Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:36:21 06/28/01
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On June 28, 2001 at 15:59:30, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I'm not so sure. Black is pinned every which way after Nxe6, with the king stuck in the middle. As I let Crafty search after Ne6 the score drops for black each iteration...
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