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 Or is this a historical reference that wasn't 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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