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Subject: Re: Who can solve this stupidly easy position...

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 14:04:30 07/21/02

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On July 18, 2002 at 19:01:25, Omid David wrote:

>Which program can declare a draw in the following position:
>
>8/4k3/8/p1p1p1p1/P1P1P1P1/8/2B1K3/8 w

The output from Hossa got me thinking about these positions and I added some
experimental blocked position detection code to monsoon.  Here's the result from
your position:

 1u   +2.65  00:00:00.01  7            PV= 1. Kd3 <+3.00>
 1u   +2.82  00:00:00.02  9            PV= 1. Ke3 <+3.00>
 1.   +2.82  00:00:00.03  15           PV= 1. Ke3 <+3.00>
 2.   +2.61  00:00:00.05  63           PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 <+3.00>
 3.   +2.67  00:00:00.07  144          PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd3 <+3.00>
 4.   +2.67  00:00:00.10  409          PV= 1. Ke3 Ke6 2. Bd3 Kd6 <+3.00>
 5u   +2.67  00:00:00.12  1363         PV= 1. Bd3 Ke6 2. Kf3 Kd6 3. Ke3 <+3.00>
 5.   +2.67  00:00:00.12  1363         PV= 1. Bd3 Ke6 2. Kf3 Kd6 3. Ke3 <+3.00>
 6u   +2.69  00:00:00.13  2761         PV= 1. Ke3 Ke6 [zug] 2. Bd1 Ke7 3. Bf3
                                        > Kd6 4. Kd3 <+3.00>
 6.   +2.69  00:00:00.15  3041         PV= 1. Ke3 Ke6 [zug] 2. Bd1 Ke7 3. Bf3
                                        > Kd6 4. Kd3 <+3.00>
 7.   +2.69  00:00:00.18  3859         PV= 1. Ke3 Ke6 [TT: Bd1 Ke7 ...]
 8.   +2.71  00:00:00.20  6310         PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Bg2 Ke6 <+3.00>
 9.   +2.71  00:00:00.23  9075         PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd7
                                        > 4. Bg2 [zug] Kd6 5. Kd3 Ke6 <+3.00>
10.   +2.71  00:00:00.26  12384        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd7
                                        > 4. Bg2 [TT: Kd6 Kd3 Ke6 ...]
11.   +2.69  00:00:00.30  21986        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd7
                                        > 4. Bg2 Ke7 5. Kd3 [zug] Ke6 6.
                                        > Bf3 Kd6 <+3.00>
12.   +2.69  00:00:00.34  28129        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd7
                                        > 4. Bg2 Ke7 5. Kd3 [TT: Ke6 Bf3
                                        > Kd7 Ke2 ...]
13-   +0.00  00:00:00.96  37487        --
13.   +0.00  00:00:00.99  40083        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Kd3 Kc6 5. Ke2 Kd6 6. Ke3 Kd7
                                        > 7. Kd3 <+3.00>
14.   +0.00  00:00:01.03  51017        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Kd3 Kc6 5. Ke2 Kd6 6. Ke3 Kc6
                                        > 7. Kd3 Kd6 <+3.00>
15.   +0.00  00:00:01.08  64220        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Kd3 Kc6 5. Ke2 Kd6 6. Ke3 Kc6
                                        > 7. Kd3 Kd6 8. Be2 <+3.00>
16.   +0.00  00:00:01.13  80884        PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Kd3 Kc6 5. Ke2 Kd6 6. Ke3 Kc6
                                        > 7. Be2 Kd6 8. Kd3 Kc6 <+3.00>
17.   +0.00  00:00:01.19  109752       PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Kd3 Kc6 5. Ke2 Kd6 6. Ke3 Kc6
                                        > 7. Kd3 Kd6 8. Be2 Kc6 9. Bf3
                                        > [DRAW/REP]
18.   +0.00  00:00:01.28  152055       PV= 1. Ke3 Kd6 2. Bd1 Kc6 3. Bf3 Kd6
                                        > 4. Be2 Kc6 5. Bd3 Kd6 6. Be2
                                        > [DRAW/REP]

(and so on...)

Scott



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