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Subject: Re: A simple pawn endgame

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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