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Subject: Re: The Frenzee Report

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 10:18:28 01/21/03

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On January 21, 2003 at 06:20:27, Sune Fischer wrote:

>Frenzee with it's new killer extensions is not that easy to kill

What's a killer extension?

>Round 7: Arasan - Frenzee
>
>It was a fairly open game, most pieces traded off early. Arasan seemed to hold
>the advantage and I was sure Arasan had a win here:
>
>[D] 8/6n1/2k1ppP1/P7/P2K1P1p/8/8/6N1 w - - 0 49
>
>As a human I would have sacrified the a pawns to get my king down below the
>black pawns.

I think it quite possible Arasan misplayed this at some point, but I'm not sure
this is the point. Arasan likes Ke3 basically forever: it's score drops a bit if
I let it search long, but it still thinks it is well ahead. I fed the same
position to Crafty with 5-man TBs and let it think for 40 minutes. Crafty likes
Nh3 here. It failed low near the end of the search with a score of +1.30 (quite
a bit lower than what Arasan is getting), but didn't select another move. Crafty
searched over 2 billion nodes here!

Analyzing the endgame from this point forward would be interesting, and might
point up an error.

--Jon



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