Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 22:06:35 04/07/01
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On April 08, 2001 at 00:56:26, Dana Turnmire wrote: > If anyone is interested here are a few of the positions where CM5000 did >better than CM8000 on the CCR One Hour test by Larry Kaufman. > To run the test, set the program on infinite with no book. When you come to >the test move simply note the best move after 15" 30" 1min and 2 min. After >each time period if the correct move is being evaluated give it one point. If it >has the correct move after 15 seconds but the wrong move at the one minute mark >it still gets one point for the 15 second period. The most points for any one >test is 4 and of course 0 points is also possible. > Here are all the positions where CM5000 did better than CM8000 on an AMD >k6-2/500/64RAM. > >Set 4 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.Qc2 Be7 7.e3 Nbd7 8.Bd3 >0-0 9.Nf3 Re8 10.0-0 Nf8 11.Rab1 g6. White to move. Solution 12.b4!, the >minority attack and the point of the previous move. CM5000 got 4 points, CM8000 >got 2 points. > >Set 7 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 Bxa6 6.Nc3 d6 7.Nf3 g6 8.g3 >Bg7 9.Bg2 0-0 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Re1 Qb6 12h3. Black to move. Solution 12...Rfb8!, >so that one rook will be posted on each semi-open file. CM5000 got 4 points, >CM8000 got 0 points! > >Set 16 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3. Black >to move. Solution 7...d5!, returning the pawn in the best way, since 7...exd4 >will only keep black a pawn up for a few moves. CM5000 got 1 point, CM8000 got >0 points. > > I thought maybe the test was biased towards tactical moves but these test sets >look more like positional evaluations to me. I might add on Set 4 Genius 2 on a pentium 133 got 4 points. Set 7 Genius 2 got 3 points. Set 16 Genius 2 got 0 points.
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