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Subject: Re: Speaking of LCT II ... (seems to be used a lot for calibration)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 19:29:37 02/11/99

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On February 11, 1999 at 17:14:23, Dann Corbit wrote:

>This is a subset of LCT II, which I find questionable.
>
>I wonder if you kind persons might run these at high intensity on your chess
>machines.  I have only run these at 12 minutes to one hour so far, and I get
>different answers than LCT II says are correct.  If I could get the input from
>some different chess engines, it would be very helpful.
>
>You will probably have to fix the word wrapping before you feed these to a
>hungry chess engine.
>
>It would probably be very good to examine the original source and see what the
>author was thinking for these positions.  What book do they come out of?

My Crafty is solving only this one at 10 min/pos.  Also a question about the
other one.

>3r1bk1/p4ppp/Qp2p3/8/1P1B4/Pq2P1P1/2r2P1P/R3R1K1 b - - ; acd 13 ; acn 110858121
>; ce 15 ; bm e5 ; pm Rd7 ; id "LCTII.POS.06" ; pv Rd7 Re2 f6 Rxc2 Qxc2 f4 Rc7
>Qf1 Be7

12     6:42   0.25   1. ... e5 2. Bxe5 Rdd2 3. Qf1 Qd5 4.
                     Bf4 Qf3 5. Rec1 Qxf2+ 6. Qxf2 Rxf2
                     7. Rxc2 Rxc2 8. Rd1 Be7
12->   7:32   0.25   1. ... e5 2. Bxe5 Rdd2 3. Qf1 Qd5 4.
                     Bf4 Qf3 5. Rec1 Qxf2+ 6. Qxf2 Rxf2
                     7. Rxc2 Rxc2 8. Rd1 Be7

>r3k2r/3bbp1p/p1nppp2/5P2/1p1NP3/5NP1/PPPK3P/3R1B1R b kq - ; acd 13 ; acn
>88229709 ; ce -26 ; bm Bf8 ; pm Nxd4 ; id "LCTII.POS.10" ; pv Ne5 Be2 O-O Rhe1
>Rfc8 Kc1 Kg7 Kb1 Nxf3

Question about this one:  What is the 'pm' field?  Here's my output for it
(first and last plies, total search time 10 minutes).  It liked the 'pm' the
whole time:

 6     0.12  -0.14   1. ... Nxd4 2. Nxd4 e5 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Bxf5
<snip>
13     2:15  -0.16   1. ... Nxd4 2. Nxd4 e5 3. Nb3 d5 4. exd5 Bxf5 5. Bd3 Bh3
                     6. Rhe1 Bd6 7. Kc1 Bg4 8. Rd2



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