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Subject: Re: Can your prog solve this -- results

Author: James Robertson

Date: 13:34:31 02/18/99

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On February 18, 1999 at 16:30:01, Will Singleton wrote:

>
>Here are the results:
>
>                    <=5    6     7     8     >=9
>
>Fritz 5.32          dxe5   dxe5  dxe5  dxe5  dxe5
>Hiarcs 6            Nh4    Nh4   Be3   Be3   Be3
>MacChess 4          dxe5   dxe5  dxe5  dxe5  Bc1
>Crafty 16.5         dxe5   Bc1   Bc1   Bc1   Bc1
>Amateur 0.91        dxe5   dxe5  dxe5  dxe5  Bc1
>PostModernist 0.9   Nh4    dxe5  dxe5  Bc1   Bc1
>EXchess 2.5x        Bc1    Bd2   Bc1   Be3   Be3
>LambChop 7.x        Bc1    dxe5  Bc1   Bc1   Bc1
>Gromit 1.2?         ---    ---   ---   dxe5  Nh4
>Robertson 0.0       Bc1    Bc1   dxe5  dxe5  dxe5
>Ferret              Bc1 or dxe5, whatever
>InmiChess           ---    ---   Nh4   Nh4   Nh4
>Diep                classified (private email :), but it wasn't dxe5)
>
>
>Thanks for all your responses, we have some interesting results.
>A couple of issues here -- the first is that the position
>occurred in a blitz game, so only about 10 seconds was available
>to move.  As it turns out, the position is already bad, -1 or
>so (as Bruce says, White is hosed), so there's no real good move
>-- but short term, there is a wide variety of opinion between
>the various programs.  This has significance for blitz play,
>especially considering that dxe5 is probably the best move!
>

I'm proud! To be the only program with Fritz on dxe5. :) Also, on ply 10 it
still likes dxe5, but the score begins to plummet.

James

>Will



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