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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