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

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:11:55 07/19/04

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On July 19, 2004 at 03:36:25, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>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 Or is this a historical reference that wasn't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

Ok, that makes much more sense. I knew you were quoting something old, but I
didn't see the reference.

Many thanks,

jm



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