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Subject: Re: 2 pawns vs 1

Author: Mark Young

Date: 23:19:14 07/30/01

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On July 31, 2001 at 01:05:53, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>[D] 8/4ppbk/p5pp/3pP3/3B4/5P1P/PP3P2/6K1 b - - 0 1
>
>My thing got smashed by Ulf Andersson in this position.  It wants to play ... g5
>and sticks with it for a long time on a P3/550, like something over a minute,
>and it didn't have near enough time to avoid getting creamed.
>
>I'm pretty sure that ... g5 is dead lost.  I'm less sure about ... h5 or ... e6.
>
>A recent Yace switches away in about 12 seconds on one processor of my quad Xeon
>450, and Crafty 18.10 takes 22 seconds to shift away.  I'm surprised about
>Crafty since I'd thought that it should do better given its knowledge of
>majorities.
>
>Anyone have any other insights?  If you would like to tell how fast another
>program shifts away from ... g5, please include hardware.
>
>bruce

Fritz 6, ChessTiger 14, GambitTiger 2.0 were the best I tested. All programs
changed away from g5 in about 1 sec. Hardware: PIII 1000 Mhz 512K Ram.




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