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Subject: Re: A test position to see if your program is materialistic(most are not)

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 22:46:41 11/12/01

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On November 12, 2001 at 06:22:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>This position could happen in my crrespondence game
>
>[D]2r2rk1/p3q1pp/1p6/2bp1p2/4n3/1P2P1P1/PB3PBP/1QR1RbK1 w - - 0 25
>
>If your program plays Bxe4 then it is materialistic(Bxe4 is the only move that
>does not lose material)
>
>If it plays Rxf1 then it is not materialistic
>
>It seems that most programs are not materialistic based on the test that I did.
>I guess also that most humans are not materialistic here and are going to prefer
>Rxf1

Result of Hossa v1.138 (Athlon 900)

    1    -0.14    0.00        2 1.e1xf1
   <1>   -0.14    0.01       36 1.e1xf1
    2    -0.22    0.01      144 1.e1xf1 c5b4
   <2>   -0.22    0.01      465 1.e1xf1 c5b4
    3    -0.07    0.02     1084 1.e1xf1 c5a3 2.b2xa3 e7xa3
   <3>   -0.07    0.03     1465 1.e1xf1 c5a3 2.b2xa3 e7xa3
    4    -0.10    0.08     4666 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1
   <4>   -0.10    0.16     7876 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1
    5    -0.10    0.28    14853 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
   <5>   -0.10    0.46    25038 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
    6    -0.10    0.83    57132 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1
   <6>   -0.10    1.27    84324 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1
    7    -0.07    2.26   165953 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1 e7g5
   <7>   -0.07    3.04   223820 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1 e7g5
    8    -0.09    5.34   448475 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1 c5b4 5.c1d1
   <8>   -0.09    6.88   567822 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.d3xf1 c5b4 5.c1d1
    9    -0.20   11.36   971118 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.c1xf1 c5d6 5.f1d1 d6e5
   <9>   -0.20   19.77  1711864 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.c1xf1 c5d6 5.f1d1 d6e5
   10    -0.27   27.90  2534962 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.c1xf1 c5d6 5.f1d1 d6e5 6.b2d4
  <10>   -0.27   46.40  4262346 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.c1xf1 c5d6 5.f1d1 d6e5 6.b2d4
   11    -0.38    1:07  6368073 1.e1xf1 e4d2 2.g2xd5 Kh8 3.b1d3 d2xf1
                                4.Kxf1 c8d8 5.Kg1 e7d6 6.c1d1 f8f7


Greetings,
Steffen.



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