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Subject: Re: puzzling endgame

Author: Colin Frayn

Date: 14:00:03 03/03/02

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On March 03, 2002 at 15:44:41, Jon Dart wrote:

>Recently Arasan had this position against Gandalf on ICC:
>
>[D] 8/p5kp/1pBnP1p1/8/8/P3P3/4K2P/8 w - -
>
>Arasan played e7? here and lost. It had limited time here: it switches
>off e7 pretty quickly, and prefers Kd3, but continues to give White a
>positive score.
>
>On the other hand, a variety of other programs I've tried (Crafty,
>Hiarcs 7, and Pharaon) play e4 here with a negative score for White.

Well Beowulf plays e4, but still thinks white is slightly better.  However, I
tend to agree with GCP's analysis and I think Black is better.  This might be an
interesting position to test.  I'll see if I can fix the eval.

[1]W > comp
Current Position = 0.78
Number of Possible Moves = 23

  9     67      64     134306   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 h6 Kd4 a5
 10     58     102     229582   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 Nb7 Kc4 Nc5 Kd5 a6
 11     79     246     557119   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 a5 Kd4 b5 e5 Nf5+ Kd5 b4
 12     72     444    1071974   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 b5 Kd4 a6 e5 Nf5+ Ke4 a5 Kf4
 13     80    1005    2575700   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 b5 Kd4 a6 h3 a5 e5 Nf5+ Kd5
b4
 14     67    3408    8731790   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 h6 Kd4 b5 e5 Nf5+ Kc5 Ne3
Kxb5 Ng4 h4
 14     67    6000   14998350   e4 Kf8 Kd3 Ke7 Bd7 h6 Kd4 b5 e5 Nf5+ Kc5 Ne3
Kxb5 Ng4 h4

Search Time : 60.01 Seconds
Total Nodes Searched   : 14998350  (66.9% Qui)
Total Nodes Evaluated  : 10027183
Cuts       : Delta    68423  : SEE      122611  : Mate          0
           : Razor   483654  : Eval    4375197
Extensions : Check   481740  : OneRep    10329  : CMThreat     16
           : Pawn    457058  : Recap     30018  : RevCheck  84680
Hash Stores (Size) : 2456892  (4194301)
Hash Probes (Hits) : 11972917  (4817007)
EGTB Probes (Hits) : 0  (0)
Move Ordering      : 83.3%
Best Move = e4



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