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Subject: Re: What did they do to Crafty ????

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 22:23:28 12/22/98

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On December 22, 1998 at 19:47:21, James T. Walker wrote:

>Bob I hope you see this and can explain. This is the Crafty 15.20 inside of
>Nimzo 99 and inside Junior appears to work the same way.  Notice the times it
>takes for Crafty to move.  When this is run under Winboard Crafty plays the
>entire variation in only a few seconds.  Notice Crafty takes 72 seconds to make
>the Mate in 1 move.  Crafty searches 10 ply for that move but notice that is
>typical of all the moves.  It's a mate in 7 I created several years ago (18) to
>test some of the old dedicated chess computers.
>
>Event "?"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "????.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Crafty 15.20"]
>[Black "?"]
>[Result "*"]
>[Annotator "Crafty 15.20"]
>[SetUp "1"]
>[FEN "1k6/1P3p2/K7/8/8/8/7P/8 w - - 0 1"]
>[PlyCount "13"]
>
>{59392kB, nzbook.CTG. PentiumII
>} 1. Kb6 {#7/12 46} 1... f5 {11} 2. h4 {#6/14 31} 2... f4 {1}
>3. h5{#5/12 40} 3... f3 {1} 4. h6 {#4/11 39} 4... f2 {1}
>5. h7 {#3/11 38} 5... f1=Q {27} 6. h8=Q+ {#2/10 11} 6... Qf8 {3} 7. Qxf8# {#1/10
>72} *
>
>Jim Walker

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