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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