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Subject: Re: New suite of endgame positions

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 23:22:58 12/29/05

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On December 29, 2005 at 17:35:40, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>It is important to note that, unlike most test suites, sune did not really
>generate these positions to make it even on both sides. Indeed, in some
>positions it is as much as about 1.5 advantage (see position 11, 13, and 16).
>The idea is to see if the engine can convert the advantage. So, in a sense, a
>loss here would be if the engine only managed to draw.


 Yupp, that's a good summary. In fact - out of the last 11 positions - only
 2 can be described as about levelled. The rook ending where black has to
 play actively with 1.-Rd2! - and the discussion between black's pair of
 bishops vs pair of Knights + an extra pawn. The other 9 positions are
 highly unbalanced - in fact documented won for white/black - even if some
 engine shows +0.08 in the starting position...;-)

 /S



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