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Subject: Re: Shirov's Computer Comments

Author: jonathan Baxter

Date: 19:53:03 11/11/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 16:38:14, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On November 11, 1998 at 14:28:13, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On a PII-266: 0:19 for Rxg7 and a mate announce after 0:50 with standard
>>settings. I assume the 2:34 is in case "combination" is set to "off".
>>
>>Analysis...
>>
>>1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+ Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
>>Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg7+ Kh4 10. Kf2 Qc5+ 11. Kg2 Qg1+ 12.
>>Kxg1 a4 13. Qg5+ Kh3 14. Qg2+ Kh4 15. Qh2#
>>
>>Biggest problem for computers the "quiet move" 10. Kf2
>
>I'm a little slower.  On a P2/300 mine finds the mate in 15 in 1:07, Rxg7+ found
>in 0:28.
>

Just to see how easy the move is to find: I tried setting all eval except
material to 0 in my program. On a PII400 it finds Rxg7+ in 1:49 and sticks with
it (took 15 mins to find the mate but I don't have any special mating
extensions).

Jon



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