Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:01:57 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 12:39:36, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On February 16, 2000 at 19:31:12, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On February 16, 2000 at 16:37:30, Jesus de la Villa wrote: >> >>> >>>After several hours neather(sp?)my software say something interesting, nor I. :( >>>Would you supply your main line, please. >>> >>>Thanks. >> >>I don't have one! NCO ends with an eval of +-, that's it! >> >>Here's Crafty 17.6's latest: >> >>depth=16 1/36 +0.00 14. Nxg5 Rxf1+ 15. Qxf1 h6 16. Bc4+ Kh8 17. Nf7+ Kh7 18. >>Qd3+ g6 19. Qe3 Qf8 20. Rf1 Qg7 21. e6 Nc6 22. Ng5+ Kh8 23. Nf7+ Kh7 >>Nodes: 2669305457 NPS: 70807 >>Time: 10:28:18.30 >> >>I am going to stop it thinking now; I have to get some real work done with my >>computer again. :-) If someone else has some decent hardware and another >>program, I'm interested to see how it does. > >On ply 15 with my modified Crafty, I was getting a fail-high with score >.02 >Since it was taking hours (it was running on 8 hours just to resolve the >fail-high), I was forced to stop it, so I could play Planescape. :) I did >follow the line for a few moves, and the score kept going up as I went further >along. I think it's just a case of computer mis-evaluation - white is slightly >down on material (at first), but black's pieces in the corner are useless to >him. The computer doesn't realize this. Not to mention that all white's >pieces are aiming at the nearly-naked black king. Crafty's variation wasn't bad at all. In the main line above, 21. Nxh6 wins the house, and Black's only real alternative is 20...Bf5, which still loses. But I was disappointed that it wasn't seeing that it was winning: the point of the variation is that White can castle (to reach the diagram position where I forced Black to play ...fxg5.) If a program can't see that the piece is untakeable, the program can't see that White can castle safely. Dave
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