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Subject: Re: Testposition - Totally Paralysed

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 13:35:09 03/02/01

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On March 02, 2001 at 14:39:10, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]1k3b1q/pP2p1p1/P1K1P1Pp/7P/2B5/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>  Horwitz,B 1885
>
>  This one might prove as mission impossible. Black is totally paralysed
>  from start and white is winning - but how?? Maybe more amusing for
>  humans than for silicons. One could characterize black's position
>  as slightly passive ;) but how could white make progress. Looks hard...
>
>  Test: Win it! Draw scores like 0.00 are not trusted...
>
>  Sune

My humble Gaviota (experimental version) sees the winning line giving and
advantage at ply 13 after 1.7 seconds.

+-----------------+
| . k . . . b . q |
| x o . . x . x . |
| o . K . o . o x |
| . . . . . . . o |
| . . B . . . . . |
| . . . . . . . . |
| . . . . . . . . |
| . . . . . . . . |
+-----------------+

Ply: 12
Bc4-d3  Qh8-g8  Bd3-c4  Qg8xe6  Bc4xe6
Score: 0.00 (0)  Evals: 9473   Time: 0.2s   nps: 161868  Q/all: 0.04
           nodes      cutoffs       missed     tree_exp
path       34339         8610          229         1.03
quies       1272          784           70         1.09
all        35611         9394          299         1.03
hashtable=  attempts: 34102   hits: 55.6%   perfect: 38.5%
Accum. TOTAL-->  Time: 0.44s  Nodes: 69129  nps: 157111

Ply: 13
Kc6-d5  Qh8-g8  Bc4-b5  Kb8-c7  Bb5-e8  Qg8-h8  Be8-f7  Kc7-b6
 b7-b8=Q8  Kb6xa6  Qb8-f4
Score: 0.15 (39)  Evals: 23721   Time: 0.5s   nps: 162469  Q/all: 0.05
           nodes      cutoffs       missed     tree_exp
path       77529        19390          773         1.04
quies       3868         2209           39         1.02
all        81397        21599          812         1.04
hashtable=  attempts: 76836   hits: 52.2%   perfect: 37.0%
Accum. TOTAL-->  Time: 0.94s  Nodes: 150526  nps: 159964

FAILED HIGH...

Ply: 13
Kc6-d5
Score: 0.93 (239)  Evals: 7532   Time: 0.1s   nps: 140569  Q/all: 0.09
           nodes      cutoffs       missed     tree_exp
path       16688         4571          346         1.08
quies       1586          945           26         1.03
all        18274         5516          372         1.07
hashtable=  attempts: 16632   hits: 39.7%   perfect: 24.4%
Accum. TOTAL-->  Time: 1.07s  Nodes: 168800  nps: 157610

FAILED LOW...

Ply: 13

Score: 0.93 (238)  Evals: 32777   Time: 0.7s   nps: 165908  Q/all: 0.04
           nodes      cutoffs       missed     tree_exp
path      114663        27483          791         1.03
quies       4957         2665           97         1.04
all       119620        30148          888         1.03
hashtable=  attempts: 113941   hits: 55.8%   perfect: 39.2%
Accum. TOTAL-->  Time: 1.79s  Nodes: 288420  nps: 160949

Ply: 14
Kc6-d5  Qh8-g8  Bc4-b5  Qg8-h8  Bb5-e8  Qh8-g8  Be8-f7  Qg8xf7
 e6xf7  Kb8-c7  Kd5-e5  Kc7-b8
Score: 0.59 (151)  Evals: 582554   Time: 9.2s   nps: 148486  Q/all: 0.10
           nodes      cutoffs       missed     tree_exp
path     1237269       269770        54631         1.20
quies     133698        61305         3180         1.05
all      1370967       331075        57811         1.17
hashtable=  attempts: 1232493   hits: 48.7%   perfect: 31.9%
Accum. TOTAL-->  Time: 11.03s  Nodes: 1659387  nps: 150511

Ply: 15
Kc6-d5  Qh8-g8  Bc4-b5  Qg8-h8  Bb5-e8  Qh8-g8  Be8-f7  Qg8xf7
 g6xf7  Kb8-c7  Kd5-c5   g7-g5   h5xg6ep   h6-h5  Kc5-d5  Bf8-g7
Score: 0.89 (228)  Evals: 48019   Time: 1.0s   nps: 173134  Q/all: 0.06
           nodes      cutoffs       missed     tree_exp
path      163716        37549         1564         1.04
quies       9764         5007           54         1.01
all       173480        42556         1618         1.04
hashtable=  attempts: 162287   hits: 59.8%   perfect: 41.0%
Accum. TOTAL-->  Time: 12.03s  Nodes: 1832867  nps: 152396



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