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

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 11:33:41 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 11:01:21, Howard Exner wrote:

>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?

"DarkThought WCCC'99" smells the trouble after roughly 2 minutes
(fail low on Kh7). But then it needs another 7 minutes to change
to Kh6. Finally, after 29 minutes it resolves Kh6! as a draw.

=Ernst=



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