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Subject: Re: How long to find the winning move?

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 00:10:33 01/13/02

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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

PocketGrandmaster on an iPAQ 3660 needs less than 1 sec to find
f5 but takes some time to get a positive score.

Frank

see: http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com



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