Author: blass uri
Date: 01:23:37 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 04:17:44, blass uri wrote: >On January 19, 2000 at 15:49:55, Marek Soszynski wrote: > >>The following was posted to the Polish-language newsgroup pl.rec.gry.szachy >>(18/Jan/2000) by Darius Dlugopolski. I translate it here, without comment, for a >>wider audience. >> >>"I'd like to reveal to all correspondence chess players the secret of the best >>analysis module. You probably won't believe it, but it's... Doctor? 3.0, which >>forms part of the Fritz 5 (or 6) setup. A close acquaintance of mine (a >>contestant in the Polish Correspondence Chess Championship currently taking >>place) has the majority of the best chess programs at present (Fritz, Rebel, >>Hiarcs, ChessMaster). These programs of course make light work of Doctor? at >>normal time limits; in analysing positions they are better too. However, the >>situation seems to change when positions are set up for a minimum of 24 hours - >>it's that kind of time my friend uses, and he claims that at such durations >>Doctor? has no equals." > >I am interested to see the positions when only doctor can find the right move. > >I started to test doctor3 in hard combinations for programs when usually >programs cannot find the right move at tournament time control(they may need an >hour or some hours) and I did not find that doctor3 is better in solving these >positions. > >Here is one example: > >[D] 3r1b1k/pp6/2n2q1p/2Bp1B1Q/5P2/1P4p1/P7/4R1K1 w - - 0 1 > > >Doctor3 could not find Re6 after more than 1 hour of search on pentiumIII450 > >Uri I hope that now without a space the diagram will appear [D]3r1b1k/pp6/2n2q1p/2Bp1B1Q/5P2/1P4p1/P7/4R1K1 w - - 0 1 Uri
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