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Subject: Re: What ever Happened to Kaissia and Ostrich?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:59:30 06/28/01

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On June 28, 2001 at 15:37:24, Joshua Lee wrote:

>>
>>That was indeed sad.  Most programs of the day could not find those mates.
>>Speeds of 100 nodes per second were pretty fast back then.  Chess 4.x only
>>did 2600 nodes per second as it won most of the 1970's events...
>
>
>How effective were those 2600 nodes though? Pioneer took several Hours (3:45:00)
>on a Nadareishvili Study , most programs solve this with millions of nodes
>instead of 200 like Pioneer!
>
>How fast would Chess 4.x be on todays hardware? Can someone get a copy a test it
>against Crafty or some other program?
>
>I mentioned Ostrich but i was confused i am really looking for information about
>Chaos. Chaos played some extreemly impressive moves for instance:
>
>Chaos - Chess 4.0
>
>[D] rq2k2r/3n1ppp/p2bpnb1/8/Np1N4/1B3PP1/PP2Q2P/R1BR2K1 w kq - 0 1
>
>16.Nxe6!!  Chaos took 587 seconds to find this move it was searching 4500 nodes
>every 3 minutes or about 25 a second.

Chaos played it for positional reasons.
I beliee that programs of today can beat chaos with black inspite of the fact
that 16.Nxe6 is a correct move.

Uri



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