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Subject: Re: Disappointment as Fritz 5,6+Hiarcs fail to find this elegant move! WHY?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:40:05 05/09/00

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Crafty's choices (on a machine doing a lot of stuff, so the times will not be
very representitive):

Crafty 17.10 vs ferret
pondering disabled.
EGTB cache memory = 6M bytes.
hash table memory = 24M bytes.
pawn hash table memory = 8M bytes.
EGTB access enabled
using tbpath=e:/crafty/release/tb,F:/KBP
6 piece tablebase files found
1943kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables


Crafty v17.10

White(1): epdpfga epd.epd epd.out
PFGA: EPD record: 1
middle-game phase
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 30:00 (30:00)
         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
                6     1.30   0.56   1. Qh2 b4 2. Bg5 Bg7 3. Bxf6 Bxf6 4.
                                    Nd5
                6->   1.84   0.56   1. Qh2 b4 2. Bg5 Bg7 3. Bxf6 Bxf6 4.
                                    Nd5
                7     3.69     ++   1. Qh2!!
                7->   4.91   0.95   1. Qh2 b4 2. Bg5 Bg7 3. Bxf6 Bxf6 4.
                                    Nd5
                8    13.70   1.18   1. Qh2 Qd8 2. Qh4 Qc7 3. Bf8 Nh5 4.
                                    Bxe7 Bxc3 5. bxc3
                8->  15.09   1.18   1. Qh2 Qd8 2. Qh4 Qc7 3. Bf8 Nh5 4.
                                    Bxe7 Bxc3 5. bxc3
                9    31.63   1.15   1. Qh2 Qd8 2. Nd2 Rcc8 3. Qh4 b4 4.
                                    Bf8 Bg7 5. Bxg7 Kxg7
                9->  36.11   1.15   1. Qh2 Qd8 2. Nd2 Rcc8 3. Qh4 b4 4.
                                    Bf8 Bg7 5. Bxg7 Kxg7
               10     1:46   1.45   1. Qh2 Rxc3 2. bxc3 Nxg4 3. fxg4 Qxc3
                                    4. Rdg1 Qb2+ 5. Kd1 Qxa2 6. Qf2
               10     3:35   1.75   1. Bg5 Bg7 2. Bxf6 exf6 3. Qxd6 Be8
                                    4. Qxc7 Rxc7 5. Nd5 Rd7 6. Nc5 Rd6
               10->   3:36   1.75   1. Bg5 Bg7 2. Bxf6 exf6 3. Qxd6 Be8
                                    4. Qxc7 Rxc7 5. Nd5 Rd7 6. Nc5 Rd6
               11     5:53   1.83   1. Bg5 Bg7 2. Bxf6 exf6 3. Qxd6 Be8
                                    4. Qxc7 Rxc7 5. Nd5 Rc4 6. c3 Bc6 7.
                                    Ne7+ Kf8 8. Nxc6 Rxc6
               11->   6:30   1.83   1. Bg5 Bg7 2. Bxf6 exf6 3. Qxd6 Be8
                                    4. Qxc7 Rxc7 5. Nd5 Rc4 6. c3 Bc6 7.
                                    Ne7+ Kf8 8. Nxc6 Rxc6
               12    10:10   1.78   1. Bg5 Bg7 2. Bxf6 exf6 3. Qxd6 Be8
                                    4. Qxc7 Rxc7 5. Nd5 Rc4 6. Na5 Rc5
                                    7. Nb3 Rcc8
               12    29:32   1.95   1. e5 Rc8 2. exf6 Bxf6 3. Rh2 Bxc3
                                    4. bxc3 Rxc3 5. Rdh1 e5 6. Qe2 Bc6
                                    7. Rh3
              time=30:01  cpu=100%  mat=0  n=201199529  fh=92%  nps=111875
              ext-> checks=6841524 recaps=605200 pawns=268880 1rep=789903
thrt:126189
              predicted=0  nodes=201199529  evals=50317034
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
White(1): quit
execution complete.

So it's Qh2 up to ply 10, then Bg5 at ply ten, and then e5 at ply 12.
We could think of them as all good moves, but by ages.
Qh2 is the junior move.
Bg5 is the club player.
e5 is the master.
Bf8 is the GM move.

I think I will try some other programs to see what they will do also.
This position is especially interesting because new depths show genunitely
better moves, and none of them is trivial except the first.





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