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Subject: Re: Nolot 5 Solved

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:10:26 01/05/01

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On January 05, 2001 at 08:59:00, Sylvain Renard wrote:

>>>  Hello,
>>>in the french review GAMBISCO, n°48 july 1994, Pierre Nolot wrote
>>>that this test will be the first to be found, some years later.
>>>He was right!
>>
>>I think that he was wrong.
>>There are a lot of nolot positions that are easier for chess programs(I believe
>>that nolot#4 is clearly easier for chess programs than nolot#5.
>>
>><snipped>
>
>  Do you have some results? Don't forget that the program has to find
>the right move with a convincing evaluation! Here 1.21 is not really
>convincing but we can think that it will increase (it would have been
>interesting to let the program run several days to see the evolution!).
>  Best regards,
>     Sylvain

I remember that Junior5(p800,64 Mbytes hash) solved position number 4 in 46
minutes(failed high on Nxe6 with a score of 0.60).

In position number 4 the solution Nxe6 is not winning a lot of material so I
cannot expect scores of +2.

Uri



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