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Subject: Re: pawn race position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:11:25 06/05/02

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On June 05, 2002 at 10:27:28, Jon Dart wrote:

>Recently Arasan had this position in a game:
>
>[D] 8/8/1p5P/2b2P2/7K/8/1k6/8/ b - -
>
>Crafty evaluates this statically as won for White, which is correct. Arasan's
>pawn race code doesn't currently cover this case, although it would evaluate it
>correctly if there was no Black bishop, and it sees pretty quickly in the search
>what the situation is. But in the game, it exchanged into this lost position, as
>it couldn't search deep enough to see the consequences.
>
>I'm wondering how well other programs evaluate this.

Beowulf:

[1]W > setboard 8/8/1p5P/2b2P2/7K/8/1k6/8 b - -
[1]B > go
[1]B >
Current Position = 0.40
Number of Possible Moves = 18

  6    -42      62      18414   Ka2 f6 Bd4 f7 Bf2+ Kg5 Bc5
  6      3      66      19271   Bd4 Kg5 Kc2 h7 Be3+ Kf6 Bd4+ Ke6 Kd3
  7    -26?    114      31294   Bd4 Kg5 Kb3 h7 Bh8
  7    -62     229      68038   Bd4 Kg5 b5 f6 Be3+ Kg6 Bd4
  7    -18     240      72788   Be3 h7 Bd4 Kg5 Bh8 f6 Kc3
  8    -48?    270      81019   Be3 h7 Ka1 Kg4 Bd4 Kg5 Bh8 Kf4
  8    -52     470     161133   Be3 h7 Bd4 Kg5 Bh8 f6 Kb1
  9    -86?    518     186362   Be3 h7 Bc5 Kg4 Ka3 Kg5 Be3+ Kg6 Kb2 h8q+ Ka3
  9    -83     811     370770   Be3 Kh5 Bc5 h7 Bf8 Kg5 Kb3 f6 Kc2 h8q Kb3 Qxf8
 10   -113?    838     394189   Be3 Kh5 Bd4 Kg6 Bh8 f6 b5 h7 Kb1 f7 Bg7
 10   -763    1177     665289   Be3 Kh5 Bd4 Kg6 b5 f6 b4 h7 Kc3 h8q b3
 11   -792?   2159    1443367   Be3 Kh5 Bd4 Kg6 b5 f6 b4 h7 Bf2 h8q Kc2
 11   -806    3249    2424079   Be3 Kh5 Bd4 Kg6 b5 f6 b4 f7 b3 f8q Kc2 Qf3
 12   -835?   4655    3903415   Be3 Kh5 Bd4 Kg6 b5 f6 b4 f7 Bh8 f8q Ka3 Qxh8
 12   -835    9833    7118370   Be3 Kh5 Bd4 Kg5 Be3+ Kg6 b5 f6 b4 h7 Bd4 h8q Kb1
 f7 Bxh8 f8q
 13   -864?  11056    9086280   Be3 h7 Bd4 Kg5 Be3+ Kg6 Bd4 f6 Bc5 h8q b5 Kg5 Ka
3 f7 Be7+ Kh5 Bc5 Qc3+ Ka4 Qxc5
 13  -1223   17660   13908118   Be3 h7 Bd4 Kg5 Be3+ Kg6 Bd4 f6 Kc3 h8q Kc4 f7 Kd
5 f8q b5 Qxd4+
 14  -1252?  32633   25227999   Be3 h7 Bd4 Kg5 Bh8 f6 b5 f7 Be5 h8q Kc2 f8q Bd6
Qxd6

Pure eval:

[1]W > setboard 8/8/1p5P/2b2P2/7K/8/1k6/8 b - -
[1]B > eval
Current Position
----------------

White Points: 2
Black Points: 4
(Black is Ahead by 2 Pts)

Static Analysis Score
Black is Ahead by 0.40 Pawns



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