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Subject: Re: The King: 8 seconds on K6-II 500! Goliath after 1 second !!!!!!

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 04:03:53 02/27/00

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On February 27, 2000 at 04:59:17, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

>On February 27, 2000 at 04:14:15, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>
>>Bad guess Jeroen, Little Goliath 2000 V2.0 gives Rc3 after only 1 second
>>score starts at +1.34 and goes up to 2.50 after 28" and 3.29 after 1 minute
>>All this on a AMD K6-2-400 Mhz.
>
>Sorry, but I don't count this as 'solved in 1 second'. In your case 1. Rc3
>is chosen on pure positional grounds. Only when the program sees that
>1. Rc3 Qd8 is losing to 2. Nxe6! one can say that it sees through. Most
>programs expect 1. Rc3 Nc5, which loses a piece but avoids the mate.
>
>So The King is still best, as it sees after only 8 seconds that 1. Rc3 Qd8
>is losing. LG2000 can't see this after only 1 second. See the score, which
>is +1.34. This doesn't indicate that the program sees the whole sequence.
>
>Regards, Jeroen

All this is childs play for Hiarcs 7.00 on k6-3 400mhz. It finds Rc3 instantly
and after the reply Qd8, it replies to that Nxe6 instantly too. Or maybe I'm
not being fair trying it out on Hiarcs?
S.Taylor



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