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Subject: Re: Testposition - Endgame

Author: Koundinya Veluri

Date: 14:56:06 03/15/03

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On March 15, 2003 at 12:33:38, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

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>[D]q7/8/5p1p/k1pBpPpP/1p1pP1P1/1P1P4/1KP5/8 b - - 0 1
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>What moves your Program?
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>Only win is 1...Qxd5!
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>After 1...Qe8 with Idea  Qxh5! white can play 1...Kc1!
>
>Eduard

King of Kings 2.10 on my P4 1.7 with 68 MB hash:

20     626     1091         4967712      Qa7 Bc4 Kb6 Kb1 Qa3 Bf7 Qa6 Bd5 Qa5
                                         Kb2 Qa3+ Kb1 Kc7 Bc4 Qa7 Be6 Kb6 Bc4
20     626     1218         5549504      Qa7 Bc4 Kb6 Kb1 Qa3 Bf7 Qa6 Bd5 Qa5
                                         Kb2 Ka7 Bc4 Qa3+ Kb1 Kb8 Bd5 Kc7 Bc4
                                         Qa6 Bxa6
21     626     1584         7185953      Qa7 Bc4 Kb6 Kb1 Qa3 Bf7 Qa6 Bd5 Qa5
                                         Kb2 Ka7 Bc4 Qa3+ Kb1 Kb8 Bd5 Kc7 Bc4
                                         Qa6 Bxa6
21     626     1764         7998573      Qa7 Bc4 Kb6 Kb1 Qa3 Bf7 Qa6 Bd5 Qa5
                                         Kb2 Ka7 Bc4 Qa3+ Kb1 Kb8 Bd5 Kc7 Bc4
                                         Qa8 Be6 Qa7
21     627     2130         9595286 [+=] Qxd5 exd5
21     676     2193         9861358 [++] Qxd5 exd5 Kb6 Ka2 Kc7 Kb2 Kd6 Kc1
                                         Kxd5 Kd2 e4 dxe4+ Kxe4 Ke2 d3+ cxd3+
                                         Kf4 Kf2 Kxg4 Kg2 Kxf5 Kf3 g4+ Ke2 Kf4
21     690     3582        15947761      Qxd5 exd5 Kb6 Kc1 Kc7 Kd2 Kd6 Ke2
                                         Kxd5 Kf3 e4+ Kf2 Ke5 Kg3 exd3 cxd3 c4
                                         dxc4 d3 Kf2 Kd4 Ke1
22     690     3927        17526138      Qxd5 exd5 Kb6 Kc1 Kc7 Kd2 Kd6 Ke2
                                         Kxd5 Kf3 e4+ Kf2 Ke5 Kg3 exd3 cxd3 c4
                                         dxc4 d3 Kf2 Kd4 Ke1
22     740     4170        18536048 [++] Qxd5 exd5 Kb6 Kc1 Kc7 Kd2 Kd6 Ke2
                                         Kxd5 Kf3 e4+ Kf2 e3+ Kg2 e2 Kf2 e1=Q+
                                         Kxe1 Ke5 Kf2 Kf4 Kg1 Kxg4 Kg2 Kxf5
                                         Kf3 g4+ Ke2
22     940     4299        19119510 [++] Qxd5 exd5 Kb6 Kc1 Kc7 Kd2 Kd6 Ke2
                                         Kxd5 Kf3 e4+ Kf2 e3+ Kg2 e2 Kf2 e1=Q+
                                         Kxe1 Ke5 Kf2 Kf4 Kg1 Kxg4 Kg2 Kxf5
                                         Kf2 Kf4
22     984     6241        27527940      Qxd5 exd5 Kb6 Kc1 Kc7 Kd2 Kd6 Ke2
                                         Kxd5 Kf3 e4+ Kf2 e3+ Kg2 e2 Kf2 e1=Q+
                                         Kxe1 Ke5 Kf2 Kf4 Kg1 Kxg4 Kg2 Kxf5
                                         Kf3 g4+ Kg3

It gets the move fairly quickly but usually it takes much longer for it to fail
high. This time it was lucky with the hashtable.

Koundinya



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