Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 18:26:16 02/01/04
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On February 01, 2004 at 21:22:22, Thorsten Czub wrote: >my girlfriend and i bought notebooks this christmas. i got an AMD 2400+ >and she has a celeron2400mhz. > >the 2400+ XP-M only runs at 1800mhz but is maybe better for chess than the >celeron. > >on this machine CSTal2.03 does arround 55.000 NPS in middlegame. > >i am playing a 40/120 game between shredder8 and CSTal2.03 in the moment. > >it's unbelievable how deep shredder8 computes. > >on the celeron s8 is doing arround 200 K NPS. > >In the moment CSTal is in a better position and has sacced a bishop on h6 >- a standard move - >looks like on of those classical: knowledge beats search games :-)) > >it's unbelievable that CSTal is still competitive. > >shredder8 is - as far as all testers say -the strongest program in the moment. > >we are in move 20. > >[Event "CSTal2.03 vs. Shredder8"] >[Site "40/120, 2400 mhz"] >[Date "2004.01.02"] >[Round "1"] >[White "CSTal2.03"] >[Black "Shredder8"] >[Result "*"] > >1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. >O-O-O h6 9. Be3 Be7 10. Be2 Bd7 11. Nxc6 Bxc6 12. f3 b5 13. a3 O-O 14. Kb1 Qc7 >15. Bxh6 gxh6 16. Qxh6 Rfd8 17. Rd3 Nh7 18. f4 Bf8 19. Rg3+ Kh8 20. Qh5 * > >cstal did not expect 20...Rab8, it had f6 in pb. >the score increases.... > >+2.42. > >s8 says -1.11 but it is only in search 14. > >21.f5 came and s8 is in search 18 (search depth !) > >seems it makes heavy pruning or lazy evaluation or whatever to reach those >depths. > >how can a program reach those depths and play that weak to maybe lose in such a >primitive way ? Maybe alpha/beta is not as good as it's reputation? : ) Bob D. > >21...exf5 and s8 says -0.88 went through search 18. > >CSTal now says +3.10.
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