Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:00:11 12/28/02
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On December 28, 2002 at 13:55:38, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On December 28, 2002 at 09:45:02, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >>[D] 8/8/pp6/2pp2p1/3p2Pk/3P1K1P/5PP1/8 b - - 0 1 >> >>Ruffian is the best analysis-engine I can think of. >>Ruffian 1.0.1 (96 MB hash)on Athlon@1.6Ghz finds the mate in 13 >>in 5 sec (Yes 0:05!!) . This is amazing. >>hey you out there with your 2.8 Ghz Xeons and Deep Fritz 7 engines. >>Try to beat that! >>hope Per-ola will bring out a native Chessbase version of this great program >>soon because there exists some problems with UCI version in Chessbase GUI. >>I would pay 25$ for a native CB engine. >>I dont need chess engines with much positional knowledge for analysis. every >>chessplayer >2200 has much more positional knowledge than all chess-engines >>together. > >This is found instantly in a 9-ply search if your program doesn't use null-move >in K+P endings. > >So 5 seconds is pretty slow. > >bruce No It is not unless you have special extensions The problem is that black can sacrifies pawns and white has to capture them because otherwise black sacrifice the queen for the pawn g4 and win the game. Uri
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