Steve/Kat,Steve B wrote:Following Jon's Suggetions i gave the Superior(?)Obisidian three middle game positions
The positions were all selected from the games in Spacious Mind's now cult classic thread on rating the chess computers:
http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0
each position offered several reasonable move choices
there are no forced wins or winning tactical shots or forced mates
basically just solid positional play
i set the level to FIXED DEPTH 7 PLY(level FD7)
I recorded the move selected...time ..and Eval
POSITION 1
Botvinnik, M. vs Grob, H. , Zurich 1956
[fen]rnb1kb1r/1p3p1p/pq2pp2/2pP4/4P3/2N2N2/PP3PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq - 0 10[/fen]
WHITE TO MOVE
Move- Qc2
Time-3 Min. 43Sec.
Eval- +.25
I finally had an opportunity to set up the POSITION 1 test position this afternoon on one of my "inferior" Obsidians.
The result was:
Move: Qc2
Time: 3 Min. 19Sec.
Eval: -.25
I repeated this three times with the same result. Not sure why my unit is slightly favoring black's position.
I'm departing on a trip to Europe early tomorrow for work so I won't be able to post the results of the other two positions until next weekend.
I noticed that our starting point in the "Botvinnik vs Grob" game was slightly different than was posted in Spacious Mind's trial. Was this by design? Curious why we didn't start after 6...c5?
Inferiority complex regards,
Greg