Author: John Warfield
Date: 13:42:09 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 11:45:19, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>On January 18, 2000 at 04:52:53, John Warfield wrote:
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>Evans.L-Pilnick,C; bm d3g6;
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>> In the last printed computer chess reports magazine this position was used as
>>a computer bench mark. Various programs were listed along with how fast they
>>solved the above problem. I no longer have the article, but if memory serves
>>Cray blitz solved this in 1 second. Fritz4 was the fastest to solve it out of
>>the Pc programs I think on a pent 133 it solved it in 2 min which was by far the
>>fastest out of the pc program. On my K6-350 fritz5.32 solves it in 32sec!! Using
>>some of my other programs the position wasn't solved. Looks like fritz is the
>>best at tactics, chessmaster 6000 took a little over 2 min to solve. According
>>to the original article some of the older programs like cm3000 could not solve
>>the problem even after thinking for days on the latest hardware at the time,
>>which proved that programs had indeed advanced in sophistication as well as
>>hardware speed. Does anyone have the old article? I was interested in the times
>>for fritz and genius. To compare just how much programs have advanced since
>>then.
Hey that's neat how did you get the picture!
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