Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 23:40:16 01/26/99
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On January 27, 1999 at 02:14:20, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On January 27, 1999 at 01:58:35, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>This probably isn't really worth anything, but it's still somewhat interesting. >>It was a test run on Nolot position 2, Crafty and Bionic having the same >>settings, and running at the same time on my PII-300 machine. >>Here are the results: >> >>r4rk1/pp1n1p1p/1nqP2p1/2b1P1B1/4NQ2/1B3P2/PP2K2P/2R5 w - - bm Rxc5; <snip analyses> >> >>Interesting that Bionic picks the right move so early, but with such a low >>score, and then changes it's decision to match what Crafty says, with almost >>exactly the same time/depth by the end of it. >> >>Jeremiah > >This is a very hard position. What both of them are finding is a draw in ply >12. That's what programs will think of Bf6 eventually. I don't know if it is a >draw or a win or a loss, but that's what they seem to see. > >1. Rxc5 is hard to find. It wins. But Bionic is seeing 1. ... Nxc5 in >response, which gets crushed. > >Because both think the score is negative, they're going for the 1. Bf6 draw. > >bruce I agree. I just thought it interesting that Bionic even really considered Rxc5 so early, even though it didn't really solve the position (i.e. finding the ~+3 score associated with the move). Jeremiah
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