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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