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Subject: Re: The Frenzee Report

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 10:27:33 01/21/03

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On January 21, 2003 at 13:18:28, Jon Dart wrote:

>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?

haha, well if you run in to one you will know :)

>>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.

Yeah. Grabbing the h-pawn loses the two a-pawns, that's what happened and it
ended draw with both programs hitting the tables.
If white wants to win there must be a different plan, but maybe it really is a
draw?

I still think it was a good game though :)

-S.

>--Jon



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