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Subject: Re: difficult position for most amateurs

Author: bobby palacios

Date: 15:51:49 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?
>
>How does Chess Tiger do on this?
>
>Will


The old commercials solve this pretty quickly too.


Fritz 5 - 4 secs
Hiarcs 7  0 sec (instantly 6ply)
Junior 5  18 secs

p4 2.4ghz 64mb hash



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