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Subject: Re: Paderborn: two impressive moves by Rybka

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 05:31:32 12/28/05

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On December 28, 2005 at 03:29:50, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On December 27, 2005 at 10:40:05, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>Rybka's 21-move miniature against Jonny was all the more interesting because of
>>two spectacular moves. Can your engines find them?
>>
>>[D]2k3nr/1ppr1qpp/p4p2/3P3b/1b6/4BN1P/PP1N1PP1/2RQR1K1 w - - 0 16
>>
>>16.Nc4 deserves multiple exclamation points, especially due to the follow-up
>>expected next move.
>>
>>I give Rybka VP 32-bit's analysis running on an Athlon 3500+ Venice (512 MB
>>hash) here in contrast:
>>
>>Analysis by Rybka 1.01 Preview 2 32-bit:
>>
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Bf4 Nh6 19.Nc4
>>  ²  (0.48)   Depth: 10   00:00:03  460kN
>>16.Nc4 Bxe1 17.Nb6+ Kb8 18.Nxd7+ Qxd7 19.Qd4 b6 20.Nxe1 Ne7
>>  ²  (0.61)   Depth: 10   00:00:05  786kN
>>16.Nc4 Bxe1 17.Nb6+ Kd8 18.Nxd7 Qxd7 19.Qxe1 Bxf3 20.gxf3 Ne7 21.d6
>>  ²  (0.52)   Depth: 11   00:00:07  1199kN
>>16.Nc4 Bxe1 17.Nb6+ Kd8 18.Nxd7 Qxd7 19.Qxe1 Bxf3 20.gxf3 Ne7 21.d6 Nc6
>>  =  (0.20)   Depth: 12   00:00:16  2588kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Kd8 19.Qa7 Ne7 20.Bf4
>>  ±  (1.26)   Depth: 12   00:00:24  3914kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Kd8 19.Qa7 Ne7 20.Bf4 Nc8
>>  ±  (1.19)   Depth: 13   00:00:31  4968kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Kd8 19.Qa7 Ne7 20.Bf4 Nc8 21.Qb8 c6
>>  ±  (1.10)   Depth: 14   00:00:46  7296kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Kd8 19.Qa7 Ne7 20.Bf4 Nc8 21.Qb8 g5
>>  ±  (1.25)   Depth: 15   00:01:26  13585kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Ne7 19.Qa7 b5 20.Qxa6+ Bb7 21.Qxb5 Qxa2 22.Nc4
>>Bc6
>>  ±  (1.25)   Depth: 16   00:02:41  26031kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Ne7 19.Qa7 b5 20.Qxa6+ Bb7 21.Qxb5 Qd5 22.Qxd5
>>Bxd5
>>  ±  (1.36)   Depth: 17   00:06:23  63726kN
>>16.Qb3 Bxf3 17.Qxb4 Bxd5 18.Qb6 Ne7 19.Qa7 b5 20.Qxa6+ Bb7 21.Qxb5 Qd5 22.Qxd5
>>Bxd5
>>  ±  (1.12)   Depth: 18   00:12:48  129472kN
>>16.Nc4 Bxe1
>>  +-  (2.07)   Depth: 18   00:42:53  407226kN
>>
>
>Rybka VP is playing in Paderborn. Ernst's output shows that the move was found
>on the 17th ply. The difference is almost certainly a hash effect - he's using 1
>GB, and his hash table has entries from the previous search and maybe a ponder
>search if there was no ponderhit.
>
>Vas

I can believe it. I ran the same position using only 256 Mb hash, and guess
what? I was unable to find it at the 18th.

                                        Albert



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