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Subject: Re: Testposition - Totally Paralysed

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 13:45:32 03/02/01

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On March 02, 2001 at 16:35:09, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

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

 Maybe Qh8 instead of taking the bishop on f7 could give white
 some more problems?!



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