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Subject: Re: Fairly simple endgame position

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 05:23:20 06/07/03

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On June 06, 2003 at 07:47:50, Thomas McBurney wrote:

>On June 06, 2003 at 05:40:21, Lyn Harper wrote:
>
>>  [D]k7/5p2/4pP2/4P3/3P4/8/8/4K3 - - w
>>
>>   Hope the diagram comes out :)
>>  Goood old CM9k does it in pretty short order, without EGDB. About 1min18sec on
>>my Athlon 2400.   But Ruffian, Genius7 and Green Light Chess are stumped ,even
>>after about 10min.
>>   I don't have Fritz or Shredder. The old Chessica got it in over 5min.
>>   How does your proggy do?
>
>That's very interesting.
>
>My winboard engine Kanguruh (written in BASIC) found it in less than a second.
>
>  1    112      25           1  e1d2
>  2    111      25          10  e1d2 a8b7
>  3    112      25          44  e1d2 a8b7 d2e3
>  4    110      25         140  e1d2 a8b7 d2e3 b7c6
>  5    111      24         472  e1d2 a8b7 d2e3 b7c6 e3e4
>  6    111      23        1471  e1d2 a8b7 d2e3 b7c6 e3e4 c6b5
>  7    110      18        5221  e1d2 a8b7 d2e3 b7c6 e3e4 c6b5 d4d5
>  7    110      16        7035  e1f2 a8b7
>  7    110      10       13007  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 e6e5 f7f8 a8a7
>  8    622       8       14867  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8a7 f7f8 e6e5
>  9    704       3       26639  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8b7 f7f8 b7c6 e1d2
> 10    764      45       66371  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8b7 f7f8 b7c6 f8e7
>d5d4
> 11    766     149      174174  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8b7 f7f8 b7c6 f8d8
>c6b5 d8e8 b5a5
> 12    766     563      577212  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8b7 f7f8 b7c6 f8d8
>c6b5 d8e8 b5a5 e8e6
> 13    807    2132     2161586  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8b7 f7f8 b7c6 f8e7
>c6b5 e1d2 b5a5 e7e6
> 14    807    5494     5866649  d4d5 e6d5 e5e6 f7e6 f6f7 a8b7 f7f8 b7c6 f8e7
>c6b5 e7e6 b5c5 e1d2 c5c4
>
>
>My other chess program, Deep BASIC which is written in QB45 surprisingly found
>the correct answer in a second. Not bad for a 16 bit DOS program struggling to
>get 4000 nps on my Athlon 650.   But then changes its mind to Kd2 but still
>shows the pawn exchanges one move later.  After a few more minutes it changes
>its mind again to d5.  Can anybody tell me if Kd2 is still ok if the pawn
>sacrifices are played next move?


I as far as I can tell, Whites first 2 moves can be completely random and still
win easily!


>
>MOVE     TIME    SCORE DEPTH LINE
>
>  1.  ...
>
>  1.       0s     1.11 ( 2) E1D2 A8B7
>  1.       0s    -0.10 ( 3) E1D2 A8B7 D4D5
>  1.       0s     1.11 ( 3) E1D2 A8B7 D2C3
>  1.       0s     1.12 ( 3) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3
>  1.       0s     1.12 ( 4) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7A8
>  1.       0s     1.10 ( 4) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7C6
>  1.       0s    -0.10 ( 5) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7C6 D4D5
>  1.       0s     1.10 ( 5) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7C6 E3F4
>  1.       0s     1.11 ( 5) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7C6 E3E4
>  1.       0s     1.12 ( 6) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7C6 E3E4 C6B7
>  1.       0s     1.11 ( 6) E1D2 A8B7 D2E3 B7C6 E3E4 C6D7
>  1.       1s     7.00 ( 6) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 D5D4
>  1.       1s     6.82 ( 7) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 D5D4 F7F8
>  1.       1s     6.70 ( 7) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 E6E5 F7F8
>  1.       2s     6.70 ( 8) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 E6E5 F7F8 A8B7
>  1.       2s     6.68 ( 8) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 E6E5 F7F8 A8A7
>  1.       5s     7.00 ( 8) E1D2 A8B7 D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 D5D4
>  1.      17s     6.82 ( 9) E1D2 A8B7 D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 D5D4 F7F8
>  1.      17s     6.70 ( 9) E1D2 A8B7 D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 E6E5 F7F8
>  1.     171s     6.69 ( 9) E1D2 A8A7 D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 E6E5 F7F8
>  1.     285s     7.00 ( 9) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 D5D4 F7F8 A8B7 F8G7
>  1.     328s     8.06 (10) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 D5D4 F7F8 A8B7 F8G7 B7A8
>  1.     328s     7.88 (10) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 E6E5 F7F8 A8B7 F8G7 B7A8
>  1.     330s     7.86 (10) D4D5 E6D5 E5E6 F7E6 F6F7 A8B7 F7F8 B7C6 F8E7 D5D4
>
>Cheers,
>Tom



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