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Subject: Re: Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!

Author: Chessfun

Date: 16:39:17 08/10/00

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On August 10, 2000 at 18:08:01, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On August 10, 2000 at 18:01:54, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
>
>>On August 10, 2000 at 17:46:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 10, 2000 at 17:22:58, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 10, 2000 at 16:17:47, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
>>...
>>>>>Fritz 6 reached depth 5 after 9 hours!! (on Pentium III, 500 MHz, 32 MB Hash) He
>>>>>showed 61. Dxe4 Txe4 62. dxe4 Lxc5 3. Txg4 hxg4 as best moves (+1.56 for White).
>>>>>What is the best move?
>>>>>
>>>>>Christoph
>>>>
>>>>nine hours to get to depth _five_ ? hard to understand. I think something is
>>>>wrong.
>>>
>>>It is very easy to understand.
>>>If a program does a lot of extensions it need 9 hours to get to depth 5.
>>>
>>>The position that was posted is a position when some programs do a lot of
>>>extensions  because there are a lot of possible captures.
>>>
>>>The position is not position from a practical game and I do not know about cases
>>>when there were so many captures in a practical games.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Interesting question. What practical game had the position with the most
>>possible captures?
>>
>>I would also dare to say that the position I invented is very close to the
>>absolut maximum. Who can invent a position where Fritz would need even more time
>>to reach depth 5?
>>
>>Christoph
>
>My Fritz 5.32 took less than 10 seconds to find the mate, and Hiarcs took 5
>seconds, Fritz 6 took 8 seconds, Junior 6 took 18 seconds, Nimzo 7.32 found it
>almost immediately.
>
>Something must be wrong with your program.


I only tried a few engs.....F6 no....F5.32 no...H732 instantly
Junior 6 instantly.

Thanks



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