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Subject: Re: Interesting knight sac

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 13:42:07 03/31/04

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On March 31, 2004 at 16:12:37, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On March 31, 2004 at 14:49:37, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On March 31, 2004 at 12:49:04, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>>
>>>On March 31, 2004 at 06:31:28, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>
>>>>I just completed a 100-game blitz match between Gothmog 0.4.7 and Crafty 19.9
>>>>(yes, I know it is not the most recent version).  In one of the games, the
>>>>following position arised:
>>>>
>>>>[D]r2qr3/4bpkp/p2p2pN/1p1P4/2pNP3/1b5P/1P1Q1PP1/R3R1K1 w - -
>>>>
>>>>Here, Gothmog surprised me (and Crafty) by playing the knight sac Nxf7!?.  It
>>>>plays this after only 7 plies and 1 second, almost certainly as a speculative
>>>>sac, but still keeps it with a +1 score after 20 minutes and 16 plies.  In
>>>>the game, Gothmog quickly got a winning attack after 24. Nxf7 Kxf7 25. Ne6 Qc8
>>>>26. Qh6 Bf8 27. Qxh7+ Kf6 28. Re3.
>>>>
>>>>Which other engines like Nxf7?  Is the sac correct?
>>>
>>>IsiChess MMX (Athlon XP2.7+ 256 MB Hash) likes Nxf7 too, after 7 seconds with
>>>slight minus then draw score. 40 seconds to get the first plus (+0.17).
>>>After two minutes +0.54:
>>>
>>>1.Nxf7 Kxf7 2.Ne6 Qb6 3.Qh6 Rc8 4.Qxh7+ Ke8 5.Qxg6+ Kd7 6.Qf5 Rg8 7.e5 Ke8
>>
>>So...when can I expect a nice, Gerd optimized, 64-bit IsiChess?  :)
>
>It's not only about porting mmx- inline assembly to wrapped intrinsics or
>gcc-assembler. It's a complete new bitboard infrastructure and movegeneration.
> And a complete new eval, porting most king safety (mate detection) ideas, but
>implemeting things completely different and more efficient with respect to new
>data structures.

Is IsiChess bb?

>With the good news from Eugene about future ms compiler i'm a bit more
>optimistic now. But my time is soo limited :-(

Public beta in June!

>So i really don't know - one, two or more years...

Whoa!  That's too bad.  :(

>Cheers,
>Gerd



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