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Subject: Re: Howard's endgame test suite.

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 07:51:25 02/28/00

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On February 28, 2000 at 09:15:21, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On February 28, 2000 at 08:52:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Howard posted an interesting pawn ending test suite last week.  Vincent
>>asked me about position 4, where Bxg6 is supposed to win.  It seems that
>>cxb5 is also good enough to win in that position, based on a deep search
>>using tablebases.
>>
>>Anyone interested in studying this position?  Here is my output (that I saved,
>>further searches were lost before I thought to save them):
>>
>>               15     3:54   2.92   1. cxb5 Bb7 2. Rdd1 Rd8 3. Bb3 Rf6
>>                                    4. Re7+ Kc8 5. Be6+ Kb8 6. h4 Bf3 7.
>>                                    Rd2 Be4 8. Kf2 Bf5 9. Bxf5 gxf5 10.
>>                                    d7 Rxh6
>>
>>I will try to post some analysis of Bxg6 as well...
>
>Here are my results for Howards interestig test.
>
>Results for Howard Exner's PassedPawnSuite
>Date: 02.25.2000
>Hardware: 2xP3-450
>Program: Crafty 17.8
>Extensions: onerep=0.35 incheck=0.5 recapture=0.5
>            pushpp=0.75 threat=0.5  singular=0.5
>Endgame table bases: 5 man
>Hash tables:  Hash=24Mb Pawn=8Mb Cache=8Mb
>
>No.   Best move      Solution time  Different move
>                           sec      move depth time score
> 1.   Qg6                  6.3
> 2.   Qd5                  1.0
> 3.   Bxe5                37.3
> 4.   Bxg6             >3600        cxb5   18  3213  3.01
> 5.   Rxc6                 3.2
> 6.   f6                   8.3
> 7.   Rh1                 11.3
> 8.   e5                   1.0
> 9.   Rxf7 Qxf7           16.7
>10.   b5                 538
>11.   Rxa6             >3600        Qe7    16  1204  0.50
>12.   b2                >600        Kd6    18   597  0.00
>13.   Nxa7                31.2
>14.   Rxf6             >3600        Rfe1   16  2829  0.21
>15.   cxb6                 1.0
>16.   Bxb3                 5.6
>17.   Nd4                170
>18.   Be6                  8.6
>19.   Rxf6              >600        Qd4    16   329  1.23
>20.   Qc2                  1.0
>21.   Kd4                  0.0
>22.   Kh7                 23.9
>23.   Qg3                 86
>24.   d6                   0.0
>
>Solved within  5 sec:  7
>Solved within 10 sec: 11
>Solved within 30 sec: 14
>Solved within  1 min: 16
>Solved within  2 min: 17
>Solved within  5 min: 18
>Solved within 10 min: 19
>Solved within 60 min: 19
>
>Kind regards
>Bernhard

You have to search for a specific amount of time, rather than quit when the key
move is found.  The move has to be found for the right reason.

Will




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