Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 09:10:18 07/31/01
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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 SpiderGirl shifts away from g5 in 3.0 seconds (depth 12) on an AMD 1200 and plays e6. It takes nearly 3 minutes (depth 18, score -1.78) to discover that black is in serious trouble. The PV starts with e6 b4 Bf8 Bc5 Bg7 Bd6. If this is forced then i guess black is indeed lost. White creates a passer and the black king cannot help.
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