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Subject: Re: Gambit 2.0 plays like Botvinnik!

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 13:08:46 04/01/01

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On April 01, 2001 at 15:32:45, Uri Blass wrote:

You are completely right (as usual), Uri.

Some output from comet:

Comet-B.32    Sun Apr  1 22:05:54 2001

depth	score	  sec	  nodes		  pv
 1.	-0.73	    0	      246	 e5e3
 2.	-0.94	    0	      694	 g3e2  a7a5
 3.	-0.66	    0	     1642	 g3e2
 4.	-0.69	    0	     2514	 g3e2  a7a5  e2f4  e7d8
 4.	-0.69	    0	     5247	 g3e2  a7a5  e2f4  e7d8
 5.	+0.00	    0	    29947	 b2a3  e7a3  e5c7  g7h8  c7b8  f6g8  b8e5
 5.	+0.00	    0	    30580	 b2a3  e7a3  e5c7  g7h8  c7b8  f6g8  b8e5
 6.	+0.00	    0	    41554	 b2a3  e7a3  e5c7  g7h8  c7b8  h8g7  b8c7


However, it will discard the move later because it finds another move leading to
a small positive score.

Uli

>On April 01, 2001 at 14:50:06, jw wrote:
>
>>The following position is from the famous game Botvinnik - Capablanca, Avro
>>Holland 1938
>>
>>8/p3q1kp/1p2Pnp1/3pQ3/2pP4/1nP3N1/1B4PP/6K1 w - -
>>
>>Amazing! Gambit Tiger 2.0 finds the move 30.Ba3 after 1:34!!!
>>As far as I know it's the only program who finds this move (within reasonable
>>time).
>>The score after 1:34 is 1.28 and after 3:46 it's 4.42 (both at ply 14).
>>Used hardware is a Pentium III 1 Ghz.
>
>I remember that other programs can find Ba3.
>The main problem is to find big positive score for this move because some
>programs may play it with a score of 0.00 but I think that even finding a big
>positive score for white in a few minutes is not a big problem for part of the
>top programs(I remember that at least one of the programs that I bought could do
>it but unfortunately I do not remember the name of the program).
>
>Unfortunately my programs are busy in a different position from my
>correspondence games so I cannot check it right now.
>
>Uri



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