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Subject: Re: How long does it take your program to avoid this move?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 09:42:16 12/27/01

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On December 27, 2001 at 04:33:54, Tony Werten wrote:

>On December 27, 2001 at 00:33:57, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On December 26, 2001 at 20:38:18, Andrew Smith wrote:
>>
>>>On December 26, 2001 at 19:59:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 26, 2001 at 18:01:35, Andrew Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>An interesting position, where the point is not to find some particular move,
>>>>>but to avoid one. Qxh6? is not right in this position. How long does your
>>>>>favourite program need to avoid it?
>>>>>
>>>>>6k1/p3b1np/6pr/6P1/1B2p2Q/K7/7P/8 w KQkq - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Interesting to see gambit tiger 2.0 analysis after a while. The score is clearly
>>>>>dropping
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]6k1/p3b1np/6pr/6P1/1B2p2Q/K7/7P/8 w - - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Analysis by Gambit Tiger 2.0:
>>>>>
>>>>>1.Qxh6 Nf5 2.Qh3 Bxg5 3.Qg4 Bc1+ 4.Kb3
>>>>>  +-  (4.08)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  3kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6 Nf5 2.Qh3 Bxg5 3.Qg4 Bc1+ 4.Ka2 a5 5.Bxa5
>>>>>  +-  (4.30)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  11kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6 Nf5 2.Qh3 Bxg5 3.Qg4 Bc1+ 4.Kb3 a5 5.Bxa5
>>>>>  +-  (4.90)   Depth: 8   00:00:01  28kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6 Nf5 2.Qh3 Bxg5
>>>>>  +-  (4.90)   Depth: 9   00:00:01  60kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6 Nf5 2.Qh3 Bxg5 3.Qb3+ Kg7 4.Qd5 Bf4 5.Qxe4 Bxh2 6.Qb7+ Kh6 7.Qxa7
>>>>>  +-  (4.80)   Depth: 10   00:00:02  106kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6 Nf5 2.Qh3 Bxg5 3.Qg4 a5 4.Bc5 Bc1+ 5.Kb3 Kf7 6.Qxe4 Kf6
>>>>>  +-  (5.00)   Depth: 11   00:00:07  482kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6
>>>>>  +-  (4.10)   Depth: 12   00:01:02  4288kN
>>>>>1.Qxh6
>>>>>  +-  (3.20)   Depth: 13   00:04:21  17331kN
>>>>>
>>>>>(only, MyTown 01.11.2001)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Chess Tiger 14.8 needs 23.83s to see the score drop to -3.50 and 91.78s to
>>>>switch to Qxe4 (K6-2 450MHz, 96Mb hash).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, Christophe!
>>>
>>>It looks to me like you are making some big improvements in this new tiger!
>>
>>
>>
>>I hope so!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I
>>>can show you my completed analysis on a 333mhz computer (not that much slower
>>>than yours.) Two and a half hours to switch to Qxe4!
>>
>>
>>
>>Yes, and it even looks like the new Tiger will be one of the fastest on this
>>position...
>>
>>The best time I have seen so far by another program is just below 30 seconds,
>>but on a very fast Athlon!!!
>
>Sorry. XiniX needs 30 sec to solve the faillow of Qxh6 ( on an AMD 333, 32Mb)
>
>ply:13/23 score:-1,281 time: 30s  76Kn/s
>1.Qxh6 Bxb4+ 2.Kxb4 Nh5 3.h3 e3 4.Kc3 e2 5.Kd2 a5 6.Qxh5 gxh5 7.Kxe2
>
>then it immediately fails high on Qxe4, but after solving it, it's not very
>impressive.
>
>ply:13/27 score:0,336 time: 51s  78Kn/s
>1.Qxe4 Bxb4+ 2.Kxb4
>
>Tony



OK, you win on this one! :)



    Christophe



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