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Subject: Re: You'll never know... F6, J6, S5, GT2 results

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 11:27:07 05/14/01

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On May 14, 2001 at 13:31:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>
>>The fact that your program can avoid a6 in a few seconds does not prove that
>>avoiding a6 is easy because you may have a good program.
>
>Most programs will be able to avoid a6 reasonably fast they will see that
>they cannot make progress after a6 and hence their evaluation will not
>improve upon rook+3 passers.
>
>When they get deep enough they will see that it is possible to make
>more progress in the other lines, and hence switch.
>
>You are right that it is playing the right move that matters, but
>I suspect most programs will have a lot more trouble in the position
>Miguel posted, because they have to improve upon winning a pawn, which
>is harder.
>
>--
>GCP

I Just tested my program (Gaviota v0.2.1 PIII700 Mhz), it took 600 seconds to
switch to Kc2 (+2.93)and 743 seconds to see Rg6 with a big jump in the
evaluation (+5.24) after 15 plies.
The commercials would do better. How much better? under 3 minutes?

Miguel







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