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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 9, 8 secs

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 05:26:22 03/30/05

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On March 30, 2005 at 01:24:31, K. Burcham wrote:

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> [D] 8/p3q1kp/1p2Pnp1/3pQ3/2pP4/1nP3N1/1B4PP/6K1 w - - 0 1
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>Hiarcs 9:
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>1.Ba3 Qxa3
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 3/11   00:00:00
>1.Ba3 Qxa3 2.Qc7+ Kf8
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 3/13   00:00:00
>1.Ba3 Qxa3 2.Qc7+ Kh8 3.Qb8+ Kg7
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 4/14   00:00:00
>1.Ba3 Qxa3 2.Qc7+ Kh8 3.Qb8+ Kg7 4.Qc7+
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00  4kN
>1.Ne2 Na5 2.Nf4 Nc6 3.Nxd5 Nxe5 4.Nxe7 Nd3 5.Ba3 Nf4
>  ²  (0.59)   Depth: 10/27   00:00:02  822kN
>1.Ne2 Na5 2.Nf4 Nc6 3.Nxd5 Nxe5 4.Nxe7 Nd3 5.Ba3 Nf4
>  ²  (0.34)   Depth: 11/30   00:00:03  1245kN
>1.Ne2 Na5 2.Nf4 Nc6 3.Nxd5 Nxe5 4.Nxe7 Nd3 5.Ba3 Nf4 6.Nc8 Nxe6 7.Nxa7
>  =  (0.15)   Depth: 11/31   00:00:05  1713kN
>1.Ba3 Qxa3
>  =  (0.16)   Depth: 11/34   00:00:08  2874kN
>1.Ba3 Qxa3
>  ±  (0.84)   Depth: 11/34   00:00:10  3740kN
>1.Ba3 Qxa3 2.Nh5+ gxh5 3.Qg5+
>  ±  (0.84)   Depth: 11/34   00:00:16  6676kN
>1.Ba3 Qxa3 2.Nh5+ gxh5 3.Qg5+
>  ±  (1.09)   Depth: 12/37   00:00:19  7785kN
>1.Ba3 Qxa3 2.Nh5+ gxh5 3.Qg5+ Kf8 4.Qxf6+ Kg8 5.e7 Qc1+ 6.Kf2 Qc2+ 7.Kg3 Qxc3+
>8.Kh4 Qe1+ 9.Kxh5 Qe2+ 10.Kh4 Qe1+ 11.g3 Qxe7 12.Qxe7
>  +-  (3.48)   Depth: 12/38   00:00:50  22319kN


And does anyone recall that Deep Thought took 10 minutes to come up with this
move?  Botvinnink thought for roughly 30 minutes and a documentary aired long
ago on television (PBS I think) had a bit about this famous position.

Today's comps take seconds (Hiarcs 9 as shown above; Shredder 9 was also very
fast; Crafty ... I bet the list is long). Computer chess has truly come a very
long way on PCs.

Roy



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