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Subject: Re: Testposition - Avoid Stalemate

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 08:38:31 03/18/01

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On March 18, 2001 at 10:16:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 18, 2001 at 07:34:42, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>On March 17, 2001 at 21:08:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On March 17, 2001 at 12:21:45, Sune Larsson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  8/2R5/k7/P7/2PK4/8/1P2r3/8 w - - 0 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  This position was sent to me just two hours ago (thanks!)
>>>>  White has a won position but must avoid the last trap,
>>>>  which is 1.b4?? and a draw. The programs I have tried
>>>>  sees this but in different speed. (PIII 800)
>>>>
>>>>  Deep Fritz     0 sec
>>>>  Nimzo 8        2  "
>>>>  Hiarcs 7.32    2  "
>>>>  Crafty 18.03  20  "
>>>>  Fritz 5.32    48  "
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Test: 1) Does your program realize that 1.b4?? is a draw?
>>>>        2) How much time needed?
>>>>
>>>>  Sune
>>>
>>>
>>>I am trying to understand your question.
>>>
>>>On my PIII/750 notebook, crafty changes from b4 to Kc3 after
>>>4 seconds... and never considers b4 again...
>>>
>>>If I play b4 myself, it takes .8 seconds to get a score
>>>of 0.00...
>>>
>>>Not sure why yours took 20 seconds to see that...
>>
>>
>> Here is the output from Crafty 18.03, CB native, PIII 800, 128 MB Hash.
>> Infinite analyse mode:
>>
>>
>>Ny ställning
>>8/2R5/k7/P7/2PK4/8/1P2r3/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Analysis by Crafty 18.03:
>>
>>1.b4
>>  +-  (4.88)   Djup: 1/2   00:00:01
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6
>>  +-  (4.78)   Djup: 5/9   00:00:01
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6
>>  +-  (4.78)   Djup: 5/9   00:00:01
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6
>>  +-  (4.78)   Djup: 5/9   00:00:01
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6
>>  +-  (4.78)   Djup: 5/9   00:00:01
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6
>>  +-  (4.58)   Djup: 6/13   00:00:01  8kN, tb=18
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Td6+
>>  +-  (4.58)   Djup: 7/14   00:00:01  15kN, tb=21
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Te4+ 6.Kd7 Td4+ 7.Ke7 Td1
>>  +-  (4.48)   Djup: 8/16   00:00:01  31kN, tb=41
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Te4+ 6.Kd7 Td4+ 7.Ke8 Te4+
>>8.Kd8
>>  +-  (4.38)   Djup: 9/17   00:00:01  66kN, tb=129
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Te4+ 6.Kf6 Te6+ 7.Kg5 Te5+
>>8.Kf4 Te4+ 9.Kf5 Td4
>>  +-  (4.38)   Djup: 10/19   00:00:02  137kN, tb=270
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Te4+ 6.Kf6 Tf4+ 7.Kg6 Tf6+
>>8.Kh5 Tf5+ 9.Kh6 Tf6+ 10.Kg5 Te6
>>  +-  (4.18)   Djup: 11/21   00:00:03  347kN, tb=693
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Te4+ 6.Kf6 Tf4+ 7.Kg6 Tg4+
>>8.Kh6 Tg6+ 9.Kh5 Tg5+ 10.Kh4 Tg4+ 11.Kh3 Tf4
>>  +-  (4.00)   Djup: 12/25   00:00:05  765kN, tb=1686
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kd5 Td4+ 3.Ke5 Te4+ 4.Kd6 Td4+ 5.Ke6 Te4+ 6.Kf6 Tf4+ 7.Kg6 Tg4+
>>8.Kh6 Tg6+ 9.Kh5 Tg5+ 10.Kh4 Tg4+ 11.Kh3 Tg3+ 12.Kh2 Tf3
>>  +-  (4.00)   Djup: 13/25   00:00:12  2668kN, tb=5042
>>1.b4 Te4+ 2.Kc5 Txc4+ 3.Kd6 Txb4
>>  =  (0.01)   Djup: 14/29   00:00:26  6649kN, tb=13601
>>1.Kc3
>>  ²  (0.41)   Djup: 14/29   00:00:28  7605kN, tb=14685
>>
>>(Larsson, KIL 18.03.2001)
>
>
>Something is odd there.    ie above, 3 seconds, 347K nodes.  That doesn't
>look like a PIII/800 speed.  My PIII/750 searches at about 500K nodes per
>second, rather than your 115K.
>
>Is something else running at the same time?

 Hm... you're absolutely right, something was wrong here. I remember that
 I made a fresh reboot, then checked the taskinfo, which showed about 99% idle,
 then loaded Crafty with 128 MB hash. Hm... maybe that was too much at that
 particular moment. Nothing else was running at the same time. Maybe memory
 swapping, though I have 256 MB. Anyway, a new check showed 2 sec - 765kN and
 5 sec - 2657 kN, much better figures.
 Strange is that Crafty 18.03 seems to reach 1.Kc3 faster
 in Deep Fritz GUI than Fritz6 GUI... In DF 1.Kc3 was chosen after 4 sec with
 2135 kN. Much better. Have to be careful with these things... ;)

 Thanks
 Sune



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