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

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:24:39 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

Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality on a P4-2.4, needs 2:22 to find the rook
sacrifice. But the eval is not "winning":

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/6	-0.90	17024		1.Rh4 a3 2.Be5 a2 3.Rc1 Ra5 4.Kg2
					Ra3
0:00	1/6	-0.79	20311		1.Rh2 g3 2.Rd2 a3 3.Be5 a2 4.Rb2
0:00	1/7	-0.73	46386		1.Rh2 g3 2.Rh4 a3 3.Be5 Be8 4.Rb1
0:00	1/8	-0.63	122318		1.Rh2 f4 2.Be5 Ra5 3.Rc1 Be4 4.Rb2
					Ra8
0:02	1/9	-0.71	412471		1.Rh2 f4 2.Be5 Ra5 3.c6 a3 4.Bxf4
					Rxd5 5.c7+ Kc8 6.Rc1
0:03	1/9	-0.67	658554		1.Be5 f4 2.Rh4 Ra5 3.c6 Bd3 4.d6
					exd6 5.e7+ Kc7 6.Bxf4
0:08	1/10	-0.30	1590726		1.Be5 f4 2.Rh2 a3 3.Bxf4 Ra4 4.Bg3
					Be4 5.Rd2 a2 6.Rxa2 Rxa2 7.Rxe4
0:27	1/11	-0.11	4990040		1.Be5 f4 2.Rf7 f3 3.c6 Kc8 4.Rf4
					Ra8 5.Rxg4 a3 6.Rc1 a2
0:48	2/12	0.12	8698365		1.Be5 f4 2.Rf7 f3 3.c6 Kc8 4.Rf4
					Ra8 5.Rxg4 Bh7 6.Rxg8+ Bxg8 7.Re3
					a3 8.Rxf3
1:59	3/13	0.28	21808533	1.Be5 f4 2.Rf7 f3 3.c6 Ra5 4.d6
					exd6 5.Rd7+ Kc8 6.Bxd6 Ra8 7.e7
					a3 8.Rc7+ Kb8
2:22	3/13	0.45	26425117	1.Rxe7 Kxe7 2.d6+ Kd8 3.c6 Be8
					4.Bf6+ Kc8 5.Rc1 Ra8 6.d7+ Kc7
					7.Be5+ Kb6 8.e7 Bxd7 9.cxd7 Kb5
4:07	4/14	0.69	46732938	1.Rxe7 Kxe7 2.d6+ Kd8 3.c6 Be8
					4.Bf6+ Kc8 5.Rc1 Rc7 6.d7+ Bxd7
					7.cxd7+ Kb7 8.Re1 a3 9.d8=Q Rxd8
					10.Bxd8

jm



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