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Subject: Re: The King: 8 seconds on K6-II 500!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:02:24 02/28/00

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On February 26, 2000 at 15:04:48, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

>On February 26, 2000 at 04:05:32, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>[D]r3b1nr/ppqn1k1p/4p1p1/1P1pPpP1/1B1N1P1P/R7/3Q4/R3KB2 w Q - bm Nxe6 or Rc3;
>>
>>1. Nxe6 Kxe6 2. Rc3 Qd8 3. Qxd5+ Kxd5 4. O-O-O+ Ke4 5. Rc4+ Kf3 6. Rd3+
>>Kf2 7. Rc2+ Kg1 8. Rd1 1-0
>>
>>or 1. Rc3 Qd8 2.Nex6
>>
>>Source: Megabyte (former dutch cc magazine)
>>
>>I have seen no follow-up's on this previous posted position.
>>
>>Is 5:36 too hard to beat?
>
>
>The King 2.54 takes 8 seconds to find 1. Rc3, score +4,16
>(expecting 1. ... Nc5). After 1. Rc3 Qd8 there follows
>2. Nxe6! after 1 second and all other moves take less than
>a second! I guess no one can beat The King here.
>
>Used machine: AMD K6-2 500 MHz, 64 MB Hash.
>
>On the same hardware Rebel Tiger needs 6'03" to find 1. Rc3,
>evaluation +4,04 (expected move 1. ... Nc5). After 1. Rc3 Qd8
>the move 2. Nxe6! takes only 3".
>
>Greetz, Jeroen

The version of The King in Chessmaster 7000, with default setting of 1MB (I'm
still trying to get the development team to change that), takes 20 seconds to
find the same line on my PII-400. I suspect most of the time difference is
because of a combination of processor speed and smaller hash size.

HOWEVER, this version of The King expects 1...Qb8 rather than 1...Nc5.

jm



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