Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:50:47 12/24/01
i am sitting here, its christmas. and while it is a little boring, i am doing
some old positions on old hardware with all kind of software.
how is your todays software and hardware doing in a position from 1995 ????
[Event "13th World Microcomputer Chess Championships"]
[Site "Paderborn (Germany)"]
[Date "Oct 11 1995"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chess Genius"]
[Black "Chess System Tal"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO ""]
[Opening ""]
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cd5 Nd5 6. Bg2 Nb6
7. 0-0 Be7 8. a3 0-0 9. b4 Re8 10. Rb1 Bf8 11. d3 a5
12. b5 Nd4 13. Nd2 Rb8 14. e3 Ne6 15. Nf3 Ng5 16. Ng5 Qg5
17. Ne4 Qd8 18. Qc2 Bg4 19. f4 ef4 20. Rf4 Be6 21. Rf2 f5
22. Nc3 Bf7 23. Ne2 Qd7 24. Qc3 Nd5 25. Bd5 Qd5 26. Nd4 Re5
27. Qc7 Ra8 28. Qc3 Rae8 29. Nf3 {diagram: black moves} Re3
{this move played 1995 on tournament time control on a machine
arround 120 Mhz, as a sac against Genius, is still difficult
to find for today's chess programs... or what does your
program say ?} 30. Be3 Re3 31. Nd4 g6 32. Re2 Bc5 33. Re3 Bd4
34. Qc8 Kg7 35. Rbe1 f4 36. gf4 Qf3 37. Qc7 Be3 38. Re3 Qe3
39. Kg2 Qe2 40. Kg1 Qd3 41. Qb7 Qa3 42. b6 Qc5 43. Kf1 a4
44. Qc7 Qc7 45. bc7 Be6 46. h4 a3 0-1
29...Rxe3!
Program (16MB RAM) machine solved ?
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Shredder5 Pentium 133 not in 1h
Shredder6 Pentium 133 not in 2h
Gromit 3.10.2 " (first 4'16", lost,) found again 24'8"
Hiarcs7.32 " 37'58"
Gambit-Tiger14.6 " 10" (+0.44 after a few minutes ply 14)
CSTal2.03 czub2001 Pentium 133 0" (positive score for BLACK!)
Zarkov4.5v Pentium 133 14'57"
how is your program doing ??
which hardware??
best wishes, thorsten
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