Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:08:28 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 16:42:09, John Warfield wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 11:45:19, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>On January 18, 2000 at 04:52:53, John Warfield wrote: >> >>[D]2r2rk1/p3bb1p/2n1Q1p1/q2pP3/3P1P2/p1NB1NR1/1P4P1/1K1R4 w - - id >> >>Evans.L-Pilnick,C; bm d3g6; >>> >>> >>> 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! Including the [D] in front of the FEN string apparently does the trick, though I haven't tried it myself. Dave
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