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Subject: Re: computer chess positions

Author: Mark Young

Date: 05:50:06 01/18/99

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On January 18, 1999 at 07:33:16, allan johnson wrote:

>On January 17, 1999 at 22:54:13, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 17, 1999 at 22:25:36, allan johnson wrote:
>>
>>>For those people interested in a few of the positions from the "Big Book Of
>>>Combinations" which Rebel10 and Fritz 5.32 failed to solve I have sent them
>>>to  Richard Fowell.They are someway down the list.
>>What was the time control and hardware used for the attempted solution?
> I set the level at 6 minutes on each position. I'm on a Pentium MMX 166.
> Both Rebel 10 and Fritz5.32 spent well over 15 minutes arriving at their
> response.
> Michael Young has written back to say that Hiarcs 7 solved all the problems
> but it took 30 odd minutes to solve position 274.To me this is too slow.
> I suggest that people get Schrillers' book and put the positions which
> Zarkov 5 couldn't solve to their programmes.The book makes a good read too
> so from that point it is a good buy.Sorry about the pun!


Junior 5 found position 274 in 10 min.

Mark Young



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