Author: blass uri
Date: 09:55:18 03/10/99
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On March 10, 1999 at 12:38:18, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On March 10, 1999 at 02:33:14, Peter Kappler wrote: > >> >>8/8/4kpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - - bm Bh3; id "Topalov-Shirov Linares 98"; >> >> >>Does everybody remember this game? It's from last year's Linares tournament, >>where Shirov played a shocking bishop sacrifice in the endgame and won >>brilliantly. I believe that post-mortem analysis proved it was the only way to >>win. (Please correct me if this is wrong) >> >>I watched this game live on ICC with dozens of others, and we were all quite >>impressed with Shirov's powers of calculation. >> >>This *should* be an extremely difficult problem for computers - but I'm sure >>somebody will tell me that Hiarcs or some other commercial program can solve it >>in 10 seconds. >> >>Just curious... >> >>--Peter > >Here is some Crafty output after I made the moves 1. ...Bh3 2. gxh3 > > 19 26:25 0.43 2. ... f5 3. Kf2 Kd6 4. Bd4 Kc6 5. > Ke3 Kb5 6. Kd3 a3 7. Ba1 Kc5 8. Be5 > a2 9. Ba1 f4 10. Ke2 d4 11. Kf3 d3 > 12. Kxf4 > 19 56:46 ++ 2. ... Kf5!! > 19-> 62:48 0.82 2. ... Kf5 > 20 68:52 -- 2. ... Kf5 > 20 116:20 ++ 2. ... Kf5!! > 20-> 144:30 0.81 2. ... Kf5 > 21 198:02 ++ 2. ... Kf5!! > 21 261:49 2.29 2. ... Kf5 3. Kf2 Ke4 4. Bxf6 d4 5. > h5 gxh5 6. Be7 Kd3 7. Bc5 Kc4 8. Bf8 > Kb3 9. h4 Kc2 10. Bb4 d3 11. Ke3 a3 > 12. Kd4 a2 13. Bc3 > >I guess it's finally seeing the win after >4 hours. From the original position, >a 15-ply search showed 1. a3 with a score of +3.xx. I'm going to see what >happens after 1. ...a3. > >Jeremiah What is the machine that you used for crafty? Uri
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