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Subject: Re: Stupid chess programs!!! And that goes for most of them!

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 14:21:08 12/15/99

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On December 15, 1999 at 12:50:29, Howard Exner wrote:

>On December 15, 1999 at 11:44:52, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>Take the following position and setup on your PC:
>>
>>4b3/1r4k1/p3pr2/1p1pPp2/PPpP1Pp1/2P3Pp/K6P/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Every human would play 1.a5 without thinking, but your chessprogram plays
>>1.exf6+??? It may be wrong to call a program stupid but.....
>>
>>Torstein
>>
>>( So far I have only tried it on Fritz 6 and Hiarcs 7.32 )
>
>For a5 to be played quickly some kind of knowledge is required.
>After a5 there are no captures available and a wall of pawns with no pawn breaks
>or entry points. Looks like from another post that Zarkov's programmer has
>implemented this kind of stuff.
>
>Here's Rebel Century's contribution on a K2-233 (default,40 mb hash in dos)
>
>00:00:06 12.00  -8.44   1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 Ke7 3.Kb2 Kd6
>                       4.Kc2  (3)
>
>00:00:55 13.00  -9.81   1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 e5 3.dxe5+ Ke7
>                       4.Kb2 Rd7 5.Kc2 d4 6.cxd4  (11)
>
>00:02:39 14.00  -11.45   1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 e5 3.dxe5+ Kf7
>                       4.Kb2  (56)
>
>00:08:37 15.00  -15.62   1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 e5 3.dxe5+ Kf7
>                       4.Kb2  (162)
>
>00:10:00 15.06  -12.43   1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bc6 3.Kc2 Ra7 4.Kd2
>                       Kf7 5.Ke2  (596)
>
>00:10:16 16.00  -12.51   1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bg6 3.Kc2 Kf7 4.Kd2
>                       Ke7 5.Ke2  (600)
>
>00:10:50 17.00  -12.54   1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bg6 3.Kc2 Kf7 4.Kd2
>                       Ke7 5.Ke2  (621)
>
>00:12:06 18.00  -12.57   1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bg6 3.Kc2 Kf7 4.Kd2
>                       Ke7 5.Ke2  (652)

Is 18.00 the search depth? If yes, what does 15.06 mean? Thank you.

Alessandro




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