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Subject: Re: crafty 16.3 - something broken in K and P endgames?

Author: blass uri

Date: 03:23:51 02/08/99

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On February 07, 1999 at 12:50:13, James B. Shearer wrote:

>On February 05, 1999 at 02:10:36, blass uri wrote:
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>>I think that you cannot decide by one position if the change in the evaluation
>>was in the right direction.
>>I saw many cases when the passed pawn is important and the new crafty may find a
>>win by transition to these pawn endings.
>>
>>Uri
>
>       Ok, how about posting some positions where the new evaluation (16.3)
>leads to better play in KP endings than the old (15.15) evaluation.
>                              James B. Shearer

Here is one example:
8/4k2p/8/3p1p2/p2Pp2P/PP5P/5P2/6K1 w - - 0 1
Junior5-Fritz5(16 bit)
Junior did an horrible typical computer mistake and lost after bxa4 when b4 is
leading to a draw.
The old crafty is slower than the new crafty in finding b4.

Uri



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