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Subject: Re: New 80-bit Chess engine Gothic Vortex. Your opinion please.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:52:34 10/16/03

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On October 16, 2003 at 16:27:02, Charles Roberson wrote:

>
>>For example, I tested the following position on Zillions and on Vortex that
>>has just 3 pieces.
>>
>>White Archbishop on a1
>>White King on a8
>>Black King on j1
>>White to move.
>>
>>After 3 full days (72 hours) Zillions still shows a very high score.
>>
>>After 1:17 minutes, the Vortex program announces a mate in 23 (which is 46
>>plies) on my 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, and it eventually SOLVES the entire ending in
>>6:56 improving it to a mate in 17.
>>
>
>   If I read this correctly the endgame is KBk. KBk is a draw due to
>insufficient material.
>
>    Noonian is array based and some of my recent versions average 490knps.
>
> Charles

You read it not correctly.

The game is not chess.
The difference between it and chess is that there are new pieces and
the board is 10*8 and not 8*8.

The relevant piece is a piece that can move like a bishop or like a knight and
is called archibishop.

Uri



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