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Subject: Re: jenoban #60

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:50:13 12/22/01

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On December 22, 2001 at 07:12:00, Steffen Jakob wrote:

Bc5+       1
Kc8        2
Ba7        3
nullmove   4+R
Kd2        5+R
nullmove   6+2R
Kc3        7+2R
nullmove   8+3R
Kb4        9+3R
nullmove  10+4R
Ka5       11+4R
nullmove  12+5R
nullmove  13+6R
<move>    14+6R
check in qsearch and capture rook.

Estimation to find it: 14+6R minus 1 extension perhaps = 13+6R

But if someone asks me to run this position in a lightflash of a second
i already have turned off nullmove after which is it much faster to
find this :)

Fullwidth:
Bc5+  1
Kc8   2
Ba7   3
a6    4
Kd2   5
a5    6
Kc3   7
a4    8
Kb2   9
a3+   10
Ka2   11
kd8   12
in qsearch Rh8 and xa8.

So fullwidth it's 12 ply minus 2 check extensions = 11 ply.

Best regards,
Vincent

>Hi!
>
>I ran the JenoBan endgame test suite which I got from Lyapko Georges web server
>(http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/jenoban.htm). This is position #79 (the id tag
>is missing in the epd file from this server):
>
>r2k1B2/7R/p7/8/8/8/8/4K3 w - - bm Bc5; (JenoBan_TofE) #79 white_wins
>
>[D]r2k1B2/7R/p7/8/8/8/8/4K3 w - -
>
>Hossa switches between Bb4 and Bc5 but both with a drawish score. Crafty prefers
>Bd6 on my machine, also with a drawish score. Can someone please explain why Bc5
>is the best move here and how it wins? Or is this position broken?
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.



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