Chess - I stumped a computer

[baggygreen]

Playing a computer on a 30 minute limit game, and muuuuum, i think i broke it!

It's been stuck for about 17 minutes and hasnt made a move, it keeps thinking and thinking but not a move can be seen. It is playing black.

White has moved d2-d4
Black has moved d7-d5
White has moved e2-e3
Black has moved Nb8-c6
White has moved Bf1-b5
Black has moved Ng8-f6
White has moved Nb1-c3
Black has moved Bc8-g4
White has moved f2-f3
Black has moved Bg4-f5
White has moved e3-e4
Black has moved d5xe4
White has moved f3xe4
Black has moved Bf5-g4
White has moved Qd1-d2
Black has moved e7-e6
White has moved Qd2-d3
Black has moved Bf8-d6
White has moved Ng1-f3

Is it really that much of a dilemma for the bloody thing? I'm not trying, just killing time at work.. Im sorry mr computer!

[GoldenRivet]

if it were my move...

Black Bishop at E4 to D3

[baggygreen]

thanks GR, thats just what i was after. exactly what i was thinking, I dont understand why it didnt take it.

cheers.

[baggygreen]

thanks GR, thats just what i was after. exactly what i was thinking, I dont understand why it didnt take it.

cheers.

[baggygreen]

thanks GR, thats just what i was after. exactly what i was thinking, I dont understand why it didnt take it.

cheers.

[GoldenRivet]

looks like your computer friend missed a few key moves :hmm:

could have to do with difficulty setting?

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

It probably has some kind of move - its just that it isn't sure it is the best one so it is evaluating yet more ply. Why don't you push the equivalent of "Force Move" on your chess program and let us know what it pitched?

[McBeck]

Thats a nasty stutter you got there baggygreen :smug:

[Skybird]

What type of computer? What date? What you described sounds like a technical problem. In the old time, they either had overheated, or had a memory overflow: some then stopped thinking and gave what they had, but others simple froze and gave the impression to think on, forever.

P.S. If you meant no dedicated board-computer, but a PC running chess software, forget what I said. what software is it, then?

[baggygreen]

Sky, sorry I wasn't clear enough, it was indeed software, not something attached to a board - I'm not that advanced!!:lol:

In the end the software took more than half an hour with no move decided, and so it lost the game. Bit of a shame but thats ok, I started a new game and was comprehensively pantsed!:D

[SteamWake]

Maybe it just got hungry and stepped out for lunch.

Honestly I doubt it was the program being stumped, more like it got stuck in a loop trying to find the best move, find the best move, the start the loop over without executing the best move.

Its not like computer programs ever have bugs or anything :rotfl: