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Subject: Re: Why did Bareev lose? (Patzer UCI Leiden)

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 17:09:06 04/07/04

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On April 07, 2004 at 18:52:37, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 07, 2004 at 17:42:07, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>Phantastic by Patzer. I wonder, what magic he is doing here. I first thought,
>>very aggressively extending pawn endgame positions (when the root position is
>>not a pawn endgame) should help. But it is still rather deep, when the Qs are
>>already from the board. Very impressive.
>
>Seems to work to aggressively extend pawn endgames. I added about 4 lines of
>code to Yace. When the root position is not a pawn endgame, and the current
>position is a pawn endgame, extend 1/2 ply. This is additionally to some other
>extension I already have, when trading down to a pawn endgame. Now I get:

Wow it really works.

I couldn't solve the positions you posted, they are really deep, too deep for
frenzee even with this extension. You must have some good eval on the leaves
too.

However I then tried fine70 and got a +9 score in 7 seconds!

19   00:00  2,00   Ka1b1 Ka7b7 Kb1c1 Kb7c7 Kc1d1 Kc7d8 Kd1c2 Kd8c7
20   00:01  2,00   Ka1b1 Ka7b7 Kb1c1 Kb7c7 Kc1d1 Kc7d8 Kd1c2 Kd8c7
21   00:01  2,00   Ka1b1 Ka7b7 Kb1c1 Kb7c7 Kc1d1 Kc7d8 Kd1c2 Kd8c7
22   00:03  4,00   Ka1b1 Ka7b7 Kb1c1 Kb7c7 Kc1d1 Kc7d8 Kd1c2 Kd8c7
23   00:07  9,30   Ka1b1 Ka7b7 Kb1c1 Kb7c7 Kc1d1 Kc7d8 Kd1c2 Kd8c7
24   05:09  9,31   Ka1b1 Ka7b7 Kb1c1 Kb7c7 Kc1d1 Kc7d8 Kd1c2 Kd8c7

at this point the search explodes from 7 seconds to over 5 minutes.
Perhaps not surprising as queens suddenly enter the picture way out a ply ~45
something on the selective lines.

Never the less I've never managed to get above 3.5 on fine 70 :)

-S.



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