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Subject: Re: Endgame Test Position Anand vs Topalov

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:37:36 02/25/05

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On February 25, 2005 at 10:20:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 25, 2005 at 02:12:45, Tony Nichols wrote:
>
>>On February 25, 2005 at 00:00:44, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>Does your program find Be2+!....?
>>>
>>>[D]8/8/8/1k6/4p1B1/8/P2K1p2/8 w - - 0 56
>>>
>>>Terry
>>
>>Good Test
>>Shredder 9 at 35 ply likes Ke2+-
>>Junior 9 at 31 ply likes Ke2 +/-
>>Fritz 8 at 24 ply likes Ke2 +/-
>>Hiarcs 9 at 19 ply likes Ke2 +/-
>>surprisingly Fritz 5.32 finds Be2 at 15 ply! It also shows that Bh3 also wins.
>>Crafty 19.01 also finds Be2
>>Regards
>>Tony
>
>
>This is not that hard:
>
>               20    13.69   0.01   1. Ke2 e3 2. Bh3 Kb4 3. Kxe3 <EGTB>
>                                    (s=6)
>               20    18.05   0.29   1. Be2+ Kb4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 e3 4.
>                                    Ka1 Kb4 5. Kb2 Ka4 6. a3 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. Kb4 Kc6 9. a4 Kb6 10. a5+ Kb7
>                                    11. a6+ Ka7 12. Kc5 (s=3)
>               20->  18.63   0.29   1. Be2+ Kb4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 e3 4.
>                                    Ka1 Kb4 5. Kb2 Ka4 6. a3 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. Kb4 Kc6 9. a4 Kb6 10. a5+ Kb7
>                                    11. a6+ Ka7 12. Kc5 (s=6)
>               21    19.91   0.31   1. Be2+ Kb4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 e3 4.
>                                    Ka1 Kb4 5. Kb2 Ka4 6. a3 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. Kb4 Kc6 9. a4 Kb6 10. a5+ Ka7
>                                    11. Kc5 Kb7 12. Kd6 (s=5)
>               21->  27.07   0.31   1. Be2+ Kb4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 e3 4.
>                                    Ka1 Kb4 5. Kb2 Ka4 6. a3 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. Kb4 Kc6 9. a4 Kb6 10. a5+ Ka7
>                                    11. Kc5 Kb7 12. Kd6 (s=6)
>                22    29.05   0.53   1. Be2+ Kb4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 e3 4.
>                                    Ka1 Kb4 5. Kb2 Ka4 6. a3 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. Kb4 Kc6 9. a4 Kd5 10. a5 Kd6
>                                    11. a6 Kc6 12. Kc4 <HT> (s=5)
>               22->  44.20   0.53   1. Be2+ Kb4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 e3 4.
>                                    Ka1 Kb4 5. Kb2 Ka4 6. a3 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. Kb4 Kc6 9. a4 Kd5 10. a5 Kd6
>                                    11. a6 Kc6 12. Kc4 <HT> (s=5)
>               23    46.02     +1   1. Be2+!!
>               23    46.47     +3   1. Be2+!!
>               23    47.61     +M   1. Be2+!!
>               23     1:29   6.66   1. Be2+ Ka4 2. Kc1 Ka3 3. Kb1 Ka4 4.
>                                    Kb2 Kb4 5. a3+ Ka4 6. Bc4 Ka5 7. Kb3
>                                    Kb6 8. a4 Ka5 9. Bf1 Kb6 10. Kb4 Kc6
>                                    11. Be2 Kd5 12. a5 Kd4 <HT> (s=4)
>
>Some might be confused as the 5 piece egtb's will lead them to play Ke2 with a
>draw score if they think white is losing otherwise...

Not everyone has the KBP vs KP tablebases.

I tested shredder9 and it could not find it after 20 minutes but the KBP vs KP
tablebases was not intalled on the machine.

I have only part of the tablebases in my machine(all the 5 piece tablebases no
pawn and some important 5 piece tablebases with pawns like KPP vs KP or KRP vs
KR but not KBP vs KP)

Uri



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