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Subject: Re: Doctor? 3.0

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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