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Subject: Re: difficult position for most amateurs

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 14:30:45 11/29/02

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On November 29, 2002 at 17:22:20, Will Singleton wrote:

>[D]2rr3k/1p4p1/1P2b2p/p1Bnpp1q/8/Q1P2PP1/P6P/RB3RK1 b - - 0 26
>
>Solution times (amd 1.6ghz):
>
>Yace       not in 5 min
>Crafty     not in 5 min
>Aristarch  3:48 min
>Gromit     3:12 min
>Ruffian    44 sec
>CM9000     5 sec
>
>Seems like the strong amateurs are using pruning techniques that cause the
>solution to be missed.  Ruffian and Yace have no problem, perhaps they don't use
>null move in the way others do?

"Ruffian and Yace have no problem"...your results say Yace doesn't get it in
five minutes.

>How does Chess Tiger do on this?

What is the solution?

• Re: difficult position for most amateurs Will Singleton 14:58:22 11/29/02
  • Re: difficult position for most amateurs Uri Blass 15:12:13 11/29/02
    • Re: difficult position for most amateurs Uri Blass 15:18:34 11/29/02
• Re: difficult position for most amateurs Jim Monaghan 14:40:55 11/29/02

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