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Subject: Re: Test Position, with and without tablebase

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:45:57 07/20/05

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On July 20, 2005 at 13:39:06, Ignacio Santos Crespo wrote:

>On July 20, 2005 at 11:22:29, Salvo Spitaleri wrote:
>
>>Where is the difficult for engines without tablebase?
>>
>>[d]8/p1r5/6k1/RK6/1P6/8/8/8 w - - 3 52 bm Ka6;
>>
>>52.Ka6, 53.Rb5, 54.Rb7
>
>The position is mate in 39, but after 52.Ka6 Kf6 53.Rb5??? is draw; the correct
>is 53.b5 or 53.Ra1
>
>Ignacio.

CM9_R1 on an AMD 2500 needs 0:21 to find 52.Ka6, followed by 53.b5. It gives a
good score in just under a minute.

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/8	-0.02	46013		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Rg7
					55.Kc2 Rg4 56.Rxa7 Rxb4
0:00	2/9	-0.02	72630		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Rg7
					55.Kc3 Rg3+ 56.Kd2 Rg4 57.Rxa7 Rxb4
0:00	3/10	-0.02	134906		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Kd6
					55.Kb3 Rg7 56.Kc2 Rg4 57.Rxa7 Rxb4
0:01	4/11	-0.01	260699		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Kd6
					55.Kb3 Rg7 56.Kc4 Rg4+ 57.Kd3 Rxb4
					58.Rxa7
0:01	5/12	0.00	460347		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Kd6
					55.Kb3 Rg7 56.Kc4 Rg4+ 57.Kb3 Rg3+
					58.Kc4 Rg4+
0:02	6/13	0.00	964179		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Kd6
					55.Kb3 Rg7 56.Kc4 Rg4+ 57.Kb3 Rg3+
					58.Kc4 Rg4+
0:04	7/14	0.00	2007266		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Kd6
					55.Kb3 Rg7 56.Kc4 Rg4+ 57.Kb3 Rg3+
					58.Kc4 Rg4+
0:10	8/15	0.00	4818203		52.Ka4 Kf6 53.Ka3 Ke6 54.Kb2 Kd6
					55.Kb3 Rg7 56.Kc4 Rg4+ 57.Kb3 Rg3+
					58.Kc4 Rg4+
0:21	8/15	0.35	10475975	52.Ka6 Kf6 53.b5 Rd7 54.Ra2 Ke6
					55.Rc2 Rf7 56.Rd2 Rc7 57.Rd8 Rf7
					58.Ra8 Kd6 59.Rxa7 Rf8
0:28	9/16	0.47	14184158	52.Ka6 Kf6 53.b5 Rd7 54.Ra2 Ke6
					55.Rc2 Ke7 56.Rc6 Kd8 57.Rh6 Rf7
					58.Rh8+ Kc7 59.Kxa7 Rf6 60.Rh7+
					Kc8 61.b6
0:56	10/17	1.36	28513872	52.Ka6 Kf6 53.b5 Rd7 54.Ra1 Ke6
					55.Rc1 Ke7 56.Rc6 Kd8 57.Rg6 Kc7
					58.Kxa7 Kc8+ 59.Ka6 Rd8 60.Rc6+
					Kb8 61.Rb6+ Kc7 62.Rb7+ Kd6
1:31	11/18	1.47	48137334	52.Ka6 Kf6 53.b5 Rd7 54.Ra1 Ke6
					55.Rc1 Ke7 56.Rc6 Kd8 57.Rh6 Kc7
					58.Kxa7 Kc8+ 59.Ka8 Rd5 60.Rh8+
					Kc7 61.Rh7+ Kb6 62.Rb7+ Kc5 63.b6

jm



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