Author: Joseph Merolle
Date: 20:46:45 06/02/02
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On June 02, 2002 at 22:32:25, Dana Turnmire wrote: >-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >-- -- -- -- -- -- BK -- >-- -- BP -- BP -- -- -- >-- -- WP -- WP -- WK -- >-- -- -- WN -- -- -- -- >-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >BB -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > >Here is the test position found in "The Mammouth Book of Chess." > >1Nxc5? > >This obvious, materialistic move throws away the win. White's c-pawn cannot be >advanced to the queening square without the help of the king, but this allows >Black to counter by attacking the e-pawn. White should not take the c-pawn, but >instead make progress on the kingside by manoeuvring his knight. > >I tested Chess Genius 3 and after almost 8 hours it still did not avoid the >losing move. Can any of the modern programs avoid the losing move? If not >would endgame tablebases help? Hi, My programs Fritz 7008 , Shreddder 6.02 , tiger 14 , gambit tiger on a 300 mhz 256 ram all reject night takes c5 in about a sec flat. Genius 3 is an out dated program, I dont even think it has hash tables let alone end game tables which greatly improves a programs end game. My sugestion is to up grade to a new engine. The concept that programs cant play end games or are material hungry as you said was turned into a misconception around 1995. ( for the most part) P.S Fritz 5.32 looked at night takes c5 for about 2.5 secounds however all programs find k G5-f5 with a +4.0 eval :-) Regards Joseph
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