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Subject: Re: Would Gambit Tiger get itself into such a position?

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 18:18:53 10/29/00

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On October 28, 2000 at 18:35:32, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 28, 2000 at 17:59:23, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>GT did consider Bb7 for about one minute after 7 minutes of thinking on my PII
>>333 with 28 Mb hash.  The analysis was similar to Sarahs' afterward.  The score
>>did remain negative for black however.
>>
>>GT would never "under-develope" to the extent that black did.  The game is a
>>draw even with material superiority due to the horrible back rank situation. At
>>least GT tells us how "not" to play.
>>
>>
>>Tim Frohlick
>
>I posted the game.
>I do not know if gambit would get itself to the position that I posted(I think
>that bxc5 was too greedy and Ba6 was better but I did not analyze the game for a
>long time and I may be wrong).
>
>You can try to see if there is a move in the game that gambit does not like.
>
>I see that gambit understands the position better than other programs(it can at
>least see that f6 has negative score)
>
>It cannot see that Bb7 is good enough for black to draw but I am not sure if Bb7
>is really good enough for a draw(I only know that it was probably good enough
>for moshe to draw and it is possible that gambit can improve the opponent's
>moves after Bb7)
>
>Uri

Hi Uri,

Maybe Tim is right and the game should be a draw. What I would like to see is a
good winning line for White after 14. .. f7-f6 or 14. ..f7-f5, that could tell
us more.

Rebel Century 2.0 favors White after 14. ..Bc8-b7 but not after 14. ..f6 after a
not very long analysis. I'm not sure if a positive or negative score really
means that much. Q5T thinks White is better after 14. ..f6 which is what you
would maybe want to see, but that is maybe only because it values any attacking
chances in the position higher. It only makes a difference for a program if
because of the different evaluation it chooses different moves and it somehow
can thus discover a winning line for White. But in this case they still play
much the same moves so a positive or negative evaluation does not say enough, if
there isn't a probably decisive line going with it as well. Which Q5T at least
hasn't seen yet after 14. ..f6 or the score would go down further.

On the other hand, about another post below about "game #63", I'm also not
convinced that an aggressive program like Roy's 'Storm' could not be good at
defending too. The scores might favor the attacking party but if there are good
defending moves it would probably find them. Maybe a little slower than an
allround program if you first prefed it the attacking moves, but I doubt that.
Maybe there could be a problem if somehow the defending party has the
possibility of counterattacking and it could choose to do that too soon, just as
it could be too fast with an attack in other situations. I find that Q5T
normally is able to refute its own stupid attacks given enough time. Because of
the DEEPER search it reaches the higher plies needed for that, -it is more
selective than default so that can be a reason it does not see some things at
shallower plies-, not very quickly if it needs twelve ply for instance and has
not much hash memory available. Storm does not use DEEPER search and also has
default Selectivity so that is very different again. I think it is worth
investigating how good these personalities and attacking programs are at also
finding good defences, regardless of possible scores favouring the attacker.
They go look for attacking chances for both sides which should mean that they
can find the sharp lines in a position quicker. And sometimes they overvalue
them or they miss something vitally important there. Gambit Tiger is probably
much better than Q5T about not getting itself in a fix by too optimistic
attacks.

Rebel Century 2.0 after 14. ..f7-f6:

Last Move : 1... f6 (White to play)

00:02  06.01  0.27  1..Nc6 2.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 e5 4.fxg7 exd4+ 5.Kf1 Kxg7
00:00  04.01  -1.60  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.exf6 Nxf6 5.dxc5
00:00  05.00  -1.74  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.exf6 Nxf6 5.dxc5 Ne4
00:02  06.00  -1.16  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.exf6 Nxf6 6.Qh8+ Ng8
00:05  07.00  -1.16  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.exf6 Nxf6 6.Qh8+ Ng8
7.dxc5
00:16  08.00  -1.16  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.exf6 Nxf6 6.Qh8+ Ng8
7.dxc5
01:31  09.00  -0.48  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf7 5.exf6 Nxf6 6.Ne5+ Kf8
7.Qh8+ Ng8
01:57  10.00  -0.94  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Rg8 6.exf6
03:32  11.00  -0.48  1.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf7 5.exf6 Nxf6 6.Ne5+ Kf8
7.Qh8+
09:37  12.00  -0.45  1.Bh6 Qe7 3.Bxg7 Kxg7 4.Qh6+ Kf7 5.Nh4+ Rg8 6.Qh7+
28:33  13.00  -0.45  1.Bh6 Qe7 3.Bxg7 Kxg7 4.Qh6+ Kf7 5.Nh4+ Rg8 6.Qh7+
21:23  14.00  -0.48  1.Bh6 Qe7 3.Bxg7 Kxg7 4.Qh6+ Kf7 5.exf6+ Qxf6 6.Ng5+ Ke8
7.Nxe6 Qxf2+


After 14. ..Bc8-b7:


Last Move : 1... Bb7 (White to play)

02:20  11.00  2.31  4..cxb2 5.Rb1 Qa5+ 6.Kd1 Nbd7 7.Qe6+
00:00  03.00  -2.64  1.Bh6 Bxf3 3.Bxg7 Bxg2
00:00  04.00  -0.47  1.Bh6 Bxf3 3.Bxg7 Bh5 4.Bxf8 Qxf8
00:01  05.10  -1.00  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxf3 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.gxf3 cxd4 6.Qh6+
00:03  06.00  0.34  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 e5 4.fxg7 exd4+ 5.Be2 Kxg7 6.Qxc5
00:06  07.00  0.46  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxf3 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.Qh6+ Kf6 6.Qf4+ Ke7
7.Qxf3
00:13  08.00  0.30  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxf3 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.Qh6+ Kf6 6.Qf4+ Ke7
7.Qxf3 Nd7
00:29  09.00  0.41  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxf3 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.Qh6+ Kf6 6.Qf4+ Ke7
7.Qxf3 Qc6 8.d5
01:33  10.00  0.70  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxf3 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.Qh6+ Kf6 6.Qf4+ Ke7
7.Qxf3 Nc6
02:55  11.00  0.34  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Bxf3 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.Qh6+ Kf6 6.gxf3 cxd4
7.Qh4+ Kg7 8.Qxd4+ e5 9.Qe4
09:27  12.00  0.54  1.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Nd7 4.fxg7 Kxg7 5.Qh6+ Kf6 6.Qf4+ Kg7

Q5T Experimental after 14.Qc1:


00:00  05.00  1.49  1..cxd4 2.Qf4 f6 3.exf6 Bxf6 4.Nxd4 Nc6
00:01  06.00  -1.01  1..cxd4 2.Bf6 Nxf6 3.exf6 Qa4 4.fxg7 Qb4+ 5.Kf1
00:07  06.01  0.68  1..f6 2.exf6 Nxf6 3.Bh6 Qe7 4.Qg5 cxd4 5.Qxg6 Qf7
00:33  07.00  0.00  1..f6 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Rg8 6.Qh6+ Rg7
7.Qh8+ Rg8 8.Qh6+
00:37  07.13  0.37  1..f5 2.Qf4 cxd4 3.Qh4 Rf7 4.Qh7+ Kf8 5.Nxd4
00:40  08.00  -1.32  1..f5 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Ng5 Nb6 6.Qh8+ Rg8
00:49  08.01  0.00  1..f6 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Rg8 6.Qh6+ Rg7
7.Qh8+ Rg8 8.Qh6+
01:19  09.00  0.00  1..f6 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Rg8 6.Qh6+ Rg7
7.Qh8+ Rg8 8.Qh6+
02:34  10.00  -0.82  1..f6 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Kf7 6.exf6
Qxh8 7.Rxh8 Kxf6
06:49  11.00  -0.82  1..f6 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Kf7 6.exf6
16:41  12.00  -0.74  1..f6 2.Bh6 Rf7 3.Bxg7 Rxg7 4.Qh6 Kf8 5.Qh8+ Kf7
59:17  13.00  -0.96  1..f6 2.Bh6 Qe7 3.Bxg7 Kxg7 4.Qh6+ Kf7

Sorry for this lengthy post here guys. Please, cheer up, a little! Kasparov will
make a come-back, real soon, I'm positive about it, he has done it before.

Regards, Eelco




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