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Subject: Re: Shirov strong tactical test position

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 11:25:14 10/03/97

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On October 03, 1997 at 14:12:34, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On September 24, 1997 at 18:46:31, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 1997 at 06:36:27, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote:
>>
>>>Please post your results here.
>>
>>3.5 minutes on the P6/200, it sniffed it (score +0.39).
>>
>>The score stays about +1 for a really long time, but has gone up to +2
>>after 12 hours.
>>
>>bruce
>>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I've just joined the club ... :-)
>
>DarkThought "sniffs" Bf6 at ply 10 after 1:27 min on a 500MHz
>Alpha-21164a
>with 128MB RAM.

Was the 'sniff' word-concept a Bruce invention ?

Because, if so, its such a neat idea, that we owe him at least some wine
in paris for inventing it.

Incedentally, this idea of sniffing, I understand it because I see it,
but I wonder if it isn't more of a fast-eval-searcher concept. liek my
program tends not to sniff things, but to either find them of not. I
guess that since fast evals are getting many of their positional
concepts from the search, you'ld expect to see a gradual 'sniffing' as
the plies deepen; while a knowledge prg would just tend to grab it on
finding it .... ?

Chris

>
>But later it gets a fail-high on Bg5 at ply 12 after 4:43.
>
>=Ernst=



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