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Subject: Re: A [pretty easy] test position and my blind program

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:22:12 01/20/01

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On January 20, 2001 at 01:32:14, Scott Gasch wrote:

>Well, I think the problem with my engine may be still a branching factor or
>search tree size type of thing now that I see the speed of AMY and the
>nodecounts on one of the other engine's outputs posted here.  By comparison my
>engine needs 14M nodes and 112 seconds to find this move.
>
>Thanks to all for the advice... I will look for bugs and play with extensions to
>try to improve this.
>
>Scott
>
>Thinking until interrupted...
> 1        88    0.0         30  PV = Ke6 [Q]
> 2        75    0.0        143  PV = c3 bxc3 [Q]
> 3        75    0.0        581  PV = c3 bxc3 Rxc3 [Q]
> 4       142    0.1       1631  PV = c3 bxc3 Rxc3 Ra2 [Q]
> 5       163    0.1       4926  PV = c3 Rxd3 c2 Rd6+ Ke7 Rc6 [Q]
> 6       179    0.2      15748  PV = c3 bxc3 Rxc3 Ra2 Rc2 Rxc2 [Q]
> 7       179    0.5      44780  PV = c3 bxc3 Rxc3 e4 Rxa3 e5+ Ke6 Ke3 [Q]
> 8       104    1.2     135046   **FL** A from 104 -> -INF
> 8        72    3.0     339387  PV = Rb8 e4 fxe4+ Kxe4 Re8+ Kf3 Kf5 Rg2 Re1 Rg5+
>Ke6 [Q]
> 9        86    8.1     958574  PV = Rb8 e4 fxe4+ Kxe4 Re8+ Kf3 Re1 Kf2 Rc1 Ke3
>Rc2 [Q]
>10        99   38.2    4747523  PV = Rb8 Rg2 Rd8 Rg1 Ke6 Rd1 [TT]
>11       174   98.5   12442010   **Rb8!!** B from 174 -> +INF
>11       194  112.4   14315237  PV = Rxb2 Rxb2 c3 Rb6+ Ke7 Rb7+ Kd6 Rb6+ Kc7 Rb5
>[TT]
>12       250  185.6   24128799  PV = Rxb2 Rxb2 c3 Rb6+ Ke7 Rb7+ Kd6 Rb6+ Kc7 Rb1
>c2 Rc1 Kd8 e4 d2 [Q]
>13       325  199.3   25894041   **Rxb2!!** B from 325 -> +INF
>13       406  342.8   45945629  PV = Rxb2 Rxb2 c3 Rb6+ Ke7 Rb7+ Kd6 Rb6+ Kc7 Rb1
>c2 Rc1 Kb6 e4 d2 Rxc2 [Q]


Hi Scott

Mine takes 4M nodes to see this and doesn't get it until ply 12 after 93
seconds:

 8=    75     5    198677   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 fxe4 4. Kxe4 Rxa3 5. h3
h5 6. Rxd3 Rxd3 7. Kxd3
 9>    75     5    212691   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 fxe4 4. Kxe4 Rxa3 5. h4
h5 6. Rxd3 Rxd3 7. Kxd3 a3
 9=    92     9    384461   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 Rxa3 4. e5 Ke6 5. Ke3 Kd5
6. Rxd3 Rxd3 7. Kxd3 a3
10>    92    10    412813   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 Rxa3 4. e5 Ke6 5. Ke3 Kd5
6. Rxd3 Rxd3
SCRUBBING TT (on new guess): 12 [183]   172
10=   250    24   1135539   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 fxe4 4. Kxe4 Rxa3 5. h4
h5 6. Rxd3 Rxd3 7. Kxd3
11>   245    52   2426273   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 fxe4 4. Kxe4 Rxa3 5. h4
Rc3 6. Rxd3 Rxd3
11=   245    55   2580229   1... c3 2. bxc3 Rxc3 3. e4 fxe4 4. Kxe4 Rxa3 5. h4
Rc3 6. Rxd3 Rxd3
12>   245    93   4096845   1... Rxb2 2. Rxb2 c3 3. Rb6 Ke7 4. Rb7 Kd6 5. Rb6
Kc5 6. Rb7 c2 7. Rc7 Kd6 8. Rc4 d2

Andrew




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