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Subject: Re: Nevermind

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:28:49 03/02/01

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On March 02, 2001 at 15:59:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 02, 2001 at 09:56:48, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On March 02, 2001 at 08:51:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On March 02, 2001 at 07:21:29, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 02, 2001 at 02:14:20, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 02, 2001 at 00:20:20, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On March 01, 2001 at 22:31:24, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You should look below. Uri has shed some doubt on the draw.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                                     Albert
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It's a draw, nevermind.
>>>>>
>>>>>It was not a draw at least in the game between chessmaster8000 and itself
>>>>>see http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?156697
>>>>>
>>>>>I did not see a forced line that lead to a draw and the position should be
>>>>>analyzed to prove if it is a draw or not a draw.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>DIEP says it's a draw and i go for DIEP instead of a forward pruning
>>>>prog called The King, which probably played on a level similar to 5 0.
>>>>Did it play Qe3 at the first move anyway?
>>>>
>>>>Also Seirawan shows in june 1997 ICCA journal that it's a draw, besides
>>>>that i did some analysis myself in 1997 and then also concluded it
>>>>was a draw.
>>>>
>>>>So my friend, where your analysis usually are there before anyone
>>>>has said a word, here you argue lotta GMs and an objective chess prog
>>>>without anything, how comes?
>>>
>>>
>>>Sorry, but I don't believe you can find a forced draw here.  There are way too
>>>many very deep but quiet moves that can be played.  Including the option by
>>>white of simply giving up the bishop to get the passed pawn moving.  A program
>>>might think that white is losing there.  It takes one deep search to figure this
>>>out.
>>>
>>>Crafty gets a draw score at depth=16 for Qe3.  But it then loses it at depth=17
>>>when it realizes that one side can do better.  0.00 doesn't impress me at all
>>>here without the full 60+ ply variation for the deepest forced draw.
>>
>>Saying 60 plies again and again does not impress me without seeing a 60 ply
>>line.
>
>I believe the 60 ply analysis is posted on Ed's web site.  I have not looked
>at it in quite a while, but it was pretty comprehensively covered there the last
>time I looked at it.  I didn't make up the 60 ply number...

I cannot find the 60 plies at Ed's site.
The link that Ed posted with the quiet move Qc1 gives only a line with 36 plies.

Uri
>
>
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>>I also did not see a forced draw in the line Qe3 Qd6 Re8 Qd7 Re7 Qc6 and in this
>>line white gives the bishop.
>>
>>I do not know if the line leads to a draw and I know that I did not read an
>>analysis of this line by the GM's at that time probably because the GM's did not
>>believe that wasting tempos can be a good idea(I also did not believe in it)
>>
>>The only thing that can be proved is that programs cannot see that white can win
>>material after Qe3 and I believe that this is the reason that the score is only
>>0.xx.
>
>Roman was one of the first GM players that suggested that line.  But after we
>went over it for a _long_ while everyone became convinced that white could not
>win that way either...  but it is very hard to prove this and I don't think a
>program has a chance in hell of following that analysis from the point where it
>has to find Qe3 with a draw score...
>
>
>
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>>I do not believe that Deeper blue evaluated these positions as +2.xx and I
>>believe that other programs that can see the 0.xx evaluation and the line Qe3
>>Qd6 Re8 Qd7 Re7 Qc6 simply can see deeper than deeper blue.
>>
>>Uri
>
>The analysis for DB is readily available.  I have the log files if you can't
>find them anywhere.  I don't remember what its analysis actually was, but we
>do have it...

I also have the logfiles and it did not expect Qe3 so I cannot know it's
evaluation for lines after Qe3.

Uri



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