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Subject: Re: Interesting position in the Comet-Junior CSCC game

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:17:20 01/03/98

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On January 03, 1998 at 17:15:16, Torsten Schoop wrote:

>
>On January 02, 1998 at 16:50:29, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>
>>The first game Comet - Junior in CSCC has a challenging position for
>>computers, fit for some test-suite material.
>>
>>On the 43rd move, black is an exchange up, and can win another piece to
>>be a rook up, but this loses.
>>
>>Black manages to avoid Rxd3 on the 45th move, but plays it on the 47th
>>move. Which program manages not to play Rxd3 both times ?
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have analysed  47th move (on P-120, 24 MB).
>
>Junior 4.6 shows a very strange behaviour:
>
>Time Depth Move Score
>00:01  9   Rxd3 +1.93
>00.07  9   Qd4+ +1.96 (PV: Qd4+ 48. Kg2 Rxd3)
>00:17 12   Qd4+ +2.09
>00:22 12   Rxd3 +2.10
>01:33 14   Rxd3  0.00  (PV: Rxd3 48. Rxd3 Qxd3 49. Qxd3 Rxd3 50. c7 Rd1+
>51. Kg2 Rc1 52. b6 g5 53. b7 Rc2+ 54. Kh1 Rc1+)
>20:12 14   h4   +0.58
>
>To comparison:
>
>Rebel 9:
>Time Depth Move Score
>00:03  7   Rxd3 +2.55
>00:09  8   Rxd3 +2.61
>00:22  9   Rxd3 +2.65
>01:13 10   Rxd3 +1.26
>08:50 10   Ra2  +1.86
>
>Fritz 5
>Time Depth  Move Score
>00:01  7/16  Rxd3 +2.74
>00:07 10/23 Rxd3 +2.59
>00:20 11/25 Rxd3 +1.63
>01:57 11/31 Ra2  +1.66
>
>Hiarcs 6
>Time Depth  Move Score
>00:02 5/19  Rxd3 +2.15
>00:09 6/21  Rxd3  0.00
>00:39 7/23  Ra2  +1.65
>
>Well done, Bob! Crafty seems to be top in this position.
>
>
>Ciao
>Torsten

Of course, I can construct similar positions where it fails
miserably... :)

speculative is speculative, not necessarily the same as "accurate".. :)



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