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Subject: Re: Simple Endgame for programs without TBs ??

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 17:28:50 11/22/00

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On November 22, 2000 at 14:06:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 22, 2000 at 12:32:47, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 2000 at 03:55:13, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>On November 22, 2000 at 00:02:34, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 21, 2000 at 20:24:31, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 21, 2000 at 20:11:10, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>What does Crafty think of the Reti study:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[D]7K/8/k1P5/7p/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>White to move draws.  I might have this slightly wrong, because I'm constructing
>>>>>>it from memory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>bruce
>>>>>
>>>>>I get a drawscore at ply 9 from Crafty in this position.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is the last line I got:
>>>>>
>>>>>22->    1:01  -0.50   1. Kg7 Kb6 2. Kf6 Kxc6 3. Kg5 h4 4.
>>>>>                      Kxh4 Kc7 5. Kh5 Kb6 6. Kh6 Ka5 7. Kg6
>>>>>                      Kb6 8. Kh5 Ka5 9. Kh6 Kb6 10. Kg6 Ka5
>>>>>                      11. Kh5 Kb6
>>>>
>>>>What interests me would be the scores prior to that ply, where Crafty things
>>>>white is going to hit a home run.
>>>>
>>>>bruce
>>
>>> 7      0.19  -0.50   1. c7 Kb7 2. c8=Q+ Kxc8 3. Kh7 Kb7
>>>                      4. Kh6 Kc6 5. Kxh5
>>> 7->    0.21  -0.50   1. c7 Kb7 2. c8=Q+ Kxc8 3. Kh7 Kb7
>>>                      4. Kh6 Kc6 5. Kxh5
>>
>>>Crafty never thinks white is winning in this position.
>>
>>It should think black is winning, because black's pawn can't be stopped, but
>>white's can.  I snipped out a lot of the other lines here, but does anyone else
>>think that the line I kept is completely ridiculous?
>>
>>Bob, what the heck is crafty doing there?
>>
>>bruce
>
>There are several possible issues here.  My PV may well be silly on the end.
>When I get a hash hit, with an EXACT score, the PV is obviously cut short at
>that point.  Later, I try to probe the hash table to add more moves to the
>end.  And on occasion, those moves might not make any sense, and might not
>even be part of the set of moves that leads to the score it gave...
>
>Here is a non-egtb output from crafty (400mhz machine, one cpu):
>
>              time surplus   0.00  time limit 30.00 (3:00)
>         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
>                1     0.00  -3.50   1. Kg8
>                1->   0.00  -3.50   1. Kg8
>                2     0.00     --   1. Kg8
>                2     0.00  -3.91   1. Kg8 h4
>                2     0.00     ++   1. c7!!
>                2     0.00   0.00   1. c7 Kb7 2. c8=Q+ Kxc8

[snip]

Bob.. how can you justify zero score here...?



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