Author: John Stanback
Date: 12:01:15 02/22/99
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On February 22, 1999 at 04:09:49, Will Singleton wrote: > >To start the ball rolling, here's a position from the game Amateur-LambChop, >played on ICC yesterday. For some reason, Amateur declined the easy move, >which would have won quickly, and played a tricky move that led to a loss. >On subsequent analysis, it took Amateur 9 ply to see the right move. During >the actual game (blitz), it only searched about 7 ply. I'm thinking this >might be some bug or other weirdness. Does your program have any trouble >finding the right move quickly? > >7k/2pn1Q2/2r4p/p1qpp3/Pp1b3N/1P1P2PP/2P1R2B/7K w - - Here is Zarkov's output on a P2-300. It failed low on Nf5 after 6.1 seconds and switched to Qxd7 after 10.7 seconds in the 7th iteration. 00:00.0 3 1> 417 Qxd7 00:00.0 7 1 330 Qxd7 Qxc2 Rxc2 00:00.0 896 1 430 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 00:00.0 1033 2> 430 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 00:00.0 2063 3> 430 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 00:00.1 3328 3 457 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rc5 00:00.2 7782 4> 457 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rc5 00:00.3 11392 4 457 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rc5 00:00.5 22967 5> 457 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rc5 00:00.8 34048 5 461 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rc5 g4 00:01.8 77205 6> 461 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rc5 g4 00:03.8 161664 6 533 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rf6 Nxd4 exd4 Qxc7 Rf1+ Bg1 00:05.8 259108 7> 533 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rf6 Nxd4 exd4 Qxc7 Rf1+ Bg1 00:06.1 274816 7 417 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rf6 Nxd4 exd4 Qxc7 Rf1+ Bg1 00:09.7 450048 7 327 Nf5 Qf8 Qxd7 Rf6 Nxd4 exd4 Qxc7 Rf1+ Bg1 00:10.7 502400 7 388 Qxd7 Qf8 Kg2 Rf6 Bg1 c6 Bxd4 exd4 00:18.5 884120 8> 388 Qxd7 Qf8 Kg2 Rf6 Bg1 c6 Bxd4 exd4 00:24.0 1153024 8 403 Qxd7 Qf8 Kg2 Rf6 Bg1 Bxg1 Kxg1 c6 Rf2 00:53.1 2597358 9> 403 Qxd7 Qf8 Kg2 Rf6 Bg1 Bxg1 Kxg1 c6 Rf2
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