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Subject: Re: Odd Position

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:06:17 01/30/98

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On January 30, 1998 at 14:50:18, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>8/7p/1p2KPb1/p5k1/P1P5/1P6/8/8 b - - 0 1
>
>The right move looks to this human to be h5. Only a very
>long search saw this for my program and I am wondering what
>heuristic I am missing:
>
>Phase = Endgame, 60 moves in 300 secs, target = 32767 sec, Root score =
>828
> 1-    0.0      8        23      Bb1
> 1.    0.1    392        24      Bb1
> 2+    0.1    828        34      Bb1
> 2.    0.1    108        96      Bb1 Ke5
> 3+    0.1    492       162      Bc2
> 3.    0.1    108       596      Bc2 Ke5 Kg4
> 4+    0.1    592      1212      b5
> 4.    0.2    208      2692      b5 Ke5 Kg4 cxb5
> 5+    0.2    428      7680      Bf7+
> 5.    0.3    108     12337      Bf7+ Kxf7 Kg4 b4 axb4 Kf8
> 6+    0.4    328     17455      b5
> 6.    0.8    308     40822      b5 f7 bxa4 f8=Q Bf7+ Kxf7 axb3
> 7-    2.2    208    124063      b5
> 7&    2.3    192    132253      b5 f7 Bxf7+ Kxf7 b4 Kf8 Kf4 Ke7 h5
> 7.    2.4    192    136224      b5 f7 Bxf7+ Kxf7 b4 Kf8 Kf4 Ke7 h5
> 8+    3.8    528    222438      b5
> 8.    6.2    508    381529      b5 f7 Bxf7+ Kxf7 bxa4 bxa4 Kf4 Kf8 h5
>Kg8
>                                 Ke3
> 9-   18.8    408   1163781      b5
> 9&   24.9     28   1524091      b5 cxb5 Kh6 Ke7 Kh5 b4 axb4 f7 Bxf7
> 9&   28.4    108   1735916      h5 c5 h4 cxb6 Bf7+ Kxf7 Kg4 b7 Kf3 b8=R
> 9.   33.9    108   2051702      h5 c5 h4 cxb6 Bf7+ Kxf7 Kg4 b7 Kf3 b8=R
>10+   37.7    228   2281466      h5
>10&   47.2    528   2831861      h5 Ke7 h4 f7 Bxf7 b4 Bxc4 bxa5 bxa5 Kd7
>Kg4
>                                 Ke7
>10.   81.9    528   5035141      h5 Ke7 h4 f7 Bxf7 b4 Bxc4 bxa5 bxa5 Kd7
>Kg4
>                                 Ke7

I don't think you are necessarily missing a heuristic, I think it's
worse than this, I think you have some kind of horrendous bug.

My evidence is that 25 seconds into the search, you are playing 1. ...
b5, which manages to *lose*.

bruce



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