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Subject: Re: Question regarding GS 2930 test suite position #13

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:50:48 05/23/01

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On May 23, 2001 at 18:31:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 23, 2001 at 15:48:27, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 23, 2001 at 13:46:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On May 23, 2001 at 11:55:29, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 22, 2001 at 13:07:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Rh5 seems better although I couldn't get DB Jr's score of +1.5 in any reasonable
>>>>>time (two hours or so).
>>>>>
>>>>>I guess this leads to Uri's question (again) of "does Bxg7 actually win or
>>>>>not?"
>>>>
>>>>My program liked Bxg7 in a minute or two, with a score of around +1, but it is
>>>>speculative.
>>>>
>>>>It has not been tuned for this position.  It had Bg7 Kg7 Ne5 and I don't
>>>>remember what all after that.
>>>>
>>>>I went out for a while and when I came back it had Rh5 with a fail-high.  This
>>>>morning it is at +1.24, same thing.
>>>>
>>>>I'll leave it running for a day or two and see what happens.
>>>>
>>>>bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>It seems obvious that all the programs like Rh5.  The worry is that this is
>>>a possibly bad move on a deep enough search, although I don't believe this
>>>myself (yet).
>>>
>>>Kasparov seems to think that Bg7 is best.  But when he 	says 'best' I am not
>>>sure what that means, exactly.  IE 'forced win'?  'good prospects'?  Etc.  And
>>>of course he _could_ easily be wrong, although I would tend to not think this
>>>is the normal case...
>>>
>>>Your 1.24 is getting closer to DB Jr's score than mine reached, although I
>>>didn't let it run overnight.  Think I will crank it up and let it burn for
>>>a while myself...
>>
>>Interesting also to know how much time per position does Crafty need to get 11
>>out of 13(I say 11 out of 13 and not out of 14 because it seems that the Bxg7 is
>>not correct so I do not count this position as a good test suite unless the
>>solution is Rh5).
>
>I will try to crank it up and let it run.  I could start at 1 hour per position,
>and then for the ones it misses, go to 4 or 8 to see what happens.  No idea
>how hard this will be to do as I start at 6 after 20 minutes and there is a long
>way to go to reach 11.
>
>
>
>>
>>I believe that Deep Fritz on slower hardware can get something like 7 or 8 out
>>of 13 on PIII450(20 minutes per position).
>>
>>It could solve 1-5,7,8 but I did not give it enough time to find if it is going
>>to change it's mind in all of these cases.
>>
>>It could also find the right move in 9 but changed it's mind and it seem to fail
>>to solve it because of null move problems.
>>
>>It changed it's mind after more than 20 minutes on PIII450 so I may consider it
>>as solved on pIII450(20 minutes per position)
<snipped>
>Note that the original test was for 15 minutes per position if my instructions
>were correct...

Yes but I used slow hardware that is only PIII450 and even 30 minutes per
position is slower than 15 minutes per position on your hardware.

I also remember that the 11 out of 14 for deep blue Junior was based on 20
minutes per position.

Uri



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