Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:36:59 06/02/01
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On June 02, 2001 at 09:19:46, Uri Blass wrote: >I have some position with only one queen and also from real games(ICC >tournaments) >I used chessmaster6000(ss=10) Chess Tiger 14 has also shown some impressively fast mate announcements recently, so I chose it to compare with your Chessmaster 6000 results, using an P3/700 with 24 MB Hash. But except in the 2nd position, CM is (much) better here... (I didn't test the last two very long mates). CM's higher selectivity setting - 10 isn't the standard IIRC? - seems to work fine for this type of positions. Celes-Amatuer [D]3r3k/p1rB3p/1p3q2/1Q2R1p1/2P1p3/2P1B3/P5K1/3R4 w - - 0 1 >Mate in at most 11(chessmaster6000 needs a long time to see mate in 13) CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes. [D]3r3k/p2B3p/1p3q2/1Qr2Rp1/2P1p3/2P1B3/P5K1/3R4 w - - 0 1 >Chessmaster6000 on PIII850 says >40.Bc5 with the following scores >Mate in 11 13 seconds >Mate in 9 21 seconds >Mate in 8 30 seconds Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0: 1.Bxc5 a6 2.Rxf6 axb5 3.Bd4 Kg7 4.Rdf1 +- (20.04) Depth: 9 00:00:00 103kN +- (#8) Depth: 11 00:00:14 4053kN Arasen-Fritz Hard [D]2kr3r/ppp2pQ1/4b2p/8/6Rq/8/PPP3K1/RNB1N3 b - - 0 1 >Chessmaster can see mate in 16 after a long time when the main line begins with 1...Bxg4 2.Bf4 CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes. >I already posted the position after 20...Bxg4 21.Qc3 and in that position >chessmaster needs only 20 seconds to see mate in 10 and 24 seconds to >see mate in 9. CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes. Armegaddon-chesterX [D]8/6p1/1p3k2/1pq5/4pPQ1/1P4PK/P3P2P/2q5 b - - 0 1 >Chessmaster6000 >47...Qg1 >mate in 12 18 seconds >mate in 8 24 seconds Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0: 1...g5 2.fxg5+ Q5xg5 3.Qxg5+ Kxg5 4.Kg2 Qe1 5.e3 Qe2+ 6.Kg1 Qxe3+ 7.Kf1 Qd3+ 8.Kf2 Qd2+ 9.Kg1 Qxa2 -+ (-11.36) Depth: 8 00:00:00 99kN -+ (-12.02) Depth: 8 00:00:00 118kN 1...Qf1+ 2.Kh4 Qfg1 3.h3 Qge3 4.a4 -+ (-12.26) Depth: 8 00:00:00 140kN -+ (-#7) Depth: 11 00:01:21 19469kN [D]8/6p1/1p3k2/1pq5/4pPQK/1P4P1/P3P2P/5q2 b - - 0 1 >48...Qf5+ mate in 12 8 seconds >48...g6 mate in 8 1:15 >48...Qg2 mate in 7 1:19 Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0: 1...Qf5 2.Qxf5+ Kxf5 3.g4+ Kf6 4.Kg3 Qg1+ 5.Kh3 b4 6.a4 bxa3 7.b4 a2 8.b5 Qe3+ 9.Kh4 Qxe2 -+ (-19.80) Depth: 9 00:00:00 91kN -+ (-23.54) Depth: 11 00:00:07 1730kN 1...Qg2 2.Qg5+ Qxg5+ 3.fxg5+ Kf5 4.h3 g6 5.a4 Qxe2 6.g4+ Kf4 7.axb5 Qf2# -+ (-#7) Depth: 11 00:03:26 49308kN -+ (-#7) Depth: 11 00:03:26 49308kN Bringer-Chezz [D]8/5k2/8/7p/4K2P/6P1/5P2/8 w - - 0 1 >Chessmaster without tablebases >6:49 f4 mate in 17 >6:50 Ke5 mate in 16 a) with 4-piece tbs: Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0: 1.g4 Kg6 2.gxh5+ Kxh5 +- (13.56) Depth: 12 00:00:00 45kN, tb=236 +- (#15) Depth: 16 00:00:13 2921kN, tb=3871 b) without tb access: CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes. Hossa-Deep Shredder [D]6k1/p3q1b1/4N3/3p1PR1/2pP4/1p2P2P/7P/3K4 b - - 0 1 >Chessmaster6000 >1:46 52...b2 mate in 14 CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes. Postmodernist-tristram Hard [D]4rb1r/pk1b2p1/1P1p1n1p/3p4/1R1P2P1/1Q2B3/1PP2P1P/4K2R w K - 0 1 >Chessmaster6000 >12:52 26.bxa7 mate in 15 >main line begins with 26.bxa7 Kc7 27.Rb7+ Kd8 28.a8Q+ Kc7 29.Rxd7+ Kxd7 >30.Qab7+ Ke6 31. Qd3 Ne4 32.b3 (not tested) QuerkX-hiarcsX [D]1kr5/1b3pQ1/1q3p2/3p1P1p/1pBR4/6P1/P1r4P/1K1R4 b - - 0 1 >Chessmaster6000 >4:55 35...dxc4 mate in 16 (not tested) Regards, M.Scheidl
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