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Subject: Re: A quick endgame test...

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:07:46 06/26/02

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On June 26, 2002 at 13:46:03, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Here's a position where postmodernist made a foolish mistake and got squashed by
>crafty:
>
>[D]3R4/5k2/1p1p4/1NbP2pp/2P3P1/P7/5rKP/8 w - -  am Kg3

Chessmaster 9000 needs 7 seconds on a PIII-600 to choose Kh3:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	0.00	665		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+
					4.Kh3
0:00	1/4	0.00	1239		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+
					4.Kh3
0:00	1/5	0.00	3003		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+
					4.Kh3
0:00	1/6	0.00	6178		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+
					4.Kh3
0:00	1/7	0.00	14450		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+
					4.Kh3
0:01	2/8	0.00	80608		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+
					4.Kh3
0:07	3/9	-2.74	511726		1.Kg3 h4+ 2.Kh3 Ra2 3.Nxd6+ Ke7
					4.Re8+ Kxd6 5.Re1 Rxa3+ 6.Kg2 h3+
					7.Kh1 Re3 8.Rd1 Bd4
0:07	3/9	0.00	568408		1.Kh3 Rf3+ 2.Kg2 Rf2+
0:10	4/10	0.00	798991		1.Kh3 Rf3+ 2.Kg2 Rf2+


>PostModernist takes 13 seconds to latch onto Kh3 on my Athlon 1200, but it
>didn't have enough time in this short game. How long does it take your engine to
>see that Kh3 is better? Furthermore, after making the losing error, how long
>does it take your program to find that Black will win:
>
>[D]3R4/5k2/1p1p4/1NbP2pp/2P3P1/P5K1/5r1P/8 b - - 0 1 bm h4

After forcing Kg3, it sees the win for Black in 6 seconds, although it would
choose "the right move" immediately:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	0.00	1911		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+ 4.Kh3
0:00	1/4	0.00	3286		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+ 4.Kh3
0:00	1/5	0.00	6491		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+ 4.Kh3
0:00	1/6	0.00	13268		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+ 4.Kh3
0:01	1/7	0.00	55971		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rf3+ 3.Kg2 Rf2+ 4.Kh3
0:06	2/8	-3.94	433752		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rc2 3.Nxd6+ Ke7 4.Re8+
					Kxd6 5.Re6+ Kd7 6.Re1 Rc3+ 7.Kg2
					Rxc4 8.Re5 Rxg4+ 9.Kf3
0:09	3/9	-4.34	762678		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rc2 3.Nxd6+ Ke7 4.Re8+
					Kxd6 5.Re6+ Kc7 6.Re1 Bd6 7.Rh1
					Rc3+ 8.Kg2 h3+ 9.Kf2 Rxc4 10.Re1
					Rc2+ 11.Kf3 Bxh2
0:19	4/10	-4.43	1746605		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rc2 3.Nxd6+ Ke7 4.Re8+
					Kxd6 5.Re1 Rxc4 6.Re8 Kxd5 7.Rg8
					Rc3+ 8.Kg2 Rc2+ 9.Kh3 Be7 10.a4
0:41	5/11	-4.66	4047208		1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rc2 3.Nxd6+ Ke7 4.Re8+
					Kd7 5.Re1 Bxd6 6.Rh1 Bxa3 7.c5
					Bxc5 8.Rf1 b5 9.Rf7+ Kd6
1:38	6/12	-5.40	10610598	1...h4+ 2.Kh3 Rc2 3.Nxd6+ Ke7 4.Re8+
					Kd7 5.Re1 Bxd6 6.Rh1 Bxa3 7.c5
					Rc3+ 8.Kg2 h3+ 9.Kf2 Bxc5+ 10.Ke2
					Re3+ 11.Kd2 Re5 12.Rf1 Rxd5+ 13.Kc2

jm



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