Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 05:01:47 09/22/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 07:48:46, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >On September 22, 2005 at 05:50:08, Renze Steenhuisen wrote: > >>On September 22, 2005 at 05:39:07, Mahesh Jeswin wrote: >> >>>Only Fruit 2.1 seems to find the draw in this position without egtb. >>>Any other engine comes close to finding the draw ? >>> >>>[D] 7k/7P/8/6N1/7K/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 >> >>Personally I find this case irrelevant because EGTBs exist, and it is cheap to >>load all 3 and 4men EGTBs in memory. Anyways, good work! >> >>Cheers, >> >>Renze > >Yace uses bitbases. They take 52.268.536 Bytes and are loaded to memory. >So Yace is incredible fast at some endgames. > >BTW, what can be found at this position? >There is no win and white cannot loose. >Why must a program give a score of 0.000? >Kind regards >Bernhard The position is not important as a root position, so searching here is irrelevant. However, the static evaluation is more interesting as you can encounter this case in search. I rather have two pawns (on separate files) than a knight and a rookpawn. So evaluating this position with +5 or so won't help in finding a winning continuation in a number of positions. Richard. Richard.
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