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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:31:57 06/29/01

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On June 29, 2001 at 03:18:19, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I have to disagree about Chaos not doing well against top programs in tactics
>this may be another story but if you look at so few nodes to begin with and are
>ported to something 100+ times faster you should be able to see that much
>better/furthur and if programs like Hiarcs 7.32 don't find a move like Nxe6 in
>17+minutes and it takes millions of nodes, or Gandalf (also Phalanx) at best
>under a minute but with still 400,000+ nodes  logic tells me that the other
>program is doing better with less.

I am not impressed

I read that Genius1 found this move in less than 1 second on p100

see http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6298/ajedre3b.htm

I tried some years ago genius3 for many hours on the same hardware and it could
not find it.

My guess is simply that Chaos and Genius1 had some knowledge about pins when
Genius3 had not this knowledge because Richard Lang found that evaluating pins
is not productive for games.

Uri



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