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Subject: Re: Test your passed-pawn evaluation function!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:21:13 01/13/04

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On January 13, 2004 at 05:18:15, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote:

>In this position you can find several passed pawns for both sides (this is
>particularly hard for my engine), plus three connected passed pawns after the
>sacrifice 1. Rxe7, which is an obvious move to consider for human players.
>How much is worth 3 connected passed pawns in the 5th and 6th versus a rook
>here?
>
>[d]3k2r1/r3p2R/4P1b1/2PP1p2/p5p1/8/1B6/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
>
>Does your engine find this move?
>(Mine doesn't. My passed-pawn goes mad giving extreme values for both sides
>during eval, making the search oscillate from one move to another all the time)
>
>Jaime

It takes Crafty 11 seconds on my dual xeon 2.8 box:

               13     7.89  -0.66   1. Be5 f4 2. Rh4 Bd3 3. Bxf4 Ra5 4.
                                    Ra1 a3 5. c6 Be4 6. Be3 Ra6 7. Rd1
               13    11.30     ++   1. Rxe7!!
               13    17.02  -0.09   1. Rxe7 Kxe7 2. d6+ Kd8 3. c6 Be8 4.
                                    Bf6+ Kc8 5. Rc1 Ra8 6. d7+ Kc7 7. Be5+
                                    Kb6 8. c7 Bxd7 9. exd7 Kb7 10. d8=B
               13->  17.03  -0.09   1. Rxe7 Kxe7 2. d6+ Kd8 3. c6 Be8 4.
                                    Bf6+ Kc8 5. Rc1 Ra8 6. d7+ Kc7 7. Be5+
                                    Kb6 8. c7 Bxd7 9. exd7 Kb7 10. d8=B
                                    (s=2)
               14    19.87     ++   1. Rxe7!!
               14    23.38   0.76   1. Rxe7 Kxe7 2. d6+ Kd8 3. c6 Be8 4.
                                    Bf6+ Kc8 5. Rc1 Bxc6 6. Rxc6+ Kb8 7.
                                    d7 a3 8. Rd6 Rc7 9. d8=Q+ Rxd8 10.
                                    Bxd8
               14->  24.68   0.76   1. Rxe7 Kxe7 2. d6+ Kd8 3. c6 Be8 4.
                                    Bf6+ Kc8 5. Rc1 Bxc6 6. Rxc6+ Kb8 7.
                                    d7 a3 8. Rd6 Rc7 9. d8=Q+ Rxd8 10.
                                    Bxd8



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