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Subject: Re: Morozevich - Short: 39. ... Kh6!

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 08:01:21 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 09:42:03, James T. Walker wrote:

>Wow,  the above was done with 16 Meg hash tables.  I had Chess Tiger set up for
>blitz with only 16 Meg.  When I tried again with 128 Meg hash tables here is
>what happens.  Chess Tiger starts out with a big plus score of almost 3 points
>which starts dropping almost instantly. Tiger is playing Kh7 like most other
>programs at this point.  Chess Tiger hits the 3rd move in the 14th ply at about
>54 seconds which is Kh6.  It studies this move untill 2:14 when it changes to
>actually play Kh6.  So in tournament time this is no problem for the Tiger.
>Jim Walker

That is impressive. The only other program that anyone is reporting to have
solved this one is Hiarcs. Traditionally even simpler endgame problems than
these seemed to give computers a tough time. How are they now solving them?



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