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Subject: Re: new paradigm: interesting position to differenciate old/new...

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 08:57:26 11/05/00

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On November 05, 2000 at 11:28:58, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>[Event "?"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "????.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "x"]
>[Black "y"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 c6 8. Qd2 cxd5
>9. cxd5 a6 10. Bd3 Nh5 11. Nge2 f5 12. exf5 gxf5 13. O-O-O b5 14. g4 fxg4 15.
>fxg4 Bxg4 16. Rhg1 1-0
>
>let your famous programs compute about 16.Rhg1 please.

Hi,

This is the position:

[D] rn1q1rk1/6bp/p2p4/1p1Pp2n/6b1/2NBB3/PP1QN2P/2KR3R w - - 0 16

I'm afraid my program isn't famous, but here is its output. It never
considers that Black is better, although the score is falling as it
gets deeper. I think I'll run this overnight and see what happens.

 1=    54     0       188   16. Rdf1 Rxf1 17. Rxf1
 2=    54     0       252   16. Rdf1 Rxf1 17. Rxf1 Bxe2 18. Nxe2
 3=    31     0       804   16. Qc2 Nf6
 4=    55     0      2228   16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Rdg1
 5=    35     0      8550   16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Rdg1 Nbd7
 6=    58     1     40623   16. Rhg1 Bf5 17. Bg5 Qe8 18. Bh6
 7=    39     5    181115   16. Rhg1 Bf5 17. Bh6 Qh4 18. Bxf5 Rxf5 19. Qc2
 8=    39    19    476616   16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Rdg1 Bf3 18. Bh6 Bxh1 19. Rxg7
 9=    38    59   1706262   16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Rdg1 b4 18. Bg5 h5 19. Bh7 Kh8 20.
Bxf6
10=    24   417  12520722   16. Rhg1 Qd7 17. Qc2 Bf5 18. Bh6 Bxd3 19. Rxd3


This is on a K6-2 300 which was a bit busy doing other things too. I can't
comment on your views below, but one thing I will say is that PM would get
crushed in a straight match against Fritz, Shredder, Junior or Hiarcs. And
Gambit Tiger as well :-)

Andrew


>
>i have e.g. Fritz6 running ...
>
>it says
>-0.19 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.h3 Bxe2 18.Nxe2 Qc8+ 19.Kb1 Qxh3 20.Rg3 Qh5
>
>Fritz really believes BLACK is better !!
>
>junior6a says:
>
>1'55" -0.18 depth 15 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.Bh6 Rf7 18.h3 Bxe2 19.Qxe2 b4
>5'41" -0.26 depth 16 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.Bh6 Ra7 18.h3
>17'56" -0.21 depth 17 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.Rdf1 b4 18.Ne4...
>
>junior believes black is slightly better...
>
>hiarcs7.32:
>
>2'44"  -0.11 depth 10/29 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.Bg5 Qd7 18.Bxf6 Rxf6 ...
>8'7"   -0.17 depth 10/29 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.Bg5 h5 18.Kb1 Nbd7 ...
>
>
>Now shredder4:
>
>55"   depth 10    +0.03 16.Rhg1 Qc8 17.Kc2
>4'53" depth 11    +0.11 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.Bg5 Qd7 18.Bxf6 Rxf6 19.Qg5
>9'11" depth 12.01 +0.03 16.Rhg1 Nf6 17.h3 Bxh3 18.Bh6 Rf7 19.Rxg7
>
>shredder, as fritz, has a "could be anything" line and evaluation.
>
>chessmaster6000:
>
>1'10" 4/9   -0.36 Rhg1 Nf6 Rg3 Qc8 Kb1 b4 Ne4 Nxe4...
>9'28" 4/10  -0.13 Rhg1 Qc8 Kb1 Nf6 Rc1 Qd7 Ne4 Nxe4 ...
>27'08" 5/11 -0.30 Rhg1 Nf6 Rdf1 Nbd7 Bh6 Rf7 Bg5 Qe8 ...
>
>
>CSTal2.03:
>
>d8, 35s, -0.25, Qc2 Nf4 Bxh7+ Kh8 Rdg1 Qh4 Nf4 exf4 exf4 ...
>d9, 107s, -0.72, Qc2 b4 Bxh7+ Kh8 Na4 Nf4 Bxf4 ...
>d9, 195s, -0.48, Kb1 Nbd7 Rhg1 Ndf6 Bg5 Qc8 Rdf1 b4
>d10, 356s, -0.27, Rhg1 Qc8 Bh6 Ra7 h3 Bf3 Qe3
>
>and cstal on the right "trip"...
>
>d10, 515s, >+0.10, Rhg1 Qc8
>d10, 809s, +0.39, Rhg1 Qc8 Bh6 Ra7 Qg5 Bf3 Qe3 Raf7
>
>
>remember: cstal was designed years before gambit-tiger.
>you cannot expect that cstal gets the similar kind of
>power concerning these stuff, but - instead of dump ideas,
>it sees the main point in this position.
>
>
>Gambit-Tiger1.0
>
>2"  +1.66 d8  Rhg1 Qc8 Kb1 ...
>...
>23" +1.86 d10 Rhg1 Bf5 Rg5 Bg6 Rdg1 Nd7 Bxg6 hxg6 Rxg6 Qe8...
>36" +2.06 d11 Rhg1 Bg5 "   "    "    "    "   "   Qc2 Qe8 ...
>
>imagine now, you are a chess player, having black,
>a customer who buys chess programs for analyzing chess,
>you have a fast pc and chess programs,
>this is a mail-chess game position
>(it really IS!!! :-)))
>and you would
>have analysed it with fritz and all the other
>bean-counters,
>and NOT with Gambit-Tiger or other programs that
>evaluate positions with chess-contents
>instead of counting masses of senseless NPS :-)))
>
>you would have lost the game in the moment
>white played 14.g4 because you don't see that 16.Rhg1
>is better position for white.
>
>sad. todays programs do not play chess. they compute
>many things, but definetely not chess.
>
>maybe checkers. maybe they count the number of pieces.
>they have gigahertz pc's, and still see nothing.
>
>
>comments and main-lines of programs welcome.
>i am exaggerating a little (:-))) but because this
>is really a position one of my friends lost because
>the he was so stupid to use todays chess programs
>for analysis of blacks position,
>its shocking to me.
>
>always and always we talk about RIGHT evaluation and plan-making
>and and and.
>but how shall programs play and plan when they have no idea
>about what is going on on the chess-board despite counting the
>material ?
>
>You said that gambit-tiger is NOT new paradigm
>but "just tuning of evaluation functions".
>
>If so : why is no other chess program evaluating Rhg1 "right" ??
>
>You are mistaken. Gambit-Tiger is following the new paradigm.
>Its just in the beginning (version number is 1.0 !!)
>but christophe has gone IMO through a door.
>its the same way out chris whittington stepped through.
>you don't see this, but i do. i don't know why you
>want to convince me that gambit-tiger is like all the other
>stupid programs. i have no idea why you try. i guess you
>want to hide that YOUR programs are "normal" ones.
>
>show me the program that score this position (16,move)
>as won for white.
>
>Of course a program that would be more than in the beginning
>would play 14.g4 with the idea of the game-line.
>But if they don't see that Rhg1 is winning the game, how shall
>they see that 14.g4 is the way to the target ?!
>they are blind.
>
>and the fact that you deny that, is ONE reason your programs
>will not play chess. they play checkers.
>
>give up this old paradigm. it leads to nothing.
>the new paradigm opens new point of views into chess programming.
>it prepares you to go the next step into a higher quality of
>chess-programming.
>
>i don't tell you about this to make chris and christophe up
>and bring you down.
>i only want to point on the differences !
>to show different approaches. if you always give your best
>to hide and camouflage these differences, you will never understand
>IMO which direction to go.
>you will tune on what you call "accurate" play, but there is no
>accurate play.
>
>the new paradigm is not to tune the evaluation function right.
>thats nonsense. people have always tuned on the evaluation function.
>to make it play this or that.
>
>why don't you understand this. chris never said you have to
>make the evaluation-function accurate. that was the opponent,
>genius (ossi and richard) or others. Mchess and CSTal and
>others always tried to teach the programs to see something
>that others DON'T see, to make the program capable to
>invent something because they see ideas and chess-contents.
>and you cannot evaluate an idea accurate. because you
>don't know if it works. so how do you evaluate a position ?
>16.Rhg1 is worth what ?
>14.g4 is worth how much ?
>there is nothing to evaluate if you don't know about chess.
>you could count the pawns, but this will tell you nothing about
>the content of the position, that black cannot really defend
>this position. you have to see it, or not.
>
>fritz, junior, shredder, ... do not see anything.
>therefore they will lose against gambit-tiger.
>they follow a paradigm that will die out.
>
>"Where do YOU want to go today ?"   :-))



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