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Subject: Re: Another example of very deep tactics that Computers cannot solve

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:32:17 12/07/01

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On December 07, 2001 at 12:48:22, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>The following position occured in one of the oldest Correspondence games
>played in America:
>[D] 2kr3r/ppp2ppp/1b3nq1/4p2b/1PB1P3/2P1B3/P1QN1PPP/R4RK1  b   - 0 1
>This game was played in 1840.
>Here black played 15...Rxd2!! Game finished with 16.Qxd2 Nxe4 17.Qc1 Bf3
>18.g3 h5! 19.Bd5 h4 20.Bxe4 Qxe4 21.Bxb6 Qg4 22.Qe3 axb6 23.R(f)-b1  e4
>24.Qe1 f5! 25.Rb2 f4 26.R(a)-b1  Black announced Mate in Some number of moves.
>Fritz 6 and chessmaster 8000 donot see 15...Rxd2!! No matter how long one runs
>the position.
>Does your program see 15...Rxd2!!!.Althuogh Tactics is the area that Computers
>are naturally strong ;it is interesting that one still runs into tactical
>positions which programs cannot solve.Please indicate your result.

Yace did not find it in 999 seconds.

white ( 1): epdtest \rxd2.epd
2kr3r/ppp2ppp/1b3nq1/4p2b/1PB1P3/2P1B3/P1QN1PPP/R4RK1 b - - bm Rxd2;
Stored 39 learned positions into hash table
solution  Rxd2!
usetime = 998.00, mintime = 998.00 maxtime = 998.00 tl 998.00 ml 0
        71   0.002  -0.95  1t  1...Rxd2 2.Qxd2 Qxe4 {-80}
        85   0.002   0.48  1t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 {0}
       155   0.003   0.48  1.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 {0}
       194   0.003   0.48  2t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 {0}
      1055   0.006   0.48  2.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 {0}
      2219   0.011   0.62  3t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.a3 {0}
      3549   0.014   0.62  3.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.a3 {0}
      7453   0.024   0.80  4t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rae1 Kb8 {0}
     14093   0.039   0.80  4.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rae1 Kb8 {0}
     33029   0.092   0.72  5t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qh6 3.Rfe1 Kb8 4.a3 {0}
     79568   0.200   0.72  5.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qh6 3.Rfe1 Kb8 4.a3 {0}
    114023   0.281   0.81  6t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qh6 3.Rfe1 Kb8 4.a3 Qg5 {0}
    177172   0.420   0.81  6.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qh6 3.Rfe1 Kb8 4.a3 Qg5 {0}
    327843   0.798   0.77  7t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.Rae1 Rd6 4.Nf3 Re8H
                               5.Nd2H {0}
    673032   1.494   0.77  7.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.Rae1 Rd6 4.Nf3 Re8 5.Nd2
                               {0}
   1314869   3.165   0.97  8t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd6 4.Kh1 Ng4 5.Nf1
                               Rhd8 {0}
   1905069   4.366   0.97  8.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd6 4.Kh1 Ng4 5.Nf1
                               Rhd8 {0}
   3439891   8.240   0.90  9t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd6 4.Bb5 a6 5.Ba4
                               Rhd8 6.Nc4H {0}
   6079958  14.006   0.90  9.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd6 4.Bb5 a6 5.Ba4
                               Rhd8 6.Nc4 {0}
   9241664  21.804   1.02 10t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd7 4.Bb5 c6 5.Bf1
                               Rhd8 6.Nc4 Kb8 {0}
  15556107  35.656   1.02 10.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd7 4.Bb5 c6 5.Bf1
                               Rhd8 6.Nc4 Kb8 {0}
  27200385  1:04.1   1.02 11t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd7 4.Bb5 c6 5.Bc4
                               Rhd8 6.Nb3 Bf3 7.Nc5 {HT} {0}
  48013913  1:49.4   1.02 11.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Qg5 3.Rfe1 Rd7 4.Bb5 c6 5.Bc4
                               Rhd8 6.Nb3 Bf3 7.Nc5 {HT} {0}
 126068338  5:23.4   0.87 12t  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.Rae1 Rhe8 4.a3 Rd6 5.Rf5
                               Bg4 6.Rf2 Red8 7.Ref1 h6 {0}
 211068163  8:45.4   0.87 12.  1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.Rae1 Rhe8 4.a3 Rd6 5.Rf5
                               Bg4 6.Rf2 Red8 7.Ref1 h6 {0}
 377491389 16:37.9   0.87 12f. 1...Bxe3 2.fxe3 Kb8 3.Rae1 Rhe8 4.a3 Rd6 5.Rf5
                               Bg4 6.Rf2 Red8 7.Ref1 h6 {0}
377491389 Nodes, 38.42% Leavenodes, 378251 Nodes/sec
291219157 eval, 40.44% score, 1389151509 genmoves, 18.53% captures le 301/368
ext: pawn 11440, rcp 1743797, chk 6132469, repchk 856027, null 36048, prune 3183
6055
htable: 297778687 store, 0 rejected, 369225461 probe, 23.4% f/p, 29.0% f/s
entries 2666664 age 0 renew 0
egtb probes 0, found 0 max_depth 43
solution not found
  1 tested,   0 found,   0 mates
377491389 nodes, 145024671 leavenodes in 998.21 sec 378169 n/s
test nodes 377491389 win nodes 0 mate nodes 0
win time 0.00 mate time 0.00 av depth 12.000 (nm 12.000) maxdepth 43, tu 973
log(win_nodes) = 0.00000 log(win_time) = 0.00000



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