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Subject: Re: How is the cAP-code in Crafty 17.0 doing (added with some questions)

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 12:04:44 10/23/99

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On October 23, 1999 at 12:52:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 23, 1999 at 11:14:07, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>I want to try it myself ;-)!!!
>>
>>Michel Langeveld
>
>
>It is too early to say.  Compared to the opening book I use, less than 100K
>of the positions have CAP scores.  Which means that many positions have no
>data at all.

I have no idea how much positions your book contains but it sounds terrible.
Maybe we have to add an project for CAP which is called "Crafty Book".
All positions of the Crafty book has to be examined.

CAP is a great project but unfortunately it's not going as fast as I would like
to see it going. Does someone know some very fast machines which are free for
this project??

>Another problem is that the CAP data is of the form
>
>  <position>  <score>  <best move>
>

In the CAP data is also included:
<ply>
<number of nodes examined>
<analysis variation>

which might be very interesting to use these in Crafty.

I have also no idea if all positions of a certain variation are also in the CAP
base. For example if 1.e4 h6 is a found in CAP as the best line that also that
also 1.e4 and 1.e4 h6 are examined. And It might be that when doing a minimax
again over all the data that 1.e4 e5 is found the very best.

>I can use that... but what I _really_ need to do, and I don't have the code
>to do yet, is to do a simple minimax of the CAP scores back up thru the book.

Right this is what I described above too!

>IE if the best move in position P is Rh1 with a score of +1.3, then I need to
>know that any move that leads to position P (with no cap score in the file)
>ought to have a score of -1.3.  I don't do this yet, which hurts.  I think it
>will be even more useful once I have time to write that code.

Do you have an idea of how many positions are then filled with CAP data in the
book?

Are you goining to extend the book with an extra flag which indicates a score is
is a real CAP-data-score or a score is a "moved-up" one? (By the way I remember
BOOKUP is has facilities to do this)

Is having the book minimax with your algorithm a think which HAS to be done
before releasing Crafty 17.0?
In other words what has to be done before 17.0 can be released?

CAP data are positions which has roughly 100.000.000 of nodes examined. Do you
know on what hardware Crafty reach such numbers in a normal game? And is it
possible to add those positions in a seperate file so than can immediatly added
to CAP?

Will crafty 17.0 also scan in the CAP-data in a normal minimax when it has left
to book is is the book the only place wher CAP data is used at the moment?

Kind regards,

Michel Langeveld



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