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Subject: Re: Unbelieveable good move by Fritz5

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 10:03:00 05/21/98

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On May 21, 1998 at 07:01:18, Georg Langrath wrote:

>6k1/8/p3r2p/1p1pPpp1/1n1pP3/1Pq4P/PR4PB/3QN1K1 b
>
>This epd-file represents a position between Spassky-Tal 1959. Spassky
>took the rook 1…Dxb2, and who hadn’t. But this is wrong. Even if you
>play white with a weaker chessprogram against black with a stronger one,
>white wins after that move.. The best move is 1…dxe4. On the opposite,
>here a weaker black program always wins over a stronger black program
>after that move.
>
>I wrote about the position in PLY (SSDF) about eight years ago. Even the
>strongest chessprograms didn’t find the right move in those days. Not
>even in analyze for a week or so. Does you program find it? Rebel9 find
>it in analyze, but not in 3 minutes on my computer (Pentium 133).
>
>But Fritz 5 find the right move in about 10 seconds, and doesn’t change
>its mind then! Nearly unbelievable.
>
>I have tested Fritz5 on the selfgoing update, and now I have ordered it.
>Perhaps Chessbase shouldn’t be in a such hurry to put it away, when they
>found that it was possible to make it selfgoing. (You have to put two
>files to it from Cblight only).
>
>Not only I had buyed it after testing it, I think.
>
>Georg

On a P200MMX:

Fritz 5 finds dxe4 in 3 seconds (!!!).
Rebel 9, 185 seconds.
Junior 4.6, Hiarcs 6, Mchess 7.1, Nimzo98, Shredder 2, Genius 5 and CST
take over 5 minutes.

Very nice position. Thanks.

Enrique



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