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Subject: Re: THE most DIFICULT ENDGAME - not

Author: Chuck

Date: 19:42:09 04/29/99

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On April 29, 1999 at 21:18:23, Andrew Dados wrote:

>
>On April 29, 1999 at 19:24:07, Paul Richards wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 1999 at 17:25:56, Paulo Soares wrote:
>>
>>>I don't understand Fritz5.32 finding Rxb2 in 56sec in a PII-400,
>>>because in my PII-300 the time is most than 600sec. Could you
>>>repeat the test?
>>
>>Actually you are right, it is at 15 ply and still thinking this time
>>(> 10 min so far).  The hash tables must not have cleared from
>>earlier attempts with other engines(?).  I will restart Fritz
>>before each test and have some better results tomorrow.
>
>   As that position is part of BS-2830 testset in which Fritz gets supposedly
>best scores I would be not surprised if it's scores are not consistent... there
>is always a posibility of some sort of 'cooking'. One may try  setting up one
>ply earlier FEN with one move leading to that exact position, which should
>normally yield same search results.
>    And each engine uses it's own hashtables :)
>-regards-
>Andrew

On top of which Fritz clears the hash tables after every move. This would seem
to me to be a necessity.



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