Author: Howard Exner
Date: 05:38:40 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 05:44:17, allan johnson wrote: >On January 03, 2000 at 01:29:06, Chessfun wrote: > >>On January 02, 2000 at 22:41:19, allan johnson wrote: >> >>> With all the talk on how strong programmes are today I >>>decided to put a few of my programmes to the test.The one >>>I have submitted comes from The Big Book Of Combinations >>>edited by Eric Shiller.So far I have tested only Rebel Century >>>which fails to find the best move(recommended by Shiller)in >>>10 minutes.My machine is a Celeron 433 64 mb ram.Is this >>>position too complicated for computers to solve? I'd >>>appreciate feed back on responses from Fritz6 and Hiarcs7 >>>and the like. >>>Thanks Allan >>>r4k1r/1p3pp1/2b1p1np/p3P3/3PN1q1/4Q1P1/5P1P/R1R2BK1 white >>>to move >>>Rxc6! pxc6 >>>Be2 >> >>Hiarcs 7.32 Cel 433 >>1. f3..Qh5....line ends at depth 10/30 after 10 minutes. >> >>Fritz 5.32 >>1. f3..Qh5....line ends at depth 13/40 after 10 minutes. >> >>Fritz 6 >>1. f3..Qh5....line ends at depth 14/38 after 10 minutes. >> >>After feeding Hiarcs 7.32 1. Rxc6...bxc6 2. Be2 it evaluates: >>2.....Qh3. 3. Nd6 +0.71 after feeding these two moves in it cannot >>find many moves it likes for black. >> >>I myself think this type of position is easy for a human to see Rxc6 >>than for a computer. >> >>Thanks. > > Yes I agree but I'm puzzled as to why! Will programmers ever find a >means by which they can get their programmes to make temporary inferior >exchanges?Surely the plies required to determine Rxc6 is winning(admittedly >not everwhelmingly) is not that deep? 1. f3 Qh5 2. Rc5 a4 3. Bb5 This short sequence of moves also looks good for white. This may be a line that computers are looking at. Black is in quite a bind here with the poor king position and lame rook on h8. It's a nice position as two different paths lead to an advantage.
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