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Subject: Re: Grigoriev challenge position (correctd PV)

Author: Simon Finn

Date: 03:18:27 09/29/01

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On September 28, 2001 at 18:54:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 28, 2001 at 14:35:55, Simon Finn wrote:
>
>>On September 28, 2001 at 14:27:32, Simon Finn wrote:
>>
>>>On September 28, 2001 at 12:36:55, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>>I think, often in this type of positions (only few pawns), chess programs are
>>>>usually very good. There are only few pawn moves possible, and programs reach a
>>>>high search depth fast, and of course, because of the TBs. Without TBs I get:
>>>
>>>I would be very impressed if any program can solve the following
>>>innocent-looking position (Grigoriev 1933) in a reasonable time. By "solve" I
>>>mean find most of the PV (up to 13. Ka8, say) with a winning score.
>>>
>>>[D]k7/8/pp6/2p4K/8/PPP5/8/8 w - - bm c4;c0 "Grigoriev 1933";pv "1. c4 Kb7 2. a4
>>>Kc6 3. Kg5 Kc7 4. Kf6 Kd7 5. a5 Kd6 6. Kf5 Kc7 7. Ke6 Kc6 8.  Ke7 Kc7 9. Ke8 Kf8
>>>10. axb6 Kb7 11. Kd7 Kxb6 12. Kc8 Kb6 13. Ka8 a5 14. Kb8 a4 15. bxa4 Ka5 16. Kb7
>>>Kxa4 17. Kc6 Kb4 18. Kd5";
>>
>>Sorry - I missed out a move - it should be 13. Kb8 Kc6 14. Ka8 a5 etc.
>
>Fritz found all the right moves against me
>
>Deep Fritz - Blass,U
>Level=Blitz:100'.  Tel-aviv, 29.09.2001
>
> 64MB. URI-PC
> 1.c4  0.03/21  2:52  Kb7 2.a4  0.03/25  1:46  Kc6 3.Kg5  0.13/28  3:29  Kc7
>4.Kf6  0.22/27  4:19  Kd7 5.a5  -0.12/26  2:24  Kd6 6.Kf5  2.22/25  35  Kc7
>7.Ke6  1.56/26  6:38  Kc6 8.Ke7  1.56/24  5:52  Kc7 9.Ke8  4.50/26  34  Kc8
>10.axb6  #27/19  9  Kb7 11.Kd7  #25/17  2  Kxb6 12.Kc8  #24/15  0  Kc6 13.Kb8
>#23/15  0  Kb6 14.Ka8  #22/13  0  a5 15.Kb8  #21/11  0  a4 16.bxa4  #18/6  0
>Ka5 17.Kc7 #17/1  0  Line

That's good, but the challenge is to get a winning score (not 0.03) from the
initial position.

It's one thing to win a won endgame, it's another thing to recognise that it's
won early enough to make the right decisions about piece exchanges.

Simon


>
>
>Uri



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