42.Kf4 Kd5 43.g5 b5
                               44.g6 c5 45.f6 c4 46.f7 c3 47.f8=Q c2 48.Qxg7
                               c1=Q+ 49.Kf5 {80}
  10033081  48.782  -2.83 13t  40...Nxc4+ 41.Bxc4 d5 42.g5 Kd6 43.f6 gxf6
                               44.g6 Ke7 45.Bxd5 Kf8 46.Bxb7 Kg7 47.Be4 c5
                               {HT} {-270}
  10295474  49.834  -2.82 13t+ 40...b6 41.g5 d5 42.cxd5
  11780893  57.144   0.23 13t  40...b6 41.g5 Nc6 42.f6 gxf6 43.gxf6 Ne5 44.Be6
                               b5 45.cxb5 Kxb5 46.f7 Nxf7 47.Bxf7 c5 48.Bd5H
                               {-190}
  12344171  59.910   0.24 13t+ 40...Nc6 41.g5 b5 42.cxb5 Kxb5 43.Kf4
  14511053  1:10.5   0.30 13t  40...Nc6 41.g5 Nd4 42.f6 gxf6 43.gxf6 c6 44.f7H
                               Ne6H 45.Kf3H {HT}
  16829387  1:22.2   0.30 13.  40...Nc6 41.g5 Nd4 42.f6 gxf6 43.gxf6 c6 44.f7
                               Ne6 45.Kf3

Regards,
Dieter



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