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

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 20:20:06 10/01/01

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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.

Mine doesn't have tables and found it in 250sec (1ghz PIII).  Didn't have a draw
score but not far off, and it held it for several iterations.

Nice position, will add it to my endgame test suite.

cheers,
Peter

>
>bruce



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