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Subject: Re: Tactical/Combinatorial Suite, Selected from WCSAC (cleaned up)

Author: Koundinya Veluri

Date: 17:51:12 10/18/01

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On October 18, 2001 at 12:05:20, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On October 18, 2001 at 02:06:17, Koundinya Veluri wrote:
>
>>I ran them for 1 hour maximum, 5 million nodes minimum. Results are here:
>>http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~veluri/WCSAC%20cleaned.txt
>>
>>Only one wasn't solved:
>>k1q1bbrr/1p3pp1/p7/5n1n/PP2N2p/1NP5/1BB1Q1PP/2R2R1K b - - bm Bb5; id
>>"WCSAC.0582";
>>
>>This one takes a long time even with some help moving forward and backward.
>>Plus, if you see the output for this position you'll see that the branching
>>factor _sucks_ in my program once it reaches 11 ply. I gotta do something about
>>that...
>>
>>Koundinya
>
>Thanks, I have the times to solution of Crafty, YACE and my program (on a K6-II
>400 mhz, what's your hardware?).

Hi Miguel,

Sorry forgot to mention the hardware. It's P4 1.7 GHz, 68 MB hash tables.

>I will post the comparison of all of them.
>Rebel times are just amazing (excet the mate in 11!). Unfortunately Vincent do
>not care to post DIEP's which seemed to be very good too.
>
>For some reason, Crafy does poorly in this set of positions and Deep Fritz
>had problems with one particular position. Very funny. Somehow, I think
>that nullmove can create some problems and if you do more things on the qsearch
>(checks) it will show here, but it is just a _wild_ guess. DIEP apparently
>is solving many positions in less plies than other programs and Vincent claim
>that he does several things on the qsearch. Maybe the extensions are important.

About doing checks in the qsearch, I haven't yet found a single position where
it makes a difference in the solution. It slows down the search in general
though so it may not be a good idea after all. I am currently using checks in
qsearch but I think it will help only if I plan to catch mates in the qsearch...

Koundinya



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