Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 16:07:47 05/07/00
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[Mike Scheidl:] >Sometimes, when a computer program cannot reach more than a draw, it's more a >lack of technique, than of creativity (although both term could be used for the >same situation sometimes). See the following example from a computer game; the >variation after 49.Qd5+ shows the simple winning idea Gnu didn't find: > >[D]3q2k1/3P4/1p1P4/p4Qp1/P6p/1P6/1K6/8 w - - 0 49 ... >I'm not sure that every new top program finds 49.Qd5+ within tournament time. Crafty 17.6 on my machine chooses Qd5 instantly with a huge eval, and sticks with it for some time. It's now been thinking about it for about 7 minutes (and about 55M nodes), and it currently prefers Kc2, still with a huge eval. After giving another 8 minutes or so to the position after Qd5+, it looks like that still wins handily; just not with quite such a huge evaluation... -- g
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