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

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 16:25:08 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 15:41:49, Chessfun wrote:

>On January 26, 2000 at 14:33:41, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>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=
>
>In this message http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/message.html?91976
>and thread Terry claims his F6a finds this instantly.
>Mine don't even get close.
>Anyone else try there F6, also read the above post and thread.
>Thanks

I don't believe it.  I tried every version of Fritz I have and none of them come
close.
Jim Walker



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