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Subject: Re: Would Hiarcs 7.32 Win in a Match against....

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:13:24 06/01/00

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On June 01, 2000 at 10:00:18, stuart taylor wrote:

>On June 01, 2000 at 03:48:12, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On May 31, 2000 at 02:29:21, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On May 31, 2000 at 01:40:08, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 30, 2000 at 21:43:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 30, 2000 at 17:54:45, Joshua Lee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On May 30, 2000 at 17:02:40, blass uri wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On May 30, 2000 at 16:51:08, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I just noticed on ssdf rating list details, that hiarcs7.32 on 450mhz. beat
>>>>>>>>fritz 3 on 90mhz. 18.5 to 3.5. That fritz was very similar to the exact thing
>>>>>>>>which beat deep blue at the time.ah!!!! so what do you say to that?
>>>>>>>>S.Taylor
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I say that it is less than 90% and I read that Deep thought(not deep blue) got
>>>>>>>more than 90% against Fritz3(p90)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I do not know if to believe to the last claim because they did not do the games
>>>>>>>public and I have no idea if the games are tournament time control or faster
>>>>>>>time control(I am interested only in tournament time control games).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>>How about Hiarcs on my Athlon 800 Clocked to 880Mhz?
>>>>>>I think if it is still taking Hiarcs  on Pos 3 of the LCTII test 49minutes to
>>>>>>solve it at 11ply  and Deep Thought of 1989 which played Kasparov was searching
>>>>>>2M nps and 12Ply in 40/2 then Most computers would in fact win a game or two but
>>>>>>not a match. also Deep Thought of 1988 at 750,000 nodes per second would be
>>>>>>better but i have looked at games of the pre 1990 computers and can only say
>>>>>>that Hiarcs has to be better than some of those computers because it can spot
>>>>>>the mistakes right off the bat and wouldn't play the loosing move in the first
>>>>>>place. I'll find the game.... other than that my reasoning was just that the
>>>>>>opening books caused those programs to lose.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>maybe everyone interested should have their respective software analyze older
>>>>>>games like that of Cray Blitz and Hitech.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I did this for the 1986 WCCC event (Cray Blitz only). I was amazed that Crafty
>>>>>did not find one single tactical blunder, even though Crafty of today is
>>>>>searching far faster than CB of 1986 (we were doing about 160K nodes per second
>>>>>back then on an 8 cpu YMP I believe).  I used "annotate" for each game played.
>>>>>
>>>>>Chris whittington raised the question of a really ugly looking move Bh7 against
>>>>>Bobby I think.  And he criticized it endlessly.  And then we discovered that it
>>>>>was forced and CSTal also liked the _same_ move.  :)
>>>>>
>>>>>That says a lot about the robustness of a good 1986 search on pretty good 1986
>>>>>hardware.  It is easy to reproduce the test since crafty will annotate a
>>>>>collection of PGN game scores (in a single file) at one batch run,
>>>>>automatically.
>>>>>
>>>>>I think you will find that the tactical mistakes of the 1986 supercomputers are
>>>>>_very_ hard to find with today's PC machines.
>>>>
>>>>Tactical mistakes of deep thought are not hard to find with today PC's program.
>>>>The last one was against Fritz3 but I found more mistakes in some games that
>>>>they lost or did not win.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>I can add that I can see tactical mistake of Deeper blue in the game that it
>>>lost
>>>
>>>[D]4r3/8/2p2PPk/1p1r4/pP2p1R1/P1B5/2P2K2/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Deeper blue played Rd1 instead of Rf5+
>>>
>>>Rf5+ is losing but the logfiles of deeper blue showed that it did not see the
>>>line Rf5+ Ke3(chessmaster(ss=10) can see it after 82 seconds and
>>>
>>>Rd5f5 kf2e2 Re8g8 pg6g7 Kh6h5 rg4g1 Rf5f3 bc3b2 Kh5h6 rg1g4 Rf3f5 bb2d4 Pe4e3
>>>ke2e3P Rf5f1 ke3e4 Rf1f6p was the main line with evaluation of -210 before Rf5+
>>>failed low with evaluation of -260
>>>
>>>The final main line is a bad main line:
>>>
>>>Rd5d1 pf6f7 Rd1f1 kf2f1R Kh6h5 pf7e8R/q Kh5g4r with evaluation of -180 when
>>>white has a simple mate after these stupid moves.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Interesting indeed...
>>
>>The log-file in question:
>>
>>#[Rf5](-210)[Rf5](-210) -210v T=73
>>Rd5f5 kf2e2 Re8g8 pg6g7 Kh6h5 rg4g1 Rf5f3 bc3b2 Kh5h6 rg1g4 Rf3f5 bb2d4 Pe4e3
>>ke2e3P Rf5f1 ke3e4 Rf1f6p
>>
>>11(6) #[Rf5](-260)v[find a move]#########[TIMEOUT][et3  1295 sec]
>>
>>#[Rg8](-183)[Rd1](-180) -180  T=204
>>Rd5d1 pf6f7 Rd1f1 kf2f1R Kh6h5 pf7e8R/q Kh5g4r
>>
>>Analysis of Rf5+ (using Analysis Include):
>>
>>00:00:06  9.00  -1.70   1..Rf5+ 2.Ke1 e3 3.f7 Rd8 4.Ke2
>>                        Kh5 5.g7 Rxf7 6.g8=Q  (1)
>>
>>00:00:23 10.00  -1.73   1..Rf5+ 2.Ke3 Rf3 3.Ke2 Rxc3 4.f7
>>                        Rd8 5.g7 Rxc2 6.Ke1 Rc1 7.Kf2 e3
>>                        8.Kg2 Rc2 9.Kh3 e2 10.g8=Q  (6)
>>
>>00:00:58 11.00  -1.73   1..Rf5+ 2.Ke3 Rf3 3.Ke2 Rxc3 4.f7
>>                        Rd8 5.g7 Rxc2 6.Ke1 Rc1 7.Kf2 e3
>>                        8.Kg2 Rc2 9.Kh3  (23)
>>
>>00:02:41 12.00  -2.21   1..Rf5+ 2.Ke2 Rg8 3.g7 Kh5 4.Rg1
>>
>>00:06:24 13.00  -2.37   1..Rf5+ 2.Ke3 Rf3 3.Ke2 Rg8 4.Bd2
>>                        Kh5 5.Rg5 Kh4 6.f7 Rg7 7.Re5 Kg3
>>                        8.Be1 Kg2  (161)
>>
>>So a constantly dropping score for Rf5+
>>
>>Then Analysis of Rd1 (using Analysis Include):
>>
>>00:00:04  9.00  -3.27   1..Rd1 2.f7 Rf8 3.Ke3 Rdd8 4.Bf6
>>                        Ra8 5.Be7 Kg7 6.Bxf8 Rxf8  (1)
>>
>>00:00:11 10.00  -3.48   1..Rd1 2.g7 Rd5 3.Ke2 Rf5 4.Rh4
>>                        Kg6 5.Rh8 Rg8 6.Rxg8 Rf3  (4)
>>
>>00:00:31 11.00  -3.71   1..Rd1 2.g7 Rd5 3.Ke2 Rf5 4.Rh4
>>                        Kg6 5.Rh8 Rg8 6.Rxg8 Rxf6  (11)
>>
>>00:01:25 12.00  -4.03   1..Rd1 2.g7 Rd5 3.Ke2 Rd7 4.g8=Q
>>                        Rxg8  (31)
>>
>>00:03:49 13.00  -4.20   1..Rd1 2.g7 Rd5 3.Ke2 Rd7 4.g8=Q
>>                        Rxg8  (85)
>>
>>Rf5+ looks clearly better and the score of -1.80 for Rd1 given by
>>DB looks ridiculous and I don't understand it either.
>>
>>Ed
>
>
>Well I've got news for you. Hiarcs 7 finds rf5 instantly, and stays with it for
>several hours, then the evaluation jumps to -460 on ply 12, and then rejects it.
>It then settles on rg8 by the end of ply 12. about -380 eval.
>  That took about 15 hours, so I didn't spend more time on it at this stage.
>But that indicates that deeper blue had his reasons, and it also indicates that
>hiarcs is closing up the gaps.
>S.Taylor

This indicates nothing because the claim was not that Rf5 is the best move but
that Rd1 is worse than Rf5.

Uri



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