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Subject: Re: End Game Study...

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 11:00:16 12/03/02

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On December 03, 2002 at 13:53:43, Colin Frayn wrote:

>On December 03, 2002 at 12:14:11, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2002 at 09:48:39, Art Basham wrote:
>>
>>>Some of my portable units have trouble finding..
>>>1. Kd6..!
>>>
>>>[D]8/kp6/4R3/1P2K3/8/3pp3/8/8 w - -
>>>
>>>WChess finds it in 8 sec.
>>>Mach 3 finds it in  about 1 min. 30 sec. at  7 ply...
>
>It should be fairly easy.  Beowulf gets it at ply 6 in about 0.07 sec, without
>tablebases.  Might be a problem with extensions if they're not getting it
>quickly.
>
>Cheers,
>Col

Of course it's easy!:o) He was talking about portables and old stand alone
units.

Today's modern software/hardware, commercial should see it within less than a
second!

7 sec. isn't bad though....takes my brain at least twice as long!;-)

Terry



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