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Subject: Re: DB doesn't do NULL move????

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:35:09 06/28/98

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On June 28, 1998 at 22:19:39, jonathan Baxter wrote:

>On June 28, 1998 at 21:24:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>null-move is speculative.  Cray Blitz is tactically stronger than any
>>program I know of today excepting Deep Blue, based on things like the
>>Win At Chess results I have posted here before.  It uses null-move, R=1,
>>non-recursive (only one null move in any single path).
>
>So where can I find these Win At Chess results? On this note,
>I did an experiment with KnightCap the other day on some winatchess problems
>(Andrew has them in the KnightCap source code directory but I don't know where
>they came from . the file is called "difficult.fin"). I changed the evaluation
>function to just material and tested on the problems with 30s to find a
>solution. KnightCap gets 78% correct, compared to only about 30% with the full
>eval.
>
>Jonathan Baxter

Good question.  But I just got some of the latest results from my chess partner
at Livermore Labs...  CB (running on a T932 (32 processor T90, 2 gigawords (16
gigabytes) of memory) gets 297 in under 1 second (it reports the time as 0
seconds, but only displays whole seconds.  two take 1 second, and 1 takes 7
seconds.  An older version didn't have that 7 second spike, not sure what caused
it.  This was on the last version we did of Cray blitz, called Cray Blitz
version 43i.  It is *very* fast, the output says it averaged just over 11M nodes
per sec on the 300 positions.



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