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Subject: Re: Another Embarassing Endgame Problem

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 09:34:42 11/23/01

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On November 23, 2001 at 06:51:46, Colin Frayn wrote:

>[D]8/8/1KPk4/6p1/p7/8/8/8 w - -
>
>... which is also obviously won for white, but which nobody spots statically.
>You're now quite a few ply away from the winning promotion.  Fortunately I
>changed Beowulf's eval() so that it now spots similar positions to these quite
>easily.  The reason why programs don't understand them is the following; (and
>Crafty scores this as something like +7.5 pawns for black)
>

The Crazy Bishop can evaluate this kind of position statically (I am not 100%
sure about this one because black pawns are advanced too, but similar positions
should work). Take a look at my other post. The idea consists in using a special
KPK tablebase to evaluate pawn races.

Rémi



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