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Subject: Re: A Move By Paul Morphy...

Author: Art Basham

Date: 15:30:48 05/17/03

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Thanks Will...!
I see what you mean...!
I have been testing the new
KnightDreamer3.2
some today, and it really is pretty fantastic...:-)

Art....

On May 17, 2003 at 11:56:35, Will Singleton wrote:

>On May 17, 2003 at 11:17:47, Art Basham wrote:
>
>>Here black played ....QxB, and went on to win...!
>>
>>I noticed that my RexChess program does play this move at only 7 ply!
>>
>>[D]4r1k1/p1pb1ppp/Qbp1r3/8/1P6/2Pq1B2/R2P1PPP/2B2RK1 b - -
>>
>>However, Some engines and programs will not play QxB....:-)
>>
>>Was Paul Morphy just "lucky" most of the time, or was he really a chess
>>genius...!?
>>
>>I will let you be the judge...!
>
>The fastest I have seen is KnightDreamer 3.2, less than a second (amd 1.6ghz):
>
>7210 <first :   6   14   12  87899  d3a6 a2a6 e6e1 c1b2 c6c5 a6a1 e1a1 f1a1
>7220 <first :                       c5b4 c3b4 (732.5k)
>7330 <first :   7   36   24 173401  d3a6 a2a6 c6c5 f3g4 d7b5 g4e6 e8e6 a6a1
>7330 <first :                       b5f1 g1f1 c5b4 c3b4 (722.5k)
>7541 <first :   8   36   45 339150  d3a6 a2a6 c6c5 f3g4 d7b5 g4e6 e8e6 a6a1
>7541 <first :                       b5f1 g1f1 c5b4 c3b4 (752.0k)
>8041 <first :   8   47   94 710173  d3f3 ++ (754.7k)
>8112 <first :   8   63  102 771046  d3f3 ++ (754.4k)
>8342 <first :   8   94  125 958795  d3f3 g2f3 e6g6 g1h1 d7h3 a6d3 f7f5 d3c4
>8342 <first :                       g8f8 c4h4 h3f1 h2h3 f1g2 h1h2 g2f3
>8342 <first :                       (765.8k)
>8953 <first :   9  134  186 1469112  d3f3 ++ (788.6k)
>9494 <first :   9  182  240 1931757  d3f3 g2f3 e6g6 g1h1 d7h3 a6d3 f7f5 f1d1
>9494 <first :                        b6f2 d3f1 h3f1 d1f1 e8e2 a2a5 g6g5
>9494 <first :                        (803.6k)
>
>That's really good, considering Ruffian and Yace both take about 60 seconds.  My
>own program finally gets it at ply 14 in about 3 minutes.  Nice position.
>
>Will



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