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Subject: Re: It's a DRAW !

Author: Ross Boyd

Date: 07:15:13 05/12/05

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On May 12, 2005 at 09:23:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 12, 2005 at 09:00:31, Ross Boyd wrote:
>
>>On May 12, 2005 at 07:55:03, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>As soon as either white pawn is captured, 6 man tablebases will tell you it's a
>>>draw.
>>
>>Amazing. A Draw?????!!!!!!
>>
>>Thanks for pointing this out. It doesn't look possible, but I believe you.
>>I wonder how many engines see the draw without 6 men EGTBs?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Ross
>
>Yace cannot even after capturing the pawn

Neither can TRACE. (of course)

>I delete most of the analysis and a question to Dieter is how is it possible
>that the selective depth 110 is smaller than the depth 126.

If Yace can't solve it then I don't feel so ashamed of TRACE.
Still, to reach such high search depths Yace must be doing some clever pruning.

The position is difficult for engines because once the wk has set up a blockade
and shuffles between g1 and f2, the bk can walk around avoiding repetitions.
If Yace is searching 126 ply then it should see the 50 move draw, at least.

Its amazing how such a seemingly simple position can be so hard to analyze.

Cheers,

Ross




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