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Subject: Re: 1st position, tough or easy?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:56:31 08/15/02

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On August 14, 2002 at 19:45:46, Will Singleton wrote:

>It's interesting how PM and some other strong engines take some time to find
>Nxc5, while others find it fast.  Vincent noted that having extensions off
>caused some delay.  I wonder if some programs prune more aggressively after
>Nxc5, or limit extensions.  Or perhaps this is more a positional problem than
>tactical.
>
>Times adjusted to amd 1.4 ghz (more or less):
>
>Amy        1:16
>PM         1:00
>Terra      0:50
>Aristarch  0:18
>Diep       0:18 no extensions
>Quark      0:08
>
>Baron      0:05
>Queen      0:05
>Amateur    0:02
>Sjeng      0:01
>Diep       0:01 regular extensions
>KnightD3   0:01
>

Wow! These are certainly interesting figures. It looks like PM may be missing
something here. Thanks for this summary.

Andrew


>[D]5nk1/r1q1b2p/1Np1p1p1/p1Pp1p2/Q2Pn3/P3PN2/5PPP/1R2B1K1 b - - 0 26 bm Nxc5




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