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Subject: Re: Hard position for programs !!

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 05:01:16 07/03/00

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On July 02, 2000 at 12:48:04, Côme wrote:

>
>Hello in this position of a game Leotard-Rufenacht does your chess program
>find the winning move Bc4! .
>
>[D]8/p3k1p1/1p4p1/5p2/3Pp2P/1BK1P3/P4PP1/5b2 w - -
>
>Best Regards
>Alexandre Côme

My modified Crafty finds 1. Bc4 in 26 sec. This version doesn't do a null move
search for the first 7 plies if the side to move has only a rook or less
material.

               12->   9.64   0.09   1. g3 Bb5 2. a4 Bd7 3. Kb4 Bc8 4. Bd5
                                    Ba6 5. f4 exf3 6. Bxf3 Bd3 7. d5
               13    19.63   0.10   1. g3 Bb5 2. a4 Be2 3. Bc4 Bd1 4. Bb5
                                    a6 5. Bxa6 Bxa4 6. Kd2 Kd6 7. Bc4
               13    25.88   0.24   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 f4 3. exf4 Bh3 4.
                                    Kb5 Bc8 5. Kc6 Bd7+ 6. Kb7 b5 7. Bd5
                                    a5 8. Bxe4
         (2)   13->  25.89   0.24   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 f4 3. exf4 Bh3 4.
                                    Kb5 Bc8 5. Kc6 Bd7+ 6. Kb7 b5 7. Bd5
                                    a5 8. Bxe4
               14    31.64   0.28   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bd7 <HT>
               14->  32.88   0.28   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bd7 <HT>
               15    39.71   0.31   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bc8+ 8. Kb5 Bd7+ 9. Kb4 Kb7
         (2)   15->  48.47   0.31   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bc8+ 8. Kb5 Bd7+ 9. Kb4 Kb7
               16     1:05   0.50   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bc8+ 8. Kb5 Bd7+ 9. Kb4 a5+ 10. Kc3
                                    Kb7
               16->   1:07   0.50   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bc8+ 8. Kb5 Bd7+ 9. Kb4 a5+ 10. Kc3
                                    Kb7
               17     1:43   0.59   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Kc7 6. Kxa7 Bf3 7. Ka6
                                    Bd1 8. Kb5 Bf3 9. a4
         (2)   17->   3:18   0.59   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Kc7 6. Kxa7 Bf3 7. Ka6
                                    Bd1 8. Kb5 Bf3 9. a4
               18     4:15   0.60   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Kc7 6. Kxa7 Bh3 7. d6+
                                    Kc6 8. d7 Kxd7 9. Kxb6 Bg4 10. Kc5
                                    Bf3
         (2)   18->   6:32   0.60   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Kc7 6. Kxa7 Bh3 7. d6+
                                    Kc6 8. d7 Kxd7 9. Kxb6 Bg4 10. Kc5
                                    Bf3
               19     8:34   0.49   1. Bc4 Bxg2 2. Kb4 Kd6 3. Kb5 Kc7 4.
                                    Ka6 Kb8 5. d5 Bh3 6. d6 f4 7. exf4
                                    Bf5 <HT>
              time=10:00  cpu=204%  mat=0  n=290997218  fh=10%  nps=484785
              ext-> checks=7258944 recaps=1312287 pawns=2250930 1rep=130827
thrt:167
              predicted=0  nodes=290997218  evals=26886604
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
              hashing-> trans/ref=37%  pawn=13%  used=99%
              SMP->  split=2692  stop=245  data=10/64  cpu=20:24  elap=10:00

Kind regards

Bernhard



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