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Subject: Re: Testposition - Tactics

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:43:17 07/11/01

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On July 11, 2001 at 12:52:30, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
> [D]r5nr/pp3kpp/2pb4/3pn1P1/8/2N1B2B/PPP2P1P/2KRR3 w - - 0 20
>
> IM Berg,Emanuel 2496 - GM Akesson,Ralf 2481
>
>
> This is a position from today's 10th round in the SWE-ch. 19 year old
> Berg is a very gifted tactician. Here he chose 20.Nxd5!, got an advantage
> and won the game vs his more experienced opponent. It was from a e5-pushed
> Caro-Kann.
>
> Test: How long before your program finds and chooses 20.Nxd5!
>
> The whole game below.
>
>
>[Event "SM"]
>[Site "SWE"]
>[Date "2001.07.11"]
>[Round "10"]
>[White "Berg, Emanuel"]
>[Black "Akesson, Ralf"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B12"]
>[WhiteElo "2496"]
>[BlackElo "2481"]
>[PlyCount "61"]
>[EventDate "2001.07.11"]
>
>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. Nge2 f6 7. Nf4 Bf7 8. Qe2
>fxe5 9. Qxe5 Nd7 10. Qe2 Qf6 11. g5 Qxd4 12. Nxe6 Bxe6 13. Qxe6+ Be7 14. Bh3
>Qe5+ 15. Be3 Qxe6 16. Bxe6 Bd6 17. O-O-O Ke7 18. Bh3 Ne5 19. Rhe1 Kf7 20. Nxd5
>cxd5 21. Rxd5 Rd8 22. Bc5 Nc4 23. Rd4 b6 24. Be6+ Kg6 25. Bxc4 bxc5 26. Re6+
>Kxg5 27. Rdxd6 Nf6 28. Rc6 Rd7 29. Rxc5+ Kh4 30. Re3 Ng4 31. Re4 1-0

Much to my utter surprise, Beowulf solved it in one minute:

Could not Load Config File beowulf.cfg.  Continuing...
Welcome to Beowulf Version 1.6 (Beta)!

Loading Opening Book book.dat ... OK
[34834 Positions]
Loading Personality File E:\pgn\winboard-engines\beowulf\personality.dat ... per
son.pawn_score was outside the allowed range of 100 to 100 (given at 115) and wa
s reset to 100
OK


Checking for Tablebase Files

r n b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R N B Q K B N R

[1]W > st 999
Default Search Time set to 999 seconds
[1]W > test
Directory of EPD Files

 Volume in drive E is New Volume
 Volume Serial Number is 5CEB-5B7A

 Directory of E:\programme\winboard\beowulf

05/07/2001  04:52p                  96 m9.epd
07/11/2001  12:05p                 107 ROUGH.EPD
               2 File(s)            203 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   4,111,949,824 bytes free

Please Choose : rough
rough.epd Loaded OK!
Output Log File ('.' for none) : .
Set Time Limit [1-3600s] : 999


Position 1 - White to play
--------------------------
ID = "CCC Sune Larsson, 7/11/2001 @12:52:30"
FEN = r5nr/pp3kpp/2pb4/3pn1P1/8/2N1B2B/PPP2P1P/2KRR3 w - -

r . . . . . n r
p p . . . k p p
. . p b . . . .
. . . p n . P .
. . . . . . . .
. . N . B . . B
P P P . . P . P
. . K R R . . .

Current Position = 0.25
Number of Possible Moves = 36

  6     28     49      71094   c3e4 d6b4 e4d2 g8e7 f2f4 b4d2 c1d2
  7     28    129     212653   c3e4 d6e7 e4d2 h7h6 f2f4 h6g5 f4e5 h8h3
  8     19    432     697693   c3e4 d6b4 e4d2 g8e7 f2f4 e5c4 h3e6 f7g6 h2h4 c4e3
 e1e3
  9     -9    998    1609341   c3e4 d6b4 e3d2 b4e7 e4c5 e5f3 g5g6 h7g6 h3e6 f7f8
 c5d7 f8e8
  9     15   1456    2298052   f2f4 e5c4 e3d2 g8e7 h3e6 f7g6 e6g4 g6f7 e1e6 a8d8
 a2a4
 10     20   4431    6863423   f2f4 e5c4 c1b1 h7h6 e3c1 h6g5 h3e6 f7g6 f4f5 g6f6
 d1d5 h8h2
 10     44   5999    9305430   c3d5 c6d5 d1d5 e5c4 d5f5 f7g6 e3d4 c4b2 c1b2 d6h2

 10     49   7090   11045055   c3d5 c6d5 d1d5 e5c4 d5f5 f7g6 e3d4 g8e7 e1e6 g6h5
 f5f7 h5g5 f7g7
 11     64  13733   21082460   c3d5 c6d5 d1d5 e5c4 d5f5 f7g6 e3d4 g8e7 e1e6 g6h5
 f5f7 h8e8 f7g7

Search Time : 999.0 Seconds
Total Nodes Searched   : 144495530  (88.6% Qui)
Total Nodes Evaluated  : 128011260
Cuts       : Delta        0  : SEE     32225368  : Mate      30694
           : Razor  5591585  : Eval    57231131
Extensions : Check  4528656  : OneRep    98609  : CMThreat   3369
           : Pawn    150633  : Recap    203073  : RevCheck 478901
Hash Stores (Size) : 1737783  (262139)
Hash Probes (Hits) : 119460830  (2327524)
EGTB Probes (Hits) : 0  (0)
Move Ordering      : 67.2%
Best Move = c3d5
--Answer: Nxd5    ** Correct **
Time To Solution = 59.99 sec
Correct So Far : 1/1


Test Completed.
Results;
Correct : 1/1
Average Time To Solution = 59.99 sec
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