Author: Howard Exner
Date: 07:55:37 11/13/00
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On November 13, 2000 at 09:27:08, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On November 12, 2000 at 21:17:53, Howard Exner wrote: > >>This is what Tiger 13 produces when given 5 seconds per side using an Athlon >>900. >> >>1.Kxg3 Kd4 2.h6 Ke3 3.h7 f2 4.h8Q f1Q 5.Qe5+ Kd2 6.Qd4+ Kc2 7.Qf2+ Qxf2+ 8.Kxf2 >>b5 9.h5 b4 10.h6 b3 11.h7 b2 12.h8Q b1Q 13.Qh7+ Kc1 14.Qxb1+ Kxb1 15.h4 1-0 >> >>Is this on the right track? > >This is all correct and it cooks Kashdan's solution to boot! He gives 6.Qf4+ >instead. See my response to Hyatt's post in this thread. > >Unfortunately, the idea was to see if programs could find the correct line from >the beginning position. You got lucky with the method you used. I should have mentioned that Tiger's output does not reach that far from the initial position, so there was no way of knowing if the deeper lines were accurate. I believe it stopped at around move #8. It showed a +2.XX eval. >If it were >really a reliable way to analyze a position, chess programs would perform their >searches in a very different way than they do. > >I think without EGTBs, it is a tough position for programs, though Crafty came >tantalizingly close to producing a correct variation.
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