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Subject: Re: What is the lowest rated program tha can still solve this position ?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 14:45:45 04/19/03

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On April 19, 2003 at 17:22:19, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On April 19, 2003 at 16:28:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 2003 at 16:15:33, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>Great we know that most of these programs are rated at least 2500, but what is
>>>the lowest rated program that can still solve it. Is it BAM BAm or possibly
>>>Movei or Chess Genius 3?
>>
>>You should define can solve it.
>
>Simply to select Ba3 is sufficient as long as the program understand that it
>will be better off 10 or 11 moves later.
>
>I just let Chess Genius 3 to analyse the position under two/playes analysis, but
>when I told it to print the moves analysis it simply froze> Now I saw that CG3
>selected the correct sequense of moves after Ba3 but too bad that I could NOT
>manage to post its Analysis.
>
>>How much time?
>
>As long as it take Movei to solve it, but NOT more than 60 Minutes.

Genesis solves this in 29 minutes on a 733 MHz system, at depth 15.



>
>>previous movei could solve it fast because it was happy with a draw
>>but latest movei cannot do it because it prefers another move
>>with score that is better than a draw during the search.
>>
>>
>>Bam Bam is certainly the weakest of the programs that
>>you mentioned.
>>
>>It is better if you give position that cannot be solved for
>>the wrong reasons but even in that case the weakest program
>>that can solve it tells you nothing because programmers can modify a program
>>to solve a specific position but having weaker playing strength.
>>
>>Uri



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