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Subject: Re: Shredder blind? Stefan? Your answer?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:45:37 08/13/01

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On August 13, 2001 at 04:37:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 13, 2001 at 03:26:28, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>Following position:
>>
>>[D]1rb4r/2p3k1/3b4/4pp2/P1P1P1p1/1N1N2Pq/1PQ3R1/4R1K1 b - - 0 1
>>
>>The last white move was Nc5-b3 and Shredder 5.32 felt fine with +0.2 at a search
>>depth of 10-11 and awaits f5-f4. But Shredder changes its mind very fast after
>>the next black obvious move. Is Shredder blind? Or are the other programs blind
>>too? Would a different move than Nc5-b3 have saved the white position?
>
>Crafty needs quite a while to see Rxb3 too (at ply 12)
>
>--
>GCP

Well...just Crafty...
Fritz 5.32 on 400MHz also takes 30min to find Rxb3. GambitTiger playing black
was MUCH faster. :)
And what makes me wonder is that how can Shredder say +0.2 at d=10/11/12 when
directly after Rxb3 Shredder only needs d=8 to see the disaster.




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