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Subject: Re: Testposition (endgame pawns vs. bishop)

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 13:54:46 08/26/02

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On August 26, 2002 at 16:42:17, John Merlino wrote:

>On August 26, 2002 at 16:19:51, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On August 26, 2002 at 15:19:18, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>
>>>[D]8/4k3/1P3pP1/3b1P1p/7P/3K4/8/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Black to move. What play your program?
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Eduard
>>
>>Chessmaster 9000, on a PIII-600, prefers Bb7 after 10 seconds, and sticks with
>>it until just after 30 minutes, when it switches to Kd7. However, since it spent
>>quite a bit of time on the sacrifice Be6, I suspect that may be the answer you
>>are looking for, yes?:
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>0:00	4/8	0.75	19605		1...Kf8 2.Kd4 Bb7 3.Kc5 Ke7 4.Kc4
>>					Kf8 5.Kd4
>>0:00	4/8	0.00	26766		1...Kd6 2.Kd4 Bg8 3.Ke3 Kc6 4.Kd4
>>					Kd6
>>0:00	5/9	0.00	34752		1...Kd6 2.Kd4 Bg8 3.Ke3 Kc6 4.Kd4
>>					Kd6
>>0:00	6/10	0.00	53739		1...Kd6 2.Kd4 Bg8 3.b7 Kc7 4.Kc5
>>					Bb3 5.Kd4 Bg8
>>0:01	6/10	-0.37	76842		1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.Kd3 Kc5 4.b7
>>					Bxb7 5.Ke3 Kd6 6.Kd4 Bd5
>>0:01	7/11	0.00	108765		1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Bf7 6.b8=Q+ Kxb8 7.Kd6
>>					Bc4 8.Ke7
>>0:02	8/12	0.78	192288		1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Kxb7 6.Kd6 Kb6 7.Ke7
>>					Kc5 8.Kxf6 Kd6
>>0:03	9/13	0.78	322204		1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Kxb7 6.Kd6 Kb6 7.Ke7
>>					Kc5 8.Kxf6 Kd6
>>0:05	10/14	0.61	493129		1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Kxb7 6.Kd6 Kb6 7.Ke7
>>					Kc5 8.Kxf6 Kd6 9.Kg6
>>0:08	11/15	1.10	801062		1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Kxb7 6.Kd6 Kb6 7.Ke7
>>					Kc7 8.Kxf6 Kd7 9.Kg6 Ke8 10.f6
>>0:10	11/15	0.59	1027983		1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.Kd4 Ba6 6.Kc3 Bb7 7.Kb4 Bc8
>>					8.Kb5 Ke8 9.Kc6 Bxf5
>>0:14	12/16	0.63	1448300		1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.Kd4 Ba6 6.Kc3 Bb7 7.Kb2 Be4
>>					8.Ka3 Bb7 9.Kb4 Kf8
>>0:22	13/17	0.59	2203293		1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.Kd4 Ba6 6.Kc3 Kf8 7.Kb4 Ke7
>>					8.Ka5 Bc8 9.Kb5 Ke8 10.Kc6 Bxf5
>>0:39	14/18	0.62	3871924		1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.Kd4 Ba6 6.Kc3 Kf8 7.Kb4 Ke7
>>					8.Kb3 Bb7 9.Ka4 Ke8 10.Kb4 Kf8
>>1:18	15/19	0.60	7573448		1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.Kd4 Ba6 6.Kc3 Kf8 7.Kb4 Ke7
>>					8.Ka3 Bc8 9.Kb3 Kf8 10.Kc4 Kg8
>>					11.Kd5 Bxf5
>>2:45	16/20	0.80	15819958	1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.g7 Kf7 6.Kd6 Kxg7 7.Ke7 Ba6
>>					8.Ke6 Kf8 9.Kxf6 Bb7 10.Kg6 Bf3
>>					11.f6 Kg8 12.f7+ Kf8
>>6:59	17/21	0.60	39621032	1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.g7 Kf7 6.Kd6 Kxg7 7.Ke7 Ba6
>>					8.Ke6 Kf8 9.Kxf6 Bb7 10.Ke6 Ke8
>>					11.f6 Be4 12.f7+ Kf8 13.Ke5 Bb7
>>13:48	18/22	0.67	78551829	1...Bb7 2.Kd4 Bc8 3.Kd5 Bb7+ 4.Kc5
>>					Bc8 5.Kd4 Ba6 6.Kc3 Kf8 7.Kb4 Ke7
>>					8.Kb3 Kf8 9.Kc3 Bc8 10.Kb4 Ke7
>>					11.Kc5 Bb7 12.Kb5 Kf8
>>30:41	18/22	0.46	170185924	1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Kxb7 6.Kd6 Bh7 7.Kd7
>>					Bxf5+ 8.Ke7 Bh7 9.Kxf6 Kc6 10.Kg5
>>					Kd7 11.Kxh5 Ke8 12.Kh6 Bg8 13.Kg6
>>					Ke7
>>32:04	19/23	0.46	178373509	1...Kd7 2.Kd4 Kd6 3.g7 Bg8 4.b7
>>					Kc7 5.Kc5 Kxb7 6.Kd6 Bh7 7.Kd7
>>					Bxf5+ 8.Ke7 Bh7 9.Kxf6 Kc6 10.Kg5
>>					Kd7 11.Kxh5 Ke8 12.Kh6 Bg8 13.Kg6
>>					Ke7 14.h5
>>
>>jm
>
>Specifically speaking, after the above PV for Kd7 at depth 23, CM9000 has now
>been looking at Be6 for over 25 minutes. Most of the time has been spent on this
>line:
>
>1...Be6 2.fxe6 f5 3.Kd4 f4 4.b7 f3 5.b8=Q f2 6.Kc5 f1=Q 7.Qd6+ Kf6 8.g7 Qf2+
>
>It has spent close to fifteen minutes on that line alone.... I will post when it
>finishes this depth.
>
>jm


  This looks very strange... Just look at the position after 1.-Be6 2.fxe6 f5
  3.g7...

  /S



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