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Subject: Re: Aufsess 2002

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:32:35 03/15/02

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On March 15, 2002 at 17:24:57, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On March 15, 2002 at 08:36:32, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 15, 2002 at 06:56:15, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>The yearly Aufsess tournament in Germany has started again, when replaying
>>>Rebel's game against Fritz in round-2 I came accross the below position:
>>>
>>>[d]8/8/6R1/1nB1K3/k7/7p/1P4bP/8 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>White has a clear win but has troubles to give black the final knock, then the
>>>surprising 64.Rxg2! follows, game over. How long do other programs need? Rebel
>>>needs 2:15, that can be much shorter, or?
>>
>>
>>
>>Chess Tiger 14.9 on my P2-233MHz notebook (48Mb HT): 62 seconds.
>>
>>So it should be ~31 seconds on a K6-2 450, and around 15 seconds on a 1GHz
>>Athlon.
>
>
>Chess Tiger 14 on a 1.2 GHz Athlon took about 20 seconds:
>
>00:00:00.1	3.90	10	174265	Rg4+ Ka5 b3 Nc7 b4+ Ka4 Rg6 Nb5 Rg7 Nc3
>00:00:00.1	3.90	10	291494	Rg4+ Ka5 b3 Nc7 b4+ Ka4 Rg7 Na6 Be7 Kb5 Rg4 Nc7
>00:00:01.3	3.90	11	672811	Rg4+ Ka5 b3 Nc7 b4+ Ka4 Rd4 Nb5 Rd7 Nc3 Bd6 Bc6 Rh7
>00:00:04.7	3.92	12	2053544	Rg4+ Ka5 Be3 Bf3 Bd2+ Kb6 Rg6+ Kb7 Rf6
>00:00:06.0	3.92	13	2823160	Rg4+ Ka5 Be3 Bf3 Bd2+ Kb6 Rg6+ Kb7 Rf6 Be2 Rh6 Bf1 b4
>Kc7 Bf4 Bg2
>00:00:12.8	4.00	14	5137701	Rg4+ Ka5 Be3 Bf3 Rf4 Bg2 b3 Nc7 Kd6 Na6 b4+ Kb5 Bd2
>Ka4 Bc3 Kb5
>00:00:18.7	4.04	15	7770722	Rg4+ Ka5 Be3 Bf3 Rf4 Bg2 b3 Nc7 Kd6 Na6 Bd2+ Kb6 Rf5
>Be4 Ba5+ Kb7 Rf7+ Kc8 Rf8+
>00:00:19.9	4.90	15	8380762	Rxg2
>00:00:22.3	8.64	15	9606350	Rxg2 hxg2 h4 Nc7 h5 Na6 Bg1 Nb8 Ke6 Nc6 h6 Nd8+ Kf6
>Nc6 h7 Kb3 h8Q Kxb2
>00:00:24.5	8.64	16	10439228	Rxg2 hxg2 h4 Nc7 h5 Na6 Bg1 Nb4 h6 Nc6+ Ke6 Nd8+
>00:00:36.3	9.38	17	15513748	Rxg2 hxg2 h4 Kb3 h5 Kc4 Bg1 Kd3 h6 Ke2 h7 Kf1 Be3
>g1Q Bxg1 Kxg1 h8Q Kf1 b4



Fritz 7b does not seem close to finding it yet in 3.5 minutes on the same PC.

So far, it looks like Tiger is the best by a good margin among the big-name
commercial engines.



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