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Subject: Re: Test position: wrong bishop

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:35:50 02/28/03

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On February 28, 2003 at 04:29:38, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>This is a position from Hossa - Postmodernist played at ICC:
>
>[D]8/8/8/4K1k1/p2P4/P6b/8/8 w - - 0 68
>
>Does your engine see that this is a draw? Hossa knew it but PM had a constant
>score of 2.81 and was happy when Hossa exchanged into this endgame. Maybe
>white's extra pawn[s] did confuse him.
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.

Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733, evaluates this as "drawish" after two seconds:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	4/8	-0.62	23247		68.d5 Bd7 69.Kd6 Bf5 70.Kc7 Kf6
					71.d6 Ke6 72.d7
0:01	5/9	-0.40	41479		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kf6 Kf3 70.d6 Ke4
					71.Ke7 Kd5 72.d7 Bxd7 73.Kxd7
0:02	6/10	-0.08	68683		68.d5 Kg4 69.d6 Kf3 70.Kd4 Bd7
					71.Kc3 Ke4 72.Kb2 Bf5
0:02	7/11	-0.08	80991		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4
0:02	8/12	-0.08	96624		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4
0:03	9/13	-0.08	125052		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4
0:03	10/14	-0.08	171258		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4
0:04	11/15	-0.08	251323		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4
0:05	12/16	-0.08	399256		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4 72.Kc3 Kxd5 73.Kd3 Bf5+
					74.Kc3 Bc2 75.Kb2 Kc4
0:06	13/17	-0.08	556128		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4 72.Kc3 Kxd5 73.Kd3 Bf5+
					74.Kc3 Bc2 75.Kb2 Kc4
0:07	14/18	-0.08	759414		68.d5 Kg4 69.Kd4 Kf3 70.Kc3 Bd7
					71.Kb2 Ke4 72.Kc3 Kxd5 73.Kd3 Bf5+
					74.Kc3 Bc2 75.Kb2 Kc4

jm



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