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Subject: Re: JAFM's interesting pawn endgame test position:

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:45:44 10/01/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 21:39:41, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 01, 2001 at 21:20:08, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On October 01, 2001 at 15:30:41, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On October 01, 2001 at 15:18:44, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>To be fair, this is because it thought g4 was also a draw.  If Yace thought
>>>>that, too, there isn't a difference.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not trying to apologize for Crafty, but it is dangerous to assume that just
>>>>because one program chose the fork in the road that did not lead to an army of
>>>>demons, it means that it could see them.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe it saw them, I don't know.
>>>
>>>Of course, every good program will shine on some position and not do as well on
>>>others.
>>>
>>>How does Ferret do on this one?  The machine I used was 950 MHz Athlon for
>>>comparison.
>>
>>It took 35 seconds on a dual 1.2 ghz machine, with tables (but not KPP vs KP).
>>The score was 0.00.  Without tables it's been going for a while and hasn't found
>>it yet.

I am curious about why you don't have kppkp.  It's only 50 megabytes:
05/10/2000  12:00a          34,118,774 kppkp.nbb.emd
05/10/2000  12:00a          28,762,929 kppkp.nbw.emd

>I have the full 5 piece Nalimov files on my machine, and all of my chess
>programs point to the same set.
>
>For the Edwards, I only have the 4 piece set.
>
>It looks like an excellent test position.



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