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

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 04:38:51 08/21/03

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On August 21, 2003 at 07:18:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

I'm impressed! You have a very sharp eye Uri! I'm afraid I embarassed myself on
this one. Dang!



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