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Subject: Re: Ferret

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:03:59 09/21/99

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On September 21, 1999 at 13:58:11, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Hi Bruce!
>
>On September 21, 1999 at 13:54:44, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 1999 at 04:56:37, Lin Harper wrote:
>>
>>>     A little question for Bruce Moreland: a few of the guys on ICC have
>>>  been wondering why Ferret has'nt played on ICC lately. Could you please
>>>  let me know why so I can let them know? Sorry to be asking you a question
>>>  you've obviously been asked before, ..thanks in advance
>>
>>When I came back from Germany I was lazy about taking the machine out of the
>>box, so it sat in the box for some huge long period of time.  Then I got mail
>>from Vincent asking me to run some test for him, and there the machine sits, in
>>ply 20, having looked at 2.8 trillion nodes at approximately 890K nodes/second.
>>
>>When it gets through with ply 20 I'm going to stop.
>
>It would be interesting if you could tell us some details about this deep search
>:-)
>
>Best wishes,
>Steffen.

1rr3k1/4q1p1/Q2b1p1p/1P1P1P2/1Pp1p3/2P4P/R1B3P1/R5K1 w - - 0 1

That's the FEN he wanted me to test.  It's from the DB-Kasparov game that
Kasparov resigned erroneously, or it's a variation that could have been reached,
or something like that.

I don't think that Vincent expected me to run it this long, but there is more he
wanted me to do, and I figured that as long as the machine was working on this
one I could put him off :-)

bruce



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