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Subject: Re: Test Move ....#1767

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:18:59 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 02:05:42, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On March 18, 2002 at 20:10:34, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2002 at 18:17:38, Art Basham wrote:
>>
>>>[D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p3p3/n3P3/4N3/1P1P1N2/PB4PP/R3QR1K w - -
>>>
>>>White played Nf6+...!! ...if gxf6, 2. Qg3+ etc,
>>>
>>>It took my old Mach 3 about 3 hrs. to find this one...
>>>
>>>from the Encl. of Middle Games
>>
>>A testing version of Chessmaster 9000 finds it in less than one second on my
>>PIII-600:
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>0:00	1/3	0.50	1031		1.Qe3 Nc6 2.Rac1 Bd7
>>0:00	1/4	0.53	2656		1.Qe3 Nc6 2.Rac1 Bd7 3.a3
>>0:00	2/5	0.45	18089		1.Qe3 Nc6 2.Rac1 Bd7 3.a3 Qa5
>>0:00	2/5	0.66	33051		1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.exf6 Bxf6 3.Bxf6
>>					Qxf6 4.Ne5 Qg5 5.Qxa5 Bd7
>>0:01	2/6	0.93	58616		1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.exf6 Bxf6 3.Bxf6
>>					Qxf6 4.Qxa5 Bd7 5.Ne5 Qg5 6.Rae1
>>0:03	3/7	0.67	200096		1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.exf6 Bxf6 3.Bxf6
>>					Qxf6 4.Qxa5 Bd7 5.Ne5 Qg5 6.Qc7
>>0:09	3/8	0.86	606043		1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.exf6 Bxf6 3.Bxf6
>>					Qxf6 4.Qxa5 Bd7 5.Rae1 Bb5 6.Ne5
>>					Qe7 7.Qc3
>>0:31	4/9	1.39	2235370		1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.exf6 Bxf6 3.Qg3+
>>					Kh8 4.Ne5 Bd7 5.Rxf6 Qxf6 6.Qf2
>>					Qg7 7.Ng6+ hxg6 8.Bxg7+ Kxg7 9.Qd4+
>>					Kg8 10.Qxd7
>>1:36	4/10	1.53	7172020		1.Nf6+ gxf6 2.exf6 Bxf6 3.Qg3+
>>					Kh8 4.Ne5 Bd7 5.Rxf6 Qxf6 6.Qf2
>>					Qg7 7.Nxd7 f6 8.Bxf6 Rxf6 9.Nxf6
>>
>>jm
>
>It looks like CM is going from strength to strenght, can you tell what will be
>new in the CM9000 engine or is it too early?
>
>Regards
>Jonas

All I know is that Johan has found one significant endgame evaluation error, and
has done quite a bit of research into speeding up the search (although I have no
idea if this research has proved fruitful).

He has also provided support for a new mode in the "Mentor Lines" window (which
is actually going to be a separate window which will contain the equivalent of
the "Chessmaster" checkbox data in CM8000's "Thinking Lines" window -- did that
make sense?).

The new "Mentor Lines" window will be able to show data in two different ways:

1) The way it does in CM8000, which a single PV updated over time, and

2) A "Best N Moves" list, in which the user can select anywhere from 2-N and the
best N moves will be sorted by the best move at the top -- full PVs for each
move included. Very useful for seeing alternate possibilities.

jm



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