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Subject: Re: Position for Endgame Tablebase programs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:40:37 09/22/99

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On September 22, 1999 at 11:46:29, Howard Exner wrote:

>Do any of the programs with endgame tablebases solve this position?
>
>8/6Bp/6p1/2k1p3/4PPP1/1pb4P/8/2K5 b - - id Pos 111 - ECM98H.EPD; bm b3b2
>
>It looks too difficult for non tablebase programs.


Crafty solves it, but it takes longer than I would like to see...  11 minutes.

here is the output:  (quad xeon with all the 5 piece ending databases).

               15->   1:46  -0.09   1. ... Kd6 2. Bf8+ Ke6 3. f5+ Kf6 4.
                                    Kb1 Bd4 5. Ba3 h6 6. Bb2 h5 7. Bxd4
                                    exd4 8. Kb2 hxg4 9. hxg4 d3 10. Kxb3
                                    d2 11. Kc2
               16     2:21  -0.17   1. ... Kd6 2. Bf8+ Ke6 3. f5+ gxf5
                                    4. gxf5+ Kf6 5. Bc5 h5 6. Kb1 Kf7 7.
                                    Ba3 Kf6 8. Kc1 h4 9. Bb2 Be1 10. Kd1
                                    Bf2
         (3)   16->   4:07  -0.17   1. ... Kd6 2. Bf8+ Ke6 3. f5+ gxf5
                                    4. gxf5+ Kf6 5. Bc5 h5 6. Kb1 Kf7 7.
                                    Ba3 Kf6 8. Kc1 h4 9. Bb2 Be1 10. Kd1
                                    Bf2
         (2)   17     6:09  -0.26   1. ... Kd6 2. Bf8+ Ke6 3. f5+ Kf6 4.
                                    Ba3 Bd4 5. Kb1 Bc3 6. g5+ Kf7 7. f6
                                    Bd2 8. Bc1 <HT>
               17    11:26   0.00   1. ... b2+ 2. Kc2 exf4 3. Bxc3 f3 4.
                                    Be1 Kd4 5. Bf2+ Kxe4 6. Ba7 Kf4 7.
                                    Bf2 Ke4
         (4)   17->  11:42   0.00   1. ... b2+ 2. Kc2 exf4 3. Bxc3 f3 4.
                                    Be1 Kd4 5. Bf2+ Kxe4 6. Ba7 Kf4 7.
                                    Bf2 Ke4

Don't know whether it will fail high at 18 or not, however...



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