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Subject: Re: ICT 4 Leiden : King vs Ruffian : Ruffian wins

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:44:04 04/24/04

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On April 24, 2004 at 09:31:00, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 24, 2004 at 08:07:48, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2004 at 07:32:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On April 24, 2004 at 07:04:44, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello
>>>>
>>>>Ruffian won against The King in a tremendous endgame
>>>>
>>>>To djordje : Everything is working fine, out off book against Hydra yesterday
>>>>with
>>>>+ 0.56
>>>>
>>>>We lost against Hydra due to the depth and a wrong plan in the endgame
>>>
>>>
>>>What do you mean that you lost due to the depth.
>>>Did Ruffian need another ply to avoid the losing blunder?
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>
>>Ruffian reaches ply 18 easily here, but it still clings on to gxh4.  It needs
>>play 19 to see that things are not peachy. (BTW, Hydra was doing a 20 ply search
>>here.)  But I doubt that a single CPU version of Ruffian could actually avoid
>>the move at the Leiden time controls anyway.  As already pointed out some other
>>programs also go for the pawn.  What does Movei do?
>>
>>Djordje
>
>Movei also plays gxh4 and cannot get depth 18 easily here(only depth 13 after
>few minutes on P850).
>It believes that black is slightly better but does not see something better than
>gxh4.
>
>depth=13 -0.13 g3h4 f5f4 c3c2 f6f5 b6c4 e5d7 c4d6 f5e5 b3b4 d7c5 c2c5 e5d6 c5c7
>d6c7 b4c4
>Nodes: 32705524 NPS: 176120
>Time: 00:03:05.70
>
>Movei of today still does not use hash tables for pruning so it cannot search
>very deep in the endgame.
>
>Uri

depth=14 -0.18 g3h4 f5f4 b3c2 f6g6 a2a4 g6h5 b6a8 c7c6 a8b6 h5h4 c2d2 h4g5 a4a5
Nodes: 172090392 NPS: 175932
Time: 00:16:18.16



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