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Subject: Re: Excellent positional test actually

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 06:54:28 12/30/04

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On December 30, 2004 at 07:05:52, Albert Silver wrote:

>On December 29, 2004 at 21:02:28, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>Considering that your first post to this forum attempted to offend as many
>>people as possible, perhaps humans are silly too :)
>>
>>anthony
>
>Well, he didn't invent the title as it came from an article he was kind enough
>to translate. I looked at it though and he's right (the author of the article)
>in that engines are quite slow to realize white's advantage. They certainly
>don't in the key position prior to a4, and are still quite slow, when they do,
>to see it prior to Qb5. I didn't spend much time on it, maybe 5 minutes per
>engine, but didn't see any that saw a4, which might make it a very good
>positional test for engines, unless something else can be provenly found to be
>better or at least as good.
>
>                                           Albert

It gets it quicker without SE enabled, but I have to admit the score is still
wrong :(  and it plays Qb5 :( :(

1. a2-a3 Bg7-f6 2. Ra1-d1 g5-g4 3. Bb6-e3 Bf6-g5 4. Be3xg5 h6xg5 5. Be2xg4
Rc4-c5 6. Bg4-e6 Kg8-h8
 = (-0.49)	Depth: 11/26	00:00:09.96	10688kN (1073 KN/s, 390 splits, 25 aborts)
1. a2-a4 Qg6-e8 2. a4-a5 Qe8-b5 3. Ra1-d1 Qb5xd5 4. Be2xd3 Qd5xd3 5. Qd2xd3
e4xd3 6. Rd1xd3
 = (-0.20)	Depth: 11/30	00:00:18.21	21958kN (1206 KN/s, 647 splits, 34 aborts)
1. a2-a4 Qg6-e8 2. a4-a5 Qe8-b5 3. Ra1-d1 Qb5xd5 4. Be2xd3 e4xd3 5. Qd2xd3[S]
Qd5xd3 6. Rd1xd3 Bg7-f8 7. a5-a6 Rc4-c2
 = (-0.04)	Depth: 13/30	00:00:39.94	52998kN (1327 KN/s, 2626 splits, 176 aborts)

anthony



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