Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 14:02:11 03/19/02
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On March 19, 2002 at 12:18:59, John Merlino wrote: >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). I venture it has ;) >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?). Yes and i like it, really cool. >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. This i can't wait to see! Just out of curiosity, what was the reaction to: hey guys what about making TheKing UCI compatible? :) Regards Jonas
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