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Subject: Re: Not so fast

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 19:36:29 09/16/01

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On September 16, 2001 at 17:38:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 16, 2001 at 16:30:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On September 16, 2001 at 16:15:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 16, 2001 at 00:36:22, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>Vincent emailed me and asked me to run these.  I ran them on a quad 450 Xeon.
>>>>
>>>>[D]8/p4bpk/7p/3rq3/3Npp2/PPQ3P1/3R1PKP/8 w - - 0 1
>>>>
>>>>I get gxf4 until ply 10, after which there is a switch to b4, which is a bad
>>>>move.  This fails low to -3.88 in ply 11, and gxf4 comes back with a score of
>>>>-2.48.
>>>>
>>>>Later in ply 11, f3 pops up with a score of -2.33.
>>>>
>>>>Up to here takes 89 seconds.
>>>>
>>>>f3 sticks until ply 14, at which point if fails low to -4.24, and gxf4 comes
>>>>back with a score of -3.21, resolving after about 1/2 hour.
>>>>
>>>>In ply 15, gxf4 fails low again, and the hour ended with no resolution.  It was
>>>><= -3.46.
>>>>
>>>>[D]8/p4bpk/7p/3rq3/3Npp2/PPQ2PP1/3R2KP/8 b - - 0 1
>>>>
>>>>In this one, I have exf3+, with a score of +2.35 in ply 10.  After 16 seconds,
>>>>in ply 10, it finds Bh5, failing high to +2.80.
>>>>
>>>>Ply 11 was uneventful, but in ply 12, Bh5 failed high to +4.24.
>>>>
>>>>The score creeps up slightly, and the last score I got in the hour was +4.99,
>>>>ply 15, after about 45 minutes.
>>>>
>>>>I'll run the first one again all night and see what happens.
>>>>
>>>>bruce
>>>
>>>thanks!
>>>
>>>It confirms already what i suspected. f3 is losing
>>>way harder than alternatives!
>>>
>>>I do not understand why ferret needs a ply more to get -4.24 for f3
>>>than when after f3 is getting played. Possible to shine any light onto
>>>this?
>>
>>I don't see that you can draw that conclusion at all, especially in light of
>>this:
>>
>>    ply  milliseconds score           line
>>no   17  27657860   -433  -1221224784 gxf4 Qxf4 Kh1 Rh5 f3 exf3 Nxf3 Rh3 Rf2
>>                                      Bd5 Rg2 g5 Qd3+ Qe4 Qxe4+ Bxe4 Nd2 Bxg2+
>>                                      Kxg2 Rd3 Ne4 Rxb3 a4 Rb4 Nc5 Rb2+ Kg3
>>                                      --
>>no   17  41753610   -499    666953819 gxf4 Qxf4 f3 Bh5 Kf1 e3 Re2 Rxd4 Rxe3
>>                                      Rd1+ Re1 Qxf3+ Qxf3 Bxf3 Rxd1 Bxd1 b4 Kg6
>>                                      Kf2 Bc2 Ke3 Kf5 b5
>>no   17  50832840   -494  -1178700567 f3 Bh5 g4 e3 Rd1 Bg6 Qc4 e2 Re1 Rxd4 Qxe2
>>                                      Qxe2+ Rxe2 Rd3 b4 Rxa3 h4 Bd3 Rd2 Rc3 Kh3
>>
>>Column 4 (node count) is broken and should be ignored.
>>
>>gxf4 failed low to -4.99 in ply 17, and f3 overtook it at -4.94.  So mine would
>>play f3 after 50,832 seconds.
>>
>>bruce
>
>I think the differece between f3 and gxf4 is a positional difference and we have
>no logfiles of dep blue from that game so it may be interesting to look at the
>following position
>
>[D]Rr6/5kp1/1qQb1p1p/1p1PpP2/1Pp1B3/2P4P/6P1/5K2 w - - 0 1
>
>Here is Deeper blue logfile
>
>---------------------------------------
>hash guess Rb7b8,Guessing Rb8
> 8(4) #[Ra6](156)[Ra6](156) 156^ T=0
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Kf7g8 be4d5 Kg8h7 ra6a7 Rb8c8 ra7b7 Ph6h5 rb7b5P Kh7h6 rb5b7
>Rc8c7 rb7b8
> 8(6) #[Ra6](128)########################## 128  T=3
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Kf7g8 be4d5 Kg8h7 ra6a7 Rb8c8 ra7b7 Ph6h5 rb7b5P Kh7h6 rb5b7
>Rc8c7 rb7b8
> 9(6) #[Ra6](128)###########<ch> 'rb8'
>[183 sec (main.c:1847)][cont]############### 128  T=10
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Kf7g8 be4d5 Kg8h7 ra6a7 Rb8c8 ra7b7 Ph6h5 rb7b5P Kh7h6 rb5b7
>Rc8c7 rb7b8
>10(6) #[Ra6](158)[Ra6](158) 158^ T=17
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Kf7g8 be4d5 Kg8h7 ra6a7 Rb8c8 ra7b7 Ph6h5 rb7b5P Kh7h6 rb5b7
>Rc8c7 rb7b8
>10(6) #[Ra6](158)########################## 158  T=34
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Kf7g8 be4d5 Kg8h7 ra6a7 Rb8c8 ra7b7 Ph6h5 rb7b5P Kh7h6 rb5b7
>Rc8c7 rb7b8
>11(6) #[Ra6](156)########################## 156  T=99
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Kf7g8 be4d5 Kg8h7 ra6a7 Rb8c8 ra7b7 Ph6h5 rb7b5P Kh7h6 rb5b7
>Rc8c7 rb7b8
>12(6) #[Ra6](162)[TIMEOUT] 162  T=192
>ra8a6 Qb6c6q pd5c6Q Rb8c8 be4d5 Kf7e7 ra6a5 Bd6c7 ra5b5P Ke7d6 bd5f3 Kd6e7 rb5c5
>Rc8a8 bf3d5 Ke7d6
>
>You can see that the evaluation of Deeper blue at depth 12(6) was 1.62 pawn for
>white.
>
>I am interested to know the evaluation of Ferret at depth 18 in order to compare
>with deeper blue.
>
>It may be interesting to see also the evaluation of Ferret when you increase the
>value of pieces that are not pawns to 150% of their normal value(programs may
>find quickly that black gets 2 pawns for the piece after Ra6 Qe3 so in order to
>prevent finding Ra6 Qe3 for these reasons I suggest to increase the value of
>pieces that are not pawns)
>
>I ask for Ferret's evaluation at depth 18 because other programs do not use
>singular extensions.
>
>I suspect that Ferret can find Ra6 Qe3 in both cases at depth that is smaller
>than 18 and that it can also cahnges it's mind later to Qd7+
>
>Uri

Here is Nimzo 8's eval; it also uses SE.

Nimzo 8 - W,S
Rr6/5kp1/1qQb1p1p/1p1PpP2/1Pp1B3/2P4P/6P1/5K2 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Nimzo 8:

1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.24)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh8 4.Qxb6
  ²  (0.52)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh7 4.Qxb6 Rxb6
  ²  (0.64)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  ±  (0.89)   Depth: 6/19   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh7 4.Qxb6 Rxb6 5.g4
  ±  (1.05)   Depth: 6/19   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  ²  (0.60)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  ²  (0.61)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh7 4.Qxe5
  ²  (0.60)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Ra6
  ²  (0.61)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Rd8 3.Ra7+ Kf8 4.g4 Ke8 5.c7 g6
  ±  (0.77)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Ra6
  ±  (1.02)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:00
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 h5 4.Rd7 Be7 5.g3 Ke8
  ±  (1.31)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:01
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.Rb7 Rb8 5.Rd7
  ±  (1.36)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:01  532kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.Rb7 Ra8 5.Rxb5 Ra3 6.Rd5
  ±  (1.30)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:02  532kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rd8 4.Rb7 Rc8 5.Rxb5 Ke7 6.Kf2
  +-  (1.44)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:03  2522kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rd8 4.Rb7 Rc8 5.Rxb5 Ke7 6.Ke2
  +-  (1.68)   Depth: 12/28   00:00:29  30325kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.g4 h5 5.Rb7 Ra8 6.Rd7
  +-  (1.76)   Depth: 13/29   00:01:32  96689kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.g4 h5 5.gxh5 Bc7 6.Rb7
  +-  (2.00)   Depth: 14/31   00:02:39  166527kN

(W,  16.08.2001)


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And then I editing the piece value to 150% of it's original value:


Nimzo 8 - W,S
Rr6/5kp1/1qQb1p1p/1p1PpP2/1Pp1B3/2P4P/6P1/5K2 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Nimzo 8:

1.Qd7+
  =  (-0.08)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qxb6 Rxb6 2.g4
  =  (-0.03)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  =  (0.10)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 1/11   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Rxb8+ Qxb8 3.g4
  =  (0.19)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  ²  (0.44)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh7 4.Qxb6 Rxb6
  ²  (0.64)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  ±  (0.89)   Depth: 6/19   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh8 4.Qxb6 Rxb6 5.g4
  ±  (1.08)   Depth: 6/19   00:00:00
1.Qd7+
  ²  (0.63)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Qd7+ Kg8 2.Ra7 Bf8 3.Qe6+ Kh8 4.Qxb6 Rxb6 5.g4 Bd6
  ²  (0.58)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Ra6
  ²  (0.59)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.Rb7 Rb8 5.c7
  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00
1.Ra6
  ±  (1.03)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:01
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kg8 3.Ra7 Rd8 4.g4 h5 5.Ke2
  ±  (1.04)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:01
1.Qd7+
  ±  (1.05)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:01
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kg8 3.Ra7 Rd8 4.g4 h5 5.Ke2
  ±  (1.04)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:01
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.Rb7 h5
  ±  (1.23)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:01  861kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rd8 4.Rb7 Bxb4 5.cxb4 c3
  ±  (1.29)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:02  861kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rc8 4.Rb7 Ra8 5.Rd7 Be7 6.c7
  +-  (1.45)   Depth: 11/26   00:00:04  3896kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Kf8 3.Ra7 Rd8 4.Rb7 Be7 5.Rxb5 Bxb4 6.cxb4
  +-  (1.69)   Depth: 12/28   00:00:12  13364kN
1.Ra6
  +-  (1.94)   Depth: 13/29   00:00:28  29837kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Rc8 3.Ra7+ Rc7 4.Ra5 h5 5.g4 hxg4 6.Ke2
  +-  (1.95)   Depth: 13/29   00:00:41  43514kN
1.Ra6 Qxc6 2.dxc6 Rc8 3.Ra7+ Rc7 4.Ra5 Rc8 5.Rxb5 Ke7 6.Ra5
  +-  (2.12)   Depth: 14/31   00:04:35  303184kN
1.Ra6 Qe3 2.Qd7+ Kg8 3.Qxd6 Rf8 4.Qe6+ Kh8 5.Qe7 Rg8 6.Bf3
  +-  (2.32)   Depth: 15/32   00:11:30  769135kN
1.Ra6 Qe3 2.Qd7+ Kg8 3.Qxd6 Rf8 4.Qe6+ Kh8 5.Qe7 Rg8 6.Bf3
  +-  (2.32)   Depth: 16/34   00:26:19  1792190kN
1.Ra6 Qe3 2.Qd7+ Kg8 3.Qxd6 Rf8 4.Qe6+ Kh8 5.Qe7 Rg8 6.Bf3
  +-  (2.22)   Depth: 17/35   01:22:39  5740900kN
1.Ra6
  +-  (1.77)   Depth: 18/37   03:32:49  14934641kN

(W,  16.08.2001)

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