Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:23:02 07/18/04
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On July 18, 2004 at 02:10:00, Mark Young wrote: >On July 17, 2004 at 23:54:49, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > >>[D]3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1 >> >>White to play and mate. >> >>Is this a joke or real? >> >>Stuart >FEN: [d]3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR/ w > >White to play and mate: 1. ? > > >Results Program CPU/Mhz Hash table Move Value Plys/Max Time Notes >Chess Master 5000 P100/Win 95 unknown <32 Mb e2-e4 +32.68 12 48:00:00 >1.700.000.000 pos. > >Chess Master 5000, running under Windows 95 on a Pentium 100 with 32 Mb of RAM, >set to Infinite time, Brute Force, looks at 1.700.000.000 positions (yes, 1.7 >billion positions !) in some 48 hours, but even so, it´s unable to find the >mate. By the way, though 1.700.000.000 positions seem a lot, they can be >examined by Deep Blue in less than 9 seconds, you know. Uh.... Chessmaster 5000 Windows 95 on a Pentium 100? >Chess Master 5500 Pentium Pro 200 Mhz ? e2-e3 +31.76 10 00:07:27 mate not >found > >Just for fun, Kai Luebke let Chess Master 5500 look at this position for some 7 >minutes on his powerful hardware, and it reached 10 plies no less. At that >depth, its evaluation of the move was significantly less, and of course, it >found no mate at all. Perhaps letting it look at the position for some weeks >could prove useful !. Uh.... Chessmaster 5500 on Pentium Pro 200 -- "POWERFUL HARDWARE???" (capitalization by me). I assume this is a joke, right? Or is this a historical reference that wasn't made clear in the post? jm
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