Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:35:50 01/25/01
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On January 25, 2001 at 17:01:41, David Rasmussen wrote: >[D]1k1r1bnr/ppp1qbpp/3p2n1/3Pp3/N3Pp2/1QN2P2/PPP1BBPP/R2R2K1 w - - 0 1 > >I made this up a couple of minutes ago, at random. I was quite sure that there >would something tactical in it for white. It turned out there was, starting with >Nb5. But my program took 57 seconds to fail high the first time at depth 11, >only to get a score of 0.85 at research. I wouldn't say that Chezzz understood >what happened until depth 12, where it fails high with +1.18 and gets +2.06 at >research. This took 570 seconds... > >I'm sure a lot of programs will see this within the first second or so... Chessmaster 8000 (default settings, on a PIII-600) does pretty much the same thing: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 4 0.77 4219 1. Nb5 a6 2. Na3 b5 3. Nc4 0:00 5 0.74 10987 1. Nb5 a6 2. Na3 b5 3. Nc4 Nf6 0:00 6 0.82 52345 1. Nb5 a6 2. Na3 Ka8 3. Nc3 b5 0:02 7 0.74 173686 1. Nb5 a6 2. Na3 Ka8 3. Nc3 b5 4. Qb4 Nf6 0:11 8 0.78 792454 1. Nb5 a6 2. Na3 Ka8 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Rac1 b5 0:22 8 0.96 1570374 1. Qb5 Be8 2. Qa5 b6 3. Qa6 Rc8 4. b3 c5 5. Nb2 Qb7 0:32 9 1.07 2301860 1. Qb5 Be8 2. Qa5 b6 3. Qa6 Rc8 4. Bb5 Bxb5 5. Nxb5 c6 6. Na3 2:20 10 1.16 10694071 1. Qb5 Be8 2. Qa5 b6 3. Qa6 Rc8 4. Bb5 Bxb5 5. Nxb5 c6 6. dxc6 Rxc6 7. Nac3 Nf6 6:47 10 1.73 30819461 1. Nb5 a6 2. Na7 Ka8 3. Bxa6 bxa6 4. Nc6 Qg5 5. Qc4 Kb7 6. Nxd8+ Qxd8 7. Qc6+ Kb8 8. Qxa6 13:16 11 3.19 62030810 1. Nb5 c5 2. dxc6 bxc6 3. Bxa7+ Qxa7+ 4. Nxa7+ Bxb3 5. Nxc6+ Kc7 6. Nxd8 Bxa4 7. Nf7 Nf6 8. b3 Bc6 9. Nxh8 Nxh8 jm
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