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Subject: Re: Interesting position

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 23:06:52 05/13/01

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On May 13, 2001 at 09:13:02, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Hello
>
>Here's a position from a blitz game between ChesterX and PostModernist on ICC.
>PM is too hasty here, playing 49... Rxb3  On my Athlon 1200 it takes PM
>34 seconds to choose g6 instead. However, this tranlates to more than two
>minutes on the PIII 450 on which the game was played. How long does it take
>other programs to avoid Rxb3? Please state hardware.
>
>[D] 1r1r4/5kp1/2pp1n2/p1p2Q1p/P1P4P/1PP1PBq1/3R4/3R3K b - -  am Rxb3



Chess Tiger 14.0 (AMD K6-2 450, 6Mb hash) avoids Rxb3 instantly (it plays g6).

Chess Tiger 14.1 for Palm (PalmIIIx 26MHz, no WS, 48Kb hash) takes 137s to avoid
Rxb3, plays Qxh4, then takes 167s to play g6.



    Christophe



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