Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 13:52:49 11/02/03
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<snip> >In the same vein, the following position has always been a nightmare for Tiger: > >[D]8/1KP5/3q2k1/8/6p1/8/8/8 b - - > >This position comes from a real game between the Modular Game System Sargon 2.5 >and Mike III, played in September 1980 during the Personal Computer World Fair. >Mike III continued the game with a long series of checks leading to a draw. > >Chess Tiger is not smarter than Mike III here. It is something that I had fixed >in the 16 bits version, to the expense of some added complexity in the passed >pawns evaluation code. I have not transfered this code to the 32 bits version >because it was not general enough (add another black pawn and the code did not >work). > >I am interested in results of other (amateur and commercial) programs. > > > > Christophe Hi Christophe, IsiChess on AMD XP2.6+ first shuffles around with Qb4+, Qxc7 and Qd7. After 5 seconds at depth 13 Qxc7 came up. Mate in 14 resp. 12 after one minute and 1:10. I guess a matter of won KPK eval. Cheers, Gerd
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