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Subject: Re: Testposition - Endgame 3

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:18:12 03/16/03

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On March 16, 2003 at 06:01:47, Alastair Scott wrote:

>On March 15, 2003 at 13:58:03, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>[D]q7/8/5p1p/k1p1pPpP/1pBpP1P1/1P1P4/2P5/K7 b - - 0 1
>>
>>Black wins, only move is 1...Qe8!
>
>It takes a long time even on an Athlon XP 2400+ with 128MB hash:
>
>Yace Paderborn - 99 seconds (previously Kb6+)
>
>Crafty - 138 seconds (ditto).
>
>It takes, for example, Yace 23 ply to see that a Queen on g1 is better than a
>Queen on a8, and then with only a slightly better score (7.6 as opposed to 7.1),
>although the score starts to accelerate away thereafter (8.3 after 23 ply).
>
>Alastair



Analysis by Fritz 8:

1. -+ (-7.19): 1...Qe8 2.Kb1 Qxh5 3.gxh5 g4 4.Bf7 g3 5.Bg6 g2 6.Kb2 g1Q 7.Bf7
Qe1 8.Bg8 Qc3+ 9.Kb1 Qd2 10.Bf7 Qe1+ 11.Kb2


(Pichard, MyTown 16.03.2003)

Using 128 MB of Hash on my mere Athlon 1.2 GHz




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