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Subject: Re: With tablebases play programs stronger!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:31:16 04/24/02

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On April 24, 2002 at 18:18:08, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

>I played on the fritzserver a game comp.- comp. and in this position
>I seen, that the Tablebases here shaw only draw-move for white with Bd7!
>
>I'm not sure that all Grandmasters this move woult plays?
>
>(german: Ich bin mir nicht sicher dass alle Grossmeister disesen Zug sehen
>wuerden)
>
>[D]8/5k2/2B5/8/6pK/8/8/6r1 w - - 0 0
>
>TBs says: Bd7 is only dwaw move Kg5 is a mate in 37 moves :)
>
>Eduard

The question is would the comps be able to draw the game without tablebases.
Chessmaster, for one, does know how to draw this position. On a PIII-600, after
1:31, CM shows a "drawing score", even though it would play Bd7 up until then
(apart from a 2-second glitch around depth 9 ;-)

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	2/3	-4.01	778		1.Kg5 Ke6 2.Kf4 Rc1
0:00	2/3	-3.79	1006		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3
0:00	3/4	-3.76	1589		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bc6 Ke6 3.Kg4
0:00	4/5	-3.90	4486		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bc6 Ke6 3.Bf3 Ke5
0:00	5/6	-3.89	11296		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bc6 Ke6 3.Bf3 Ke5 4.Kg4
0:00	6/7	-3.89	23434		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bc6 Ke6 3.Bf3 Ke5 4.Kg4
0:01	7/8	-3.82	55129		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bc6 Ke6 3.Kg4 Ke5 4.Bf3
					g2
0:01	8/9	-3.87	151079		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Ke5 4.Kf3
					Kd4 5.Kf4 g2
0:02	8/9	-3.82	184216		1.Kg5 Kg7 2.Be4 Re1 3.Kf4 Kf6 4.Bg2
					Re2 5.Bd5
0:02	9/10	-3.77	297651		1.Kg5 Ke6 2.Kf4 Rc1 3.Bb5 Rb1 4.Bc4+
					Kf6 5.Be2 Rb4+ 6.Kg3 Kf5
0:04	10/11	-3.87	484410		1.Kg5 Ke6 2.Kf4 Kd6 3.Be4 Kc5 4.Bb7
					Kd4 5.Bc8 g3 6.Bh3 g2
0:04	10/11	-3.67	642406		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kf6 6.Kf4
0:06	11/12	-3.72	913626		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kh6 6.Kh4 Kg6
0:09	12/13	-3.70	1364338		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kf6 6.Kf4 g2 7.Kf3
0:13	13/14	-3.64	2091628		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kf6 6.Kf4 Kg6 7.Kg4 g2
					8.Kf3
0:20	14/15	-3.64	3183625		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kf6 6.Kf4 Kg6 7.Kg4 g2
					8.Kf3
0:29	15/16	-3.46	4642729		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kf6 6.Kf4 Kg6 7.Kg4 Kh6
					8.Kh4 Kh7
0:42	16/17	-3.60	6807364		1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kg7 5.Kg4 Kf6 6.Kf4 Kg6 7.Kg4 Kg7
					8.Kf3 Kf7 9.Kf4 g2
1:31	17/18	-0.69	15882253	1.Bd7 g3 2.Bh3 Kf6 3.Kg4 Kg6 4.Kh4
					Kf7 5.Kh5 Ke7 6.Kg5 Kd6 7.Kg4 Kc5
					8.Kf3 Rc1 9.Kxg3 Rc3+ 10.Kg4 Kd4

jm



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