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Subject: Re: Crafty analysis question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:43:48 03/16/01

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On March 16, 2001 at 19:15:02, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:

>On March 16, 2001 at 17:34:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 16, 2001 at 16:36:45, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
>>
>>>[D] 8/8/1pk1prp1/p6p/2PP1P1P/4P3/3K4/6R1 b - - 0 42
>>>
>>>Crafty reached this position as black vs. little goliath in a game (pondering
>>>off). After about 8 seconds thinking on my 350 MHz box, crafty played b5. This
>>>had the effect of losing the a pawn a few moves later, and the game was quickly
>>>lost after that. Crafty may be lost anyway, but b5 doesn't help.
>>>
>>>Later, I let crafty analyze the position. It liked b5 for about 4 seconds, then
>>>switched to Kc7. So my question is, why did Crafty stick with b5 for 8 seconds
>>>in the game, but realized in half that time during analysis that the move was
>>>inferior?
>>
>>
>>Don't forget "position learning".  Delete position.bin and try it again
>>to see if it takes longer to see the problem...
>>
>
>Seems to have no effect. I deleted position.bin (& position.lrn) and it still
>switches from b5 to Kc7 after about 4 sec.


In that case it is probably an artifact caused by the transposition table
having entries from earlier searches..  Not much you can do about it...
unfortunately.



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