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Subject: Re: Ultimate Posiional Test for Programs, Kaspy vs Pono linares 2002

Author: Jerry Doby

Date: 11:30:45 03/13/02

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On March 13, 2002 at 11:26:41, Bradley Woodward wrote:

>On March 13, 2002 at 00:18:10, john warren wrote:
>
>>What program can finds the strongest move which is QH4!! According to Annotators
>>at chessbase weaker is Bxf6, which allows pono to contest the D file, I suspect
>>this is much to hard a problem for programs, most likely pono would have drawn
>>any program in this position.
>>
>>
>>
>>  r1b2k1r/ppq2ppp/4pb2/1Bp3B1/6Q1/2P5/PP3PPP/3R1RK1 w - - id Kasparov, G. -
>>Ponomariov, R.; bm g4h4;[D]
>
>Diep found this in 1 minute, 20 seconds, on a P4 1.7 Ghz, 90 Meg hash.  Vincent
>assures me that this particular type of P4 is hopeless for chess.  :-/
>
>01:20 0 0 4259180 (0) 10 0.089 Qg4-h4 Bf6xg5 Qh4xg5 f7-f6 Qg5-h5 Qc7-e7 Rf1-e1
>e6-e5 f2-f4 e5-e4 f4-f5 Qe7-e5
>
>It actually found it after 2 seconds, but changed its mind to Bf6.  Then it
>changed its mind again.  Love chess programs. :)
>
>Crafty hasn't found it after nearly 5 minutes of searching, but I'm not using
>the latest version (I'm on 18.7), so I don't know what difference this makes.




Hey that's pretty impressive for Diep, this tends to support Vincent diepeveen
position that his program has alot of positional understanding!!!!



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