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Subject: Re: Test Position. Hard pawn endgame

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:25:24 09/30/01

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On September 30, 2001 at 06:15:44, José Carlos wrote:

>On September 29, 2001 at 20:15:16, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
>
>>José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>  The point is not the move, but the eval. The program must
>>> know white is winning:
>>>
>>> [D]R4rk1/5pp1/5q1p/1p1Qp3/8/1B6/1PP2bPP/5K2 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>  Qxf7+ and after the changes, the pawn ending is won.
>>
>>Crafty 18.11, Athlon 1GHz, has +0.8 after 0.4 seconds (8 ply),
>>rising to 0.93 after 11 seconds, 1.17 after 28 seconds, 1.36
>>after 6 minutes. It plays Qxf7+ at all depths.
>>
>>--
>>g
>
>  It doesn't surprise me at all. Crafty is probably the best in the world
>evaluatiing pawn endgames.
>
>  José C.

How is it possible?

Crafty is a free program so I expect at least a small part of the programmers to
learn from Crafty about the evaluation of pawn endgames and add more knowledge.

Uri



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