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Subject: Problem from Old CCR magazine only fritz seems to solve.

Author: John Warfield

Date: 01:52:53 01/18/00


2r2rk1/p3bb1p/2n1Q1p1/q2pP3/3P1P2/p1NB1NR1/1P4P1/1K1R4 w - - id Evans.L -
Pilnick,C; bm d3g6;


  In the last printed computer chess reports magazine this position was used as
a computer bench mark. Various programs were listed along with how fast they
solved the above problem.  I no longer have the article, but if memory serves
Cray blitz solved this in 1 second.  Fritz4 was the fastest to solve it out of
the Pc programs I think on a pent 133 it solved it in 2 min which was by far the
fastest out of the pc program. On my K6-350 fritz5.32 solves it in 32sec!! Using
some of my other programs the position wasn't solved. Looks like fritz is the
best at tactics, chessmaster 6000 took a little over 2 min to solve.  According
to the original article some of the older programs like cm3000 could not solve
the problem even after thinking for days on the latest hardware at the time,
which proved that programs had indeed advanced in sophistication as well as
hardware speed. Does anyone have the old article? I was interested in the times
for fritz and genius. To compare just how much programs have advanced since
then.



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