Author: Marc Plum
Date: 15:46:24 05/21/98
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On May 21, 1998 at 13:39:39, Christophe Theron wrote: (big snip) >Just to have some fun, I then ran the position with Tiger running on my >old 386sx 20MHz notebook (2Mb hash). It rejects Qxb2 in 18.78s (fail >low), and would play dxe4 in 28.34s. > >So this position is maybe too easy for current programs. > > > Christophe On a P133, 48M RAM, 28M hash, Fritz found it in some small number of seconds, as everyone else has been finding out. Same machine, CM5500 was still showing Qxb2 as best after 10 minutes. Interesting. There are positional as well as tactical elements to finding dxe4, and this does seem to be a weakness for the Chessmaster programs. Marc
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