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Subject: Re: How well does your favorite program do?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 01:59:56 05/22/99

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On May 21, 1999 at 23:28:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 21, 1999 at 22:21:27, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>[cough, blush]
>>>[White "Glucksberg"]
>>>[Black "Najdorf"]
>At 15 minutes, neither is fully understood by crafty on a PII 300.
>In the first position, it chose the wrong move, and had just realized that it
>was going to hurt.
>r1b2rk1/pp1n2pp/2p1p3/3p1pNq/2PP1Pn1/3BP1P1/PP2N1Kb/R1BQ1R2 b - - acd 13; acn
>102540168; acs 900; ce 82; pv Bxg3 Rh1 Bh2 cxd5 Ndf6 Nf3 Nxd5 Qb3 Qg6 Rxh2
>Ngxe3+ Kh1 Qg4;
>Here's the log's last little whimper:
> 12->  11:03   0.82   1. ... Bxg3 2. Rh1 Bh2 3. cxd5 Ndf6
>                      4. Nf3 Nxd5 5. Qb3 Qg6 6. Rxh2 Ngxe3+
>                      7. Kh1 Qg4
> 13    13:23     --   1. ... Bxg3
>I think half an hour will probably find it.
>
>Interesting also that crafty picked the right move for the wrong reasons early
>on (before changing to something else not as good):
>6     0.82  -0.25   1. ... Ndf6 2. c5 Ne4 3. Nxe4 fxe4
>                    4. Bc2 Qf5
>6     1.24   0.14   1. ... Bg1 2. Nxg1 Qh2+ 3. Kf3 Qh1+
>                    4. Ke2 Qg2+ 5. Ke1 Nh2 6. N1f3 Nxf1
>                    7. Bxf1 Qxg3+
>6->   1.45   0.14   1. ... Bg1 2. Nxg1 Qh2+ 3. Kf3 Qh1+
>                    4. Ke2 Qg2+ 5. Ke1 Nh2 6. N1f3 Nxf1
>                    7. Bxf1 Qxg3+
>7     1.92   0.14   1. ... Bg1 2. Nxg1 Qh2+ 3. Kf3 Qh1+
>                    4. Ke2 Qg2+ 5. Ke1 Nh2 6. N1f3 Nxf1
>                    7. Bxf1 Qxg3+
>7     6.24   0.18   1. ... e5 2. Rh1 e4 3. Bc2 dxc4 4.
>                    Ne6 Rf6
>
>On the second position, Crafty flipped back and forth with Qh1+ and e5 until ply
>8 at 25.5 seconds.  But even by ply 11, crafty was only aware of a one pawn
>advantage:
>r1b2rk1/pp1n2pp/2p1p3/3p1pN1/2PP1Pn1/3BPKP1/PP5q/R1BQ1RN1 b - - acd 12; acn
>110502697; acs 900; ce 101; pv e5 cxd5 e4+ Bxe4 fxe4+ Kxe4 Nf2+ Rxf2 Qxf2 dxc6
>bxc6 Kd3 Nf6 Ne2 Ba6+ Kd2;

Whoops, I missed your response initially, I guess I didn't have the first Crafty
results. :-)

Did you clear the position.lrn and position.bin files before tackling the second
problem?  I got different variations when I tried it.. but I am running on 2
processors, that could be why.

Dave




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