Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:13:36 07/23/02
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On July 23, 2002 at 21:11:47, martin fierz wrote: >On July 23, 2002 at 18:32:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Right after Crafty played that move, Hsu sent me an email saying "brilliant >>move". I told him Crafty only saw a draw. He said "let it keep searching... >>DB Jr saw +2.5 very quickly." Sure enough, a few moves later Crafty realized >>it was not just drawing, it was winning easily. > >really a cool position! even after 19 ply of the main line, white is still down >in material, and if it were not for his totally misplaced queenside pieces, he >would be doing fine. i'd be surprised if any program could find this in a >reasonable amount of time with a high score. >then again, "saw +2.5 very quickly" is a fuzzy statement. considering the depth >of the combination, i would call anything under an hour "very quickly". so: did >hsu mean one minute or one hour with "very quickly"? > >aloha > martin They found the move instantly. But they got to +2.5 after about 2 minutes. I don't know if they had draw for the instant score as I can't yet find their output. I do remember the +2.5 score after just under 2 minutes. But then Shredder has found that as well so that seems to be correct...
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