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Subject: Re: "Mate the Royal Couple" - Proposed by V. Albillo

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 Or is this a historical reference that wasn't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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