Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:08:12 03/22/98
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On March 21, 1998 at 10:59:22, Hans Havermann wrote: >On March 15, 1998 at 21:16:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> 14-> 1:22 0.00 1. c4 b5 2. cxb5 axb5 3. axb5 Nxb5+ >> 4. Ke7 Nc3 5. Kf7 Kb7 6. Kxg6 Ne2 7. >> f5 Nxg3 8. b5 Kb6 >> >> >>doesn't see a win, does see a dead draw... > >Thank you, Bob. I was able to run your 14.6 Mac-port overnight on the >position and it's still a draw after 16: > > 16-> 391:21 0.00 c4 b5 cxb5 axb5 axb5 Nxb5+ Ke7 Nc3 > Kf7 Ne2 Kxg6 Nxg3 f5 Nxf5 <EGTB> > >I presume the <EGTB> is reliance on a tablebase. This program is quite >the CPU-hog and I'm not sure it was taking advantage of the RAM I had >assigned to it, since it was doing some furious read/writes to my hard >drive. I suppose this is because it is a "simple" port and that is how >the program runs on non-Mac systems. > >Hans Havermann >Rarebit Dreams not at all... crafty probes deep in the search, and can buzz a hard drive in positions where there are 12 or fewer pieces, as it finds lots of ways to trade down to 3-4-5 piece endings and probe the databases. It slows down, but it plays *way* smarter. I can't count the times it has won a drawn ending, and drawn a lost one because of this... :)
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