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Subject: Re: Test Move.......Engines and Portables

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 13:33:51 03/25/04

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On March 25, 2004 at 15:20:31, Art Basham wrote:

>Checked my old Novag...
>Constelation Forte...
>about 20 minutes..!
>
>Chess Computers certainly have come along way since 1985...!
>
>Maybe someone can test the new Novag handheld unit...:-)
>
>thanks
>
>Art

The Novag Star Diamond (same engine as the Sapphire) has to fight hard here and
needs more than 50 minutes to choose Re3:

.>  d 10   03.30  00:19:38  38/40   7426/s  d4-d5
.>  d 10   03.34  00:52:35  33/40   5320/s  e1-e3

So the Forte is superior in this case.

But although the test position seems to be correct it's not that great, as
virtually every white move wins by a huge margin.

E.g. here's Fritz output at depth 19/57 in 2-best mode after about an hour on
XP2600+:

Neue Partie
r4q2/pp3p1k/2b2P1p/5N2/2PPpQ2/8/6PP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Deep Fritz 8:

1. +- (10.63): 1.Te3 Ld7 2.Tg3 Lxf5 3.Dxf5+ Kh8 4.Tg7 Dxg7 5.fxg7+ Kxg7 6.Dxe4
a5 7.Dxb7
2. +- (8.09): 1.h3 Ld7 2.Sd6 Td8 3.Te3 Le6 4.Tg3 Txd6 5.Dxe4+ Kh8 6.Tg7 Dxg7
7.fxg7+ Kxg7 8.De5+


Peter




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