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Subject: Re: Rook ending Test 3

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:41:10 08/22/02

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On August 22, 2002 at 18:50:39, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
> [D]8/2pr1kp1/p1p5/1p2R2p/5P2/5K2/PPP3PP/8 b - - 0 3
>
> This is ShredderPB-Yace. Here black played 3.-Rd5?? and lost
> the pawn ending. 3.-g6 is a much better try.
>
>
> Test: Avoid 3.-Rd5?? - g6 is much better.
>

Chessmaster 9000 does not avoid Rd5 in a reasonable amount of time on a
PIII-600:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	0.75	968		3...Rd2 4.Rc5 a5 5.Rxc6
0:00	1/3	0.27	1676		3...Rd5 4.b4 Kf6
0:00	1/4	0.27	4393		3...Rd5 4.b4 Kf6 5.Ke4
0:00	1/5	0.32	9819		3...Rd5 4.b4 Rd4 5.a3 Rd5
0:00	1/6	0.26	25689		3...Rd5 4.b4 g6 5.g3 Kf6 6.Ke4
0:01	1/7	0.30	52656		3...Rd5 4.b4 Kf6 5.Ke4 Rd2 6.Rc5
					Re2+ 7.Kf3
0:01	2/8	0.31	113554		3...Rd5 4.b4 g6 5.Ke3 Kf6 6.Ke4
					Rd2 7.Rc5 Re2+ 8.Kf3
0:03	3/9	0.36	333515		3...Rd5 4.b4 g6 5.g3 Kf6 6.Ke4
					Rd2 7.Rc5 Re2+ 8.Kd4 Rd2+ 9.Ke3
0:09	4/10	0.36	898952		3...Rd5 4.b4 Rd4 5.Rxh5 Rxb4 6.Rc5
					Rb2 7.Rxc6 Rxa2 8.Rxc7+ Kf6 9.Ke4
0:23	5/11	0.36	2319832		3...Rd5 4.b4 Rd4 5.a3 Rd5 6.g3
					g6 7.Ke3 Kf6 8.Ke4 Rd2 9.Rc5
1:28	6/12	0.32	8958207		3...Rd5 4.b3 Kf6 5.Ke4 Rd2 6.Rc5
					Rxg2 7.Rxc6+ Ke7 8.Rxc7+ Kd6 9.Ra7
					Rxh2 10.Rxg7 Rxc2
3:07	7/13	0.37	18893934	3...Rd5 4.b3 Kf6 5.Ke4 Rd2 6.Rc5
					Rxg2 7.Rxc6+ Ke7 8.Rxc7+ Kd6 9.Ra7
					Re2+ 10.Kd3 Rxh2 11.Rxg7 Ke6

jm



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