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Subject: Re: Testposition: stalemate prevention; How many plies & nodes does it take?

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 05:33:47 12/16/02

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On December 16, 2002 at 08:03:04, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>>00:00:23.23 1839kn 13/25/26 ---------------------------------------------------
>>00:00:37.73 3967kn 14/26/27 +0.510 1. b4 Re4+ 2. Kd5 Rd4+
>>                                   3. Ke5 Re4+ 4. Kd6 Rd4+
>>                                   5. Ke6 Re4+ 6. Kf5 Rf4+
>>                                   7. Kg6 Rg4+ 8. Kf7 Rg7+
>>                                   9. Ke6 Rxc7 10. Kd5 Rb7
>>                                   11. Kc5 Re7
>>00:00:48.08 5733kn 14/26/27 +0.843 1. Kc3!
>
>00:00:48.08 5733kn 14/26/27 +0.843 1. Kc3!
>A move like that should give you 2 or 3 pawn points not +0.843.
>Jonathan

The ! after Kc3 indicates that this is a fail high, so the score is a bound. It
says: "The score is at least +0.843". If I let it search a little longer, it
will produce a real score. That was not important here.

/David



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