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Subject: Re: The Pawn Game revisited...

Author: Paul Byrne

Date: 19:41:31 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 04:43:18, Edward Seid wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 01:00:37, Paul Byrne wrote:
>
>>Anyways, to give you an idea how solvable this game is or isn't,
>>I left it running on this position last night:
>>
>>[D]8/1pppppp1/8/p6p/P6P/8/1PPPPPP1/8 w - - 0 3
>>
>>with this result:
>...
>>mv=e4 e=273 d=24 n=1318190910 t=13610.508
>>mv=e4 e=9969 d=25 n=-1677339015 t=26967.618
>>
>>So about 7.5 hours to solve this.
>
>So according to this result, after 7.5 hours, 25 ply and 1.67 billion nodes, e4
>wins in this position?  Are you 100% certain that e4 wins, or is there a chance
>that a refutation exists at a deeper ply?  And by symmetry, I guess d4 wins
>also?
>Was the engine that produced this result using the 100x speedup trick?

The node count is all wrong -- too big for a 32 bit int.  And I am 99.99% sure
e4 wins (and d4) -- unless I got a really nasty hash collision or something.
And yes, this includes the speedup trick.



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