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Subject: Re: 2 pawns vs 1

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:11:56 07/31/01

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On July 31, 2001 at 18:20:18, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On July 31, 2001 at 01:05:53, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>[D] 8/4ppbk/p5pp/3pP3/3B4/5P1P/PP3P2/6K1 b - - 0 1
>>
>>My thing got smashed by Ulf Andersson in this position.  It wants to play ... g5
>>and sticks with it for a long time on a P3/550, like something over a minute,
>>and it didn't have near enough time to avoid getting creamed.
>>
>>I'm pretty sure that ... g5 is dead lost.  I'm less sure about ... h5 or ... e6.
>>
>>A recent Yace switches away in about 12 seconds on one processor of my quad Xeon
>>450, and Crafty 18.10 takes 22 seconds to shift away.  I'm surprised about
>>Crafty since I'd thought that it should do better given its knowledge of
>>majorities.
>>
>>Anyone have any other insights?  If you would like to tell how fast another
>>program shifts away from ... g5, please include hardware.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Where did you play Ulf in this game?
>BTW His playing style must be really hard for computers!?
>
>//Peter

It was on ICC the other day.  His account is "BERTA", if the notes are to be
believed.

bruce




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