Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 10:21:39 01/31/99
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On January 31, 1999 at 10:43:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 30, 1999 at 23:54:15, James B. Shearer wrote: > >> I was playing Fitter on ICC and was surprised when it let me escape with >>a draw in a K and P endgame. I checked the key position afterwards with crafty >>16.3 (on a 233 k6 PC). Crafty 16.3 takes 2 hours to find the winning move, h4, >>at ply 16 (see log below). On the other hand crafty 15.15 finds h4 in 8 seconds >>at ply 10. Fritz 4 also finds h4 in a few seconds. Looks like you may have >>broken something. >> James B. Shearer > > >you must have something broken on your machine, first. I ran this on my >PII/300 notebook, and get to ply 16 in a minute, not hours. Is your machine >swapping/paging a lot? It takes me to depth=16 to fail high on h4, takes 2:00 >on my notebook, and 25 seconds on my quad xeon... I couldn't begin to explain >why it would take hours to get to ply=16 there... I am at ply=17 failing high >again after only 3 minutes on my notebook. > >No idea why it takes 16 plies however... but I'll look... > Crafty 15_18 reaches ply 14 on my PII-350 (12MB Hash, 10 Phash -- set up for blitz) and finds 1...h4 in 36 seconds. Haven't tried the later versions... All this with my Internet connection on. Regards, Djordje
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