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Subject: Re: Test position and a pawn structure evaluation question

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:41:54 02/05/06

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On February 05, 2006 at 08:41:28, Mikael Bäckman wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Yesterday Chepla lost a game on ICC vs Witchess because of wrong pawnstructure
>eval.
>
>[D]6k1/2p2rp1/1q2p1p1/1r1b2B1/p1pP1PPP/P7/1P1RRQ2/6K1 b - - 0 33 bm Rb3
>
>It takes chepla 17 plies to find 34.. Rb3. There might be other winning moves
>too, the idea is to create a passed pawn on the a-file. Other engines play Rb3
>immediately.
>
>Without regard to the pieces on board, Chepla evaluates the pawnstructure to
>+1.02 for white... which causes it to not see the threat.
>
>What do your engines say?
>
>/Mikael

CM9_R1 on a P4-2.4, for depths 8-10, wants to play Qc6 and then follow with Rb3.
After that, at 0:23, it switches to Rb3 for good:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/4	-0.59	2831		33...Rb3 34.Re3 Qc6 35.Rxb3 cxb3
0:00	1/4	-0.64	3800		33...Qc6 34.Re3 Rb8 35.Rde2 Rd7
0:00	1/5	-0.54	8240		33...Qc6 34.Kh2 Rb3 35.Re3 Qa8
					36.Rde2
0:00	1/6	-0.61	24616		33...Qc6 34.Re3 Rd7 35.Qe1 Rb3
					36.Kh2
0:00	1/7	-0.54	67063		33...Qc6 34.Rc2 Bf3 35.Re3 Bxg4
					36.Qg2 Qxg2+ 37.Rxg2
0:01	1/8	-0.56	171657		33...Qc6 34.Re3 Rb3 35.Qe2 Qa8
					36.Rxb3 cxb3 37.Qb5 Be4
0:03	1/9	-0.55	501124		33...Qc6 34.Re3 Rb3 35.Rde2 Rd3
					36.Qe1 Rd7 37.Qb4 Rxd4 38.Qb8+ Kh7
0:09	1/10	-0.55	1708520		33...Qc6 34.Re3 Rb3 35.Qe1 Rd7
					36.f5 Rxe3 37.Qxe3 gxf5 38.gxf5
					Be4 39.fxe6 Qxe6
0:23	1/10	-0.59	4379224		33...Rb3 34.Re3 c3 35.Rxc3 Rxc3
					36.bxc3 Qb3 37.Rc2 Qxa3 38.Qe1
					Rd7 39.Kf2 Qd6
0:32	1/11	-0.57	5934253		33...Rb3 34.Re3 c3 35.Rxc3 Rxc3
					36.bxc3 Qb3 37.Rc2 Qxa3 38.Qe1
					Rf8 39.c4 Qd3
1:05	1/12	-0.74	12635425	33...Rb3 34.Re3 c3 35.Rxc3 Rxc3
					36.bxc3 Qb3 37.Re2 Qxa3 38.Re3
					Rd7 39.Qc2 Qb3 40.Re2 Qxc2 41.Rxc2
2:18	1/13	-0.63	27876533	33...Rb3 34.Re3 c3 35.Rxc3 Rxc3
					36.bxc3 Qb3 37.Rc2 Qxa3 38.Qe1
					c5 39.c4 Qd3 40.cxd5 Qxc2 41.dxe6

jm



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