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Subject: Re: difficult position for most amateurs

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 14:58:22 11/29/02

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On November 29, 2002 at 17:30:45, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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.
>

Sorry, I meant Ruffian and CM9000 have no problem.

Will



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