Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:34:34 01/12/02
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On January 12, 2002 at 17:13:05, Brian Katz wrote: >[D]8/5pk1/2p5/p1p5/P1PpKPPp/1P5P/8/8 b - - 0 1 >This is a position I from a skittles game that I had had as Black, with Black to >move. 1...f5!! is the winning move. After analysing this position after the >game, I wanted to see just how far away the Black King can be from the action >and still win. I placed the Black King on b6 and found that again, 1...f5 is the >winning move. The position is deceiving. I put this position is Fritz and it >finds 1...f5 pretty fast, but not instantly. >Deep Fritz and Fritz 6 seem to find it faster than Fritz 7a. > >I would like to know just how fast the Athlon 2000+ or the Pentium 4 2.2 gig >takes with Fritz 7, to find the winning move. > >[D]8/5p2/1kp5/p1p5/P1PpKPPp/1P5P/8/8 b - - 0 1 can't speak for fritz, but Crafty on a 750mhz laptop finds f5 in the second position in < 1 second and sticks with it. Same for the first position. Neither take a second...
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