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Subject: Re: Amazing, Fruit 2 needs several mins to solve Fine 70

Author: Ross Boyd

Date: 16:45:29 03/17/05

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On March 17, 2005 at 19:22:15, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On March 17, 2005 at 18:27:42, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On March 17, 2005 at 16:26:49, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>
>>>On March 17, 2005 at 15:55:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>Not surprising.
>>>>
>>>>Fruit does not have a pawn hash table, which is the key thing to solving this
>>>>thing fast.
>>>
>>>Think about it, that can't be right.
>>
>>Hmmm locked pawns.
>
>That's partly it. The number of pair-wise king positions is small. The number of
>relevant positions with good move ordering is even smaller still, so Fine 70 is
>almost all about the regular TT.
>
>>
>>Let's call it temporary insanity.

Yep, I think Dann had what some people call "a 'blonde' moment". :-)
We all have it from time to time. Its like 'search instability' but for humans.
He failed low, and then he failed high. Inexplicable, but it happens.

Cheers :-)

Ross




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