Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 12:03:41 02/22/99
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On February 22, 1999 at 04:09:49, Will Singleton wrote: >New Feature > >I thought I'd post a position each week, taken from member submissions >from the current week's play. Recently on the CCC board we've had a few >positions posted, and these have helped me track down some problems with >my code. Probably just chance, but I think these things are helpful >for programmers in that they can see how their results differ from others, >and figure out why. > >So members, please send me interesting games that your programs play (or >just the positions), and perhaps we can all benefit from the analyses. > >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 - - A nice idea, Will! This is PostModernist's "opinion". It's still running, but I doubt if it'll come up with anything more interesting... It's running on a Celeron 333A 8 . . . . . . . k 7 . . o n . Q . . 6 . . r . . . . o 5 o . q o o . . . 4 P o . b . . . N 3 . P . P . . P P 2 . . P . R . . B 1 . . . . . . . K a b c d e f g h 2> 345 0 2 f7xd7 2= 345 0 46 f7xd7 3> 319 0 427 f7xd7 3= 320 0 455 f7xd7 c6-f6 4> 320 0 528 f7xd7 4= 358 0 1997 f7xd7 c6-d6 d7-g4 5> 356 0 5725 h4-f5 5= 356 0 5725 h4-f5 e5-e4 f7xd7 d4-f2 6> 356 0 7856 h4-f5 6= 443 0 28461 h4-f5 e5-e4 f7xd7 c6-g6 f5xd4 7> 441 1 60293 f7xd7 7= 441 1 60293 f7xd7 c6-f6 h4-f5 f6-g6 f5xd4 e5xd4 8> 441 1 82282 f7xd7 8= 471 5 239620 f7xd7 c5-f8 h2-g1 f8-f1 d7-e8 h8-h7 9> 471 7 312634 f7xd7 9= 493 14 664517 f7xd7 c5-f8 h4-f5 c6-g6 f5xd4 f8-f1 h2-g1 10> 476 46 2005915 f7xd7 10= 481 1329 40496030 f7xd7 c5-f8 h4-f5 c6-f6 g3-g4 c7-c6 h2xe5 Andrew Williams
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