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Subject: Re: How fast million years goes...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:18:47 08/21/03

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On August 21, 2003 at 07:06:20, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On August 21, 2003 at 06:12:12, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>[D]8/1p6/1Pp2N1q/p1Ppk2p/P3p3/3PPpPp/3K1P1P/1R6 w - -
>>
>>From CSS forum: Machine should, within a million hours, be able to find the draw
>>in this position (with Ng4+). But Shredder 7.04 found it in one second!!
>>
>
>It is not a draw. The black queen will penetrate into the white cvamp via a6.
>For the past year I've been working on endgame blockage detection. I noticed
>that Shredder has some very limited form of blockage detection, but it is very
>inaccurate, and in many positions I tried, that inaccurate blockage detection
>wreaked havoc to the search tree.

Wrong

It is a draw
I also believed that it is not a draw but trying to win it
against shredder I got the following game

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "New game"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/1p6/1Pp2N1q/p1Ppk2p/P3p3/3PPpPp/3K1P1P/1R6 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "11"]

1. Ng4+ hxg4 2. d4+ Ke6 3. Rh1 Qf8 4. Ke1 Qa8 5. Kf1 Qa6+ 6.
Kg1 and black cannot make progress

Uri



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