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Subject: Re: Win at Chess suite

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 14:11:14 01/12/98

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At 5 seconds a move on a Pentium 133mhz I get 217 out of 300.
Not great, I know. Your result is impressive. What release number
of Crafty will this be?

On January 12, 1998 at 15:04:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I have just finished cleaning everything up, relative to the null-move
>mate extension and hash table refinement discussed here.  As a sanity
>check, I decided to once again run win at chess at one minute per move
>to see how Crafty would do on my Pentium Pro 200.  The best for an
>"official" version has been 297, with it typically staying around 295
>or so.
>
>here is the "crosstable" for version 14.4:
>
>       0  20  40  60  80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280
>   +------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 |   0   2   0   0   0   2   0  44   0   0   0   0   8   0   0
> 2 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   9   0  15   0
> 3 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  --   0   0  54   0   0  10
> 4 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   4   0
> 5 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   0  49   0
> 6 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
> 7 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   3   0   0
> 8 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   1
> 9 |   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  24   0  57   0
>10 |   0   3   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   1   0  --   0   0   0
>11 |   0   0   0  14   8   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   8
>12 |   0   0   0   0  51   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   5   0   0
>13 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0  33
>14 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>15 |   0   0  14   0   0   0   0   9   0   0   0  19   0   0   0
>16 |   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   0  12   0   0  12   0   0
>17 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   8   0   1  16
>18 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   3   0   0   1   0   0   0
>19 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>20 |   0   0   0   0   0   4   0   0  22  22   0   0   0   0   0
>incorrect: 163 230
>sum of times(squared)=46689
>
>The bottom line is Crafty v14.4 misses two (163 and 230) in one minute
>per move.  163 is solved in 1 minute on an alpha/500, but takes just
>over a couple of minutes on the P6/200.  230 I don't know about, but I
>think it will take longer than that, as on the alpha Crafty still did
>not get it last time I tried.
>
>Other interesting trivia.  With a limit of 30 seconds, it misses an
>additional 6 on the P6/200, although on the alpha/500 it still gets
>these right but does then mist 163.
>
>So the simple results are:
>
>    time/move          15        30          60
>    correct (P6)      287       292         298
>    correct (alpha)   294       298         299
>
>Which represents the best results I have gotten so far, discounting
>Cray Blitz of course.  Cray blitz solves 297 of 300 in < 1 second
>(as I have mentioned, that program times to the nearest second and
>reports times of 0 for 297 of the positions).  It takes 1 second (or
>a little more, but not 2 seconds) to solve 230, 92 and 222.  But this
>test was run on a *big* Cray and averaged about 5M nodes per second for
>the entire test suite, which burned 32 processors pretty well.  :)
>
>For the two I miss now, 163 is the easier to solve, and simply needs a
>bit more speed.  Null-move and razoring adversely affect some of these
>positions, as I have solved some of them quicker in the past.
>
>Sorry, but I don't have any times for a PII/300 yet, although we do have
>one.  My P5/233mmx notebook misses two more, as it is some 15% slower
>than my P6/200.
>
>Any other results to compare with?  Be interesting to see who solves
>what quickly and who has trouble with what.  I'm going to experiment
>with the chess middlegame suite Bruce mentioned.  The only thing I don't
>like is the length of time it takes to run a suite that large...



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