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Subject: Re: Testposition: easy for human, hard for computers!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:50:31 04/01/04

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On April 01, 2004 at 13:37:44, F. Huber wrote:

>On April 01, 2004 at 12:40:29, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On March 31, 2004 at 09:13:59, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>
>>>Composition Eduard Nemeth
>>>
>>>[D]4nBRR/4P1PP/3pKn2/8/4P3/8/6k1/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Black wins.
>>>
>>>My german comment, you can find on my website
>>>
>>>http://www.beepworld.de/members37/computerschach/
>>>
>>>under "Schach-Augenblicke" Issue 02.
>>>
>>>Eduard.
>>
>>Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality on an AMD 1800+, says this:
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>1:47	9/18	9.26	43791762	1...Nxe4 2.Kd5 Nc5 3.Kd4 Kf2 4.Kc4
>>					Nd7 5.Kd5 Ke2 6.Ke6 Ndf6 7.Kf5
>>					d5 8.Kg6 d4 9.Kf5 d3 10.Ke6 Ne4
>>1:54	9/18	0.00	47493175	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>2:21	10/19	0.00	62101364	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>3:34	11/20	0.00	101461833	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>6:08	12/21	0.00	183362925	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>11:42	13/22	0.00	357231093	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>25:11	14/23	0.00	755606542	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>55:21	15/24	0.00	1635382078	1...Kf3 2.e5 dxe5 3.Kxe5 Ke3 4.Kf5
>>					Kf3 5.Kg5 Kg3 6.Kg6 Kg4 7.Kf7 Kf5
>>1:27:21	15/24	-Mate19	2447877336	1...Nxe4 2.Kd5 N4f6+ 3.Kd4 Kf3
>>					4.Kd3 d5 5.Kd4 Ke2 6.Kc3 Ke3 7.Kc2
>>					d4 8.Kb3 d3 9.Kb2 Nd5 10.Kb3 d2
>>					11.Kc2 Ke2 12.Kb3 d1=Q+ 13.Kc4
>>					Qd3+ 14.Kc5 Nc3 15.Kb4 Kd2 16.Ka3
>>					Qa6+
>>2:26:24	16/25	-Mate19	4221414308	1...Nxe4 2.Kd5 N4f6+ 3.Kd4 Kf3
>>					4.Kd3 d5 5.Kd4 Ke2 6.Kc3 Ke3 7.Kc2
>>					d4 8.Kb3 d3 9.Kb2 d2 10.Kc2 Ke2
>>					11.Kb3 d1=Q+ 12.Kb2 Ke3 13.Ka2
>>					Qc2+ 14.Ka3 Kf4 15.Kb4 Nd5+ 16.Ka3
>>					Qc3+
>>4:53:33	17/26	-Mate17	216819522	1...Nxe4 2.Kd5 N4f6+ 3.Kd4 Kf3
>>					4.Kd3 d5 5.Kd4 Ke2 6.Kc3 Ke3 7.Kc2
>>					d4 8.Kb3 d3 9.Kb2 d2 10.Kc2 Ke2
>>					11.Kb3 d1=Q+ 12.Kb2 Qd2+ 13.Kb3
>>					Kd3 14.Ka4 Kc4 15.Ka3 Qb4+ 16.Ka2
>>					Kc3
>>10:15:53	18/27	-Mate17	2087523200	1...Nxe4 2.Kd5 N4f6+ 3.Kd4 Kf3
>>					4.Kd3 d5 5.Kd4 Ke2 6.Kc3 Ke3 7.Kc2
>>					d4 8.Kb3 d3 9.Kb2 d2 10.Kc2 Ke2
>>					11.Kb3 d1=Q+ 12.Kb4 Ke3 13.Kb5
>>					Qb3+ 14.Kc6 Nd5 15.Kd7 Qb5+ 16.Kd8
>>					Nd6
>>
>>This behavior seems very similar to that of Yace.
>>
>>jm
>
>
>It really seems, that TheKing is a clone of Yace! ;-)
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Or, more likely, vice versa.... :-)

jm



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