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

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 14:45:03 12/15/99

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John, hello again.

Here's the log.  Have in mind that I was connected to the Net while Zarkov was
pondering, and that Zchess and the new EXchess were playing a match :))

- + - + b + - +
+ r + - + - k -
p + - + p r - +
+ p + p P p + -
P P p P - P p +
+ - P - + - P p
K + - + - + - P
+ - + - + - + -
white

00:04.5   211840  8  -1080  exf6+ Kxf6 axb5 Rxb5 Ka1 Ke7 Ka2 Kd6 Ka1 a5 bxa5
Rxa5+ Kb2
00:06.1   311579  9>
00:14.9   728448  9  -1100  exf6+ Kxf6 axb5 Rxb5 Ka1 a5 bxa5 Rxa5+ Kb1 Ra7 Kb2
Bc6 Kc1
00:15.1   740052 10>
00:36.7  1729408 10  -1256  exf6+ Kxf6 axb5 Rxb5 Ka1 a5 bxa5 Rxa5+ Kb1 Ra3 Kb2
Rb3+ Kc2 Bc6 Kd2 <HT>
00:37.0  1750637 11>
00:43.8  2199552 11  -1463  exf6+ Kxf6 axb5 Rxb5 Ka1 a5 bxa5 Rxa5+ Kb1 Ra3 Kb2
Rb3+ Kc2 Bc6 Kd2 <HT>
00:58.7  2985600 11  -1460  a5 Rh6 Kb1 Kf7 Kc2 Ke7 Kd2 Kd7 Ke2 Kc6 Ke3
00:58.7  2986587 12>
01:54.3  5408640 12  -1450  a5 Bc6 Kb1 Re7 Ka2 Kg6 Kb1 Rff7 Kc2 Rf8 Kd2 Rh7
02:28.5  6083068 13>

So, it must have taken Zarkov 4.30 about 30 seconds on a clean machine to find
1.a5 to which it stuck even after iteration 14 after which I turned it off.

Djordje



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