Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 00:36:25 07/19/04
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On July 18, 2004 at 20:23:02, John Merlino wrote: >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 Or is this a historical reference that wasn't 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 Don't you think a pentium 100 is a powerfull hardware ??? ;))) in fact the pahe has not been modified sice 1997 : http://membres.lycos.fr/albillo/ajedre9a.htm
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