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Subject: Re: Fritz5 missed a win against Chesstiger in the wmcc in paris

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 07:18:19 08/01/98

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On August 01, 1998 at 09:57:28, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 31, 1998 at 22:51:18, blass uri wrote:
>
>>position:
>>2r2rk1/2q2pP1/p1b1pp2/1p6/4P3/2Np3P/PPP3Q1/1K4R1
>>white to move.
>>
>>Fritz5 arrived to a winning position because it has a better positional
>>understanding.
>>
>>Fritz5 played 25.cxd3 and made a draw when 25.Qd2 is winning for white
>>
>>Fritz5 using 131072Kbytes hash tables needed almost 30 minutes to find
>>Qd2
>>Junior5(16 bit version for fritz) needed 10 minutes and 40 seconds
>>using 31000 Kbytes
>>
>>This is on pentium200MMX
>>
>>Genius3 needed 42 seconds to find Qd2 on a pentium100Mh with 15 Mbytes hash
>>tables.
>
>This is an interesting point, Uri. As far as I know, nobody had seen this line.
>
>Just for fun I tried the position on various versions of Chess Tiger. Here are
>the results on my K5-100 16Mb hash, and an estimation for P2-300 16Mb hash (in
>fact I had P2-300 with 32Mb hash in Paris):
>
>CT 11.0 (Paris version) : Qd2 found in 641.91s, 213.97s on P2-300.
>CT 11.2 (Paderborn ver.): Qd2 found in 398.15s, 132.72s on P2-300.
>CT 11.4                 : Qd2 found in 426.71s, 142.24s on P2-300.
>CT 11.5 (current)       : Qd2 found in 365.47s, 121.82s on P2-300.
>
>Times on P200MMX should be 25% less than on K5-100.
>
>With white, Chess Tiger would have missed the win in Paris (and would have
>played cxd3). In Paderborn, it would have played the right move. :)

This really is an interesting position.

"DarkThought" locks onto Qd2 in iteration #11 after 45 sec.
on a 600MHz Alpha-21164a with a score of +1.

=Ernst=



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