Author: Peter Berger
Date: 15:43:19 10/09/05
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On October 09, 2005 at 18:41:54, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On October 09, 2005 at 18:10:59, Peter Berger wrote: > >>[D]8/1k4p1/8/5p1p/PPP5/6K1/8/8 w - - >> >>It is quite accessible for humans IMHO, but surprisingly difficult for some of >>the engines that are well-known to rock in pawn endgames, like Yace and >>Shredder. > >Peter, Yace does not need very long here, to show the win. Score of > 5 in less >than 3 minutes. Dieter, I have analyzed this position with Yace for about a day :) . Wait until Yace gets much deeper to see it drop to 0.0 . Got you here ;) Peter > >It is difficult in comparision to many other pawn endgames, because it is >totally unblocked. In many difficult pawn endgames, engines will search very >deep, because of a small branching factor. The endgames are rather blocked, or >will be blocked soon. Here we have 6 pawns, that are all not "blockable". > >Cheers, >Dieter
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