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Subject: Re: Odyssey2001-Tournament: round 11, pairings round 12, new updates: fritz7

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 03:19:39 12/15/01

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On December 14, 2001 at 18:29:41, Uri Blass wrote:

hi Uri,
first - thank you for your answer.

second: would you please only quote the passage you want to talk about and NOT
the whole text ? thank you. ok.



>>You can maybe understand how i felt when i saw THIS ugly and strange game of
>>fritz7, like fritz7 playing (with 2 joints) under drugs:

[Event "Odyssey2001-Tournament"]
[Site "k6-400, 40/120"]
[Date "2001.12.14"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Fritz7"]
[Black "Gromit 3.8.1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A28"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2001.12.14"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 Be7 5. a3 O-O 6. b4 d6 7. Qc2 Re8 8. Bb2
Bf8 9. d3 g6 10. Be2 Bg7 11. O-O Ng4 12. Nd5 Bf5 13. Nd2 Ne7 14. h3 Nh6 15. Nc3
Qd7 16. g4 Be6 17. g5 Nhf5 18. Nde4 Nh4 19. Nf6+ Bxf6 20. gxf6 Bxh3 21. fxe7
Bg2 22. f3 Qh3 23. Rfc1 Rxe7 24. Nd5 Re6 25. Kf2 c6 26. Nc7 Rf6 27. Ke1 Rc8 28.
Kd2 Nxf3+ 0-1

>>I stopped the game here. I was completely shocked.
>>why is fritz allowing black to completely invade whites king position (move
>>22.Qh3) . After 23...Rxe7 fritz7 is reduced to death.
>>How can fritz7 evaluate the position after 23...Rxe7 with (when you know my
>>critics over the years you will laugh about this running gag) 0.04 in favour of
>>white, playing Nd5 after 6'36" computation?
>> is it mad ??
>>in the same position gromit says +0.74 for black, even deep fritz says +0.69 for
>>black after a few minutes on the same machine.
>>Programs with more knowledge, e.g. Chess System Tal 2.03 would evaluate the
>>black moves with big advantage:
>>18...Nh4 with +2.19, 20...Bxh3 with +2.87, 22...Qh3 with +2.80, and would have
>>better played 23...f5 with +5.54 instead of Rxe7 from gromit.

this is the game and the passage you want to talk about. you don't like the tal
score of 5.54. Why ? Tal sees a big advantage and gives a high score.
How much is a win worth ? 0.9 pawns ? 0.8 ? 1 pawn ? 2 pawns ?
We talk about chess. what your "chess programs" do is they count the material
and say: 0.8 for black. Is this chess ? I don't think so, your "chess programs"
do not play chess. they emulate it, and they do it very weak.

Why is a won position only worth the material difference ? Can you explain to me
WHY a won position is ONLY worth the material difference in plein numbers ? and
why you believe a chess program is a good chess program when it is able to
subtract material A - material B. ????

my pocket calculator (running with solar-energy) is more precise , and cannot
play chess, but can subtract too.
Is my pocket-calculator a chess program ? can it play chess ? no-.
And so fritz can’t. not in this game. Not in this position. And when you now
find other programs , behaving as stupid, i am sure i can explain that those
programs do also not play chess, but only subtract a and b.



>+5.54?
>tal seems to be crazy.
>I do not undertand a reason that it is better than 23...Rxe7.
>The opposite Rxe7 that brings the rook into the attack seems to me a better
>move.

This is YOUR opinion. Hiarcs and CSTal e.g. see it different. The question is:
how to evaluate??
Black is a pawn in advance. This gives +1.0 for black. Now the programs subtrac
that the white pawn on e7 can be takan and come to +2 pawns. Now they see that
white can play Nd5 and can have a fork on c7.
somehow they reduce the black score to +0,70 - 0.80  for black. But what about
the king-position of the white king. What about the king attack black can launch
??

nothing !
CSTal indicates this. And you call the program crazy ??

the move is ok. Hiarcs would also play f5.
so why is it wrong when a chess program evaluates a better position with +5 ?
is there a rule, by john huston or a godlike rule that this position has to be
evaluated +0.80 ??

>Here is yace's evaluation after 23...f5(p800 64 mbytes)
>It can see only a small advantage for black and it searched for 45 minutes
>
>Fritz7 - Gromit 3.8.1
>[D]r3r1k1/ppp1P2p/3p2p1/4pp2/1PP4n/P1NPPP1q/1BQ1B1b1/R1R3K1 w - f6 0 1
>
>Analysis by Yace 0.99.56:
>
>24.Kf2 Bxf3
>  ±  (0.78)   Depth: 1   00:00:00
>24.Nb5 Rxe7
>  ±  (1.24)   Depth: 1   00:00:00
>24.Nd5 Nxf3+ 25.Bxf3 Bxf3 26.Nxc7
>  ±  (1.26)   Depth: 1   00:00:00
>24.Nd5 Nxf3+ 25.Bxf3 Bxf3 26.Nxc7
>  ±  (1.26)   Depth: 2   00:00:00
>24.Nd5 Nxf3+ 25.Bxf3 Bxf3 26.Nxc7
>  ±  (1.26)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
>24.Nd5 Nxf3+ 25.Bxf3 Bxf3 26.Nf6+ Kg7 27.Nxe8+ Kg8
>  +-  (1.66)   Depth: 4   00:00:00
>24.Nd5 Nxf3+ 25.Bxf3 Bxf3 26.Nf6+ Kf7 27.Nxe8
>  +-  (1.77)   Depth: 4   00:00:00
>24.Nd5 Qg3 25.Rf1 Bxf1+ 26.Kh1
>  ±  (1.37)   Depth: 5   00:00:00  17kN
>24.Nd5 Qg3 25.Rf1 Nxf3+ 26.Rxf3 Bxf3+ 27.Kf1
>  ²  (0.37)   Depth: 5   00:00:00  17kN
>24.Nd5 Qg3 25.Bxe5 dxe5 26.Nf6+ Kg7 27.Nxe8+ Rxe8
>  =  (0.11)   Depth: 5   00:00:00  17kN
>24.Kf2 Bxf3 25.Nb5 Qh2+ 26.Ke1 Qxe2+ 27.Qxe2 Ng2+
>  =  (0.12)   Depth: 5   00:00:00  17kN
>24.Kf2 Bxf3 25.Bf1 Qg4 26.Ke1
>  ²  (0.60)   Depth: 5   00:00:00  17kN
>24.Kf2 Bxf3 25.c5 Rxe7 26.cxd6 Rd7 27.Ke1 Rxd6
>  ²  (0.61)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  147kN
>24.Kf2 Bxf3 25.Bf1 Qh2+ 26.Ke1 Qg3+ 27.Qf2 Qxf2+ 28.Kxf2 Rxe7
>  ²  (0.58)   Depth: 7   00:00:01  307kN
>24.Kf2 Bxf3 25.Bf1 Qh2+ 26.Ke1 Qg3+ 27.Qf2 Qxf2+ 28.Kxf2 Rxe7 29.Ke1 f4
>  ²  (0.45)   Depth: 8   00:00:05  1718kN
>24.Kf2 f4 25.Ne4 Nf5 26.Ke1 Qh4+ 27.Kd2 fxe3+ 28.Kc3 Nd4 29.Qd1 Qxe7
>  =  (0.24)   Depth: 9   00:00:17  5625kN
>24.Kf2 f4 25.Ne4 Nf5 26.exf4 Qh4+ 27.Kg1 Qh1+ 28.Kf2 Qh4+ 29.Kg1 Qh1+ 30.Kf2
>Qh4+
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 10   00:00:43  14759kN
>24.Kf2 f4 25.Ne4 Nf5 26.exf4 Qh4+ 27.Kg1 Qh1+ 28.Kf2 Qh4+
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 11   00:04:08  85555kN
>24.Kf2 Bxf3 25.b5 f4 26.exf4 Nf5 27.Ke1 Nd4 28.Qb1 Qg3+ 29.Kd1 exf4 30.Kd2
>  =  (-0.18)   Depth: 12   00:19:10  339931kN
>
>(Blass, Tel-aviv 15.12.2001)

as far as i see it yace will play Kf2.

After 24...Bxf3 it wants to play b5 ??????? 25.b5 loses the game in an instant.
Your program searched for 45 minutes and move 3 of the main line produces a
loser-move ??? after 45 minutes of computation ??

uri uri. Maybe you should buy a new machine or another program.

Hiarcs says +2.17 when i input b5 and says 25...f4 (that was the sense of the
good move f5 before)
and cstal says +9.46 for f4 !

Uri - it seems you talk about computers. And not about chess. Your programs
compute 45 minutes and they see a disadvantage of -0.18.

and come with a main line that is dead !

uri - what you support is old paradigm of computerchess, where chess programs
have NO idea about chess at all.
I cannot support this.
Sorry.




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