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Subject: Re: Interesting KRP to KP game, for your program

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 17:22:02 06/12/02

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On June 12, 2002 at 19:59:59, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On June 12, 2002 at 16:46:50, Ferdinand S. Mosca wrote:
>
>>While studying king and pawn ending, I have met this position. Both sides have
>>protected passer, Black's rook is passive while white's rook is looking for
>>weakneses. There is however a nice temporary sacrifice by white that is hidden,
>>which brings the game to a won king and pawn game for white. The resulting KP
>>game is not that easy to evaluate for many programs since either side has no
>>passer, white's king is far from the center, white's pawn at a5 appears to be
>>somewhat over extended and black's pawns are more advanced. There is at least 2
>>solution to this setup, first is to bring the rook to b-file which can
>>simultaneously attacks both the black's king position and the backward black's
>>b-pawn. The second solution is a more straight forward human touch, 51. Rxg7
>>that was played by the great GM Kasparov way back in 1998 on a simultaneous
>>exhibition game against Groshenny.
>>From initial test of some free engines only Yace can do 51. Rxg7. I have no
>>Fritz 7 and Hiarcs 8 at the moment, will somebody also post the analysis of this
>>two strong engines?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Dinan
>>[D]6R1/1p1r2p1/p3k1Pp/P2pP2K/2pP4/2P5/1P6/8 w - - 0 51
>
>
>The engine that solves this ending the fastest is Shredder 6! Shredder 6.02
>takes 2x longer!
>
>Shredder 6 see Rxg7! in approx. 1 min with 64MB of hash on a SLOW P-III 500!
>
>I'm sorry I didn't save the "Readout" and since Shredder "Learns" it will now
>play it instantly.
>
>It surprises me the Shredder 6 beats Shredder 6.02, but whats more surprising is
>the Shredder Classic ver. of Shredder Paderborn can't see Rxg7 after 3+ min.?
>
>Shredder 6 Classic again solves it within a minute, also 64MB for hash.
>
>Could someone who has Shredder 6 do this test again both using the ChessBase
>ver. and the Classic ver., both for the readout and to verify that Shredder 6.02
>CB ver. is slower than Shredder 6 CB ver.; And that Shredder Paderborn Classic
>is a "dud" on this position!
>
>
>Regards,
> Terry


Shredder 6 Classic takes only 17 seconds on my Athlon 1.4G with 128 Meg hash.
The Shredder Paderborn version takes 48 seconds but then loses it to Kg4 untill
3:30 when it picks up Rxg7 again.

Engine: Shredder 6
by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

 16.01	 0:01 	+0.72 	1.Kg4 Rc7 2.Re8+ Re7 3.Rb8 Rc7 4.Rg8 Rd7 5.b4 Rd6 (423.403)
406.7
 17.01	 0:01 	+0.73 	1.Kg4 Rc7 2.Re8+ Re7 3.Rb8 Rc7 4.Rg8 Rd7 5.b4 Rd6 (641.302)
420.2
 18.01	 0:02 	+0.74 	1.Kg4 Rc7 2.Re8+ Re7 3.Rb8 Rc7 4.Rg8 Rd7 5.b4 Rd6 (963.583)
428.0
 19.01	 0:03 	+0.75 	1.Kg4 Rc7 2.Re8+ Re7 3.Rb8 Rc7 4.Rg8 Rd7 5.b4 Rd6
(1.529.957) 435.7
 20.01	 0:05 	+0.76 	1.Kg4 Rc7 2.Re8+ Re7 3.Rb8 Rc7 4.Rg8 Rd7 5.b4 Rd6
(2.539.247) 437.3
 21.01	 0:09 	+0.77 	1.Kg4 Rc7 2.Re8+ Re7 3.Rb8 Rc7 4.Rg8 Rd7 5.b4 Rd6
(4.266.967) 441.6
 21.04	 0:17 	+0.78++	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6
6.g8Q+ Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 b5 9.axb6 a5 10.b4 Kg6 (7.048.041) 402.2
 21.04	 0:18 	+0.81 	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6 6.g8Q+
Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Kg7 Kf5 10.Kf7 Ke4 11.Ke6 b5 12.axb6 Kd3 13.Kxd5 Kc2
14.Kxc4 (7.564.829) 402.6
 22.01	 0:26 	+0.91 	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6 6.g8Q+
Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kd6 10.Kf7 Kd7 11.Kf6 Kd6 12.Kf5 Kc7 13.Ke5 Kd7
14.Kxd5 (10.732.553) 402.9
 23.01	 0:50 	+1.16++	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6
6.g8Q+ Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kf5 10.Kd7 Ke4 11.Kd6 Ke3 12.Kxd5 Kd2
13.Kxc4 b5+ 14.axb6 (19.139.689) 382.7
 23.01	 1:13 	+1.66++	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6
6.g8Q+ Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kf5 10.Kd7 Ke4 11.Kd6 Ke3 12.Kxd5 Kd2
13.Kxc4 b5+ 14.axb6 (28.035.436) 382.7
 23.01	 1:13 	+1.66 	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6 6.g8Q+
Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kf5 10.Kd7 Ke4 11.Kd6 Ke3 12.Kxd5 Kd2 13.Kxc4
b5+ 14.axb6 (28.248.169) 383.5
 24.01	 2:20 	+1.91++	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6
6.g8Q+ Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kf5 10.Kd7 Ke4 11.Kd6 Ke3 12.Kxd5 Kd2
13.Kxc4 b6 (51.420.647) 365.0
 24.01	 3:43 	+2.41++	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6
6.g8Q+ Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kf5 10.Kd7 Ke4 11.Kd6 Ke3 12.Kxd5 Kd2
13.Kxc4 Ke2 (79.793.385) 356.7
 24.01	 3:44 	+2.41 	1.Rxg7 Rxg7 2.Kxh6 Re7 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 Re8 5.e6+ Kxe6 6.g8Q+
Rxg8 7.Kxg8 Kf6 8.Kf8 Ke6 9.Ke8 Kf5 10.Kd7 Ke4 11.Kd6 Ke3 12.Kxd5 Kd2 13.Kxc4
Ke2 (80.227.778) 357.1



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