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Subject: Re: A US Championship game analyzed by Deep Blue Test your program

Author: ALI MIRAFZALI

Date: 14:03:04 12/29/01

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On December 29, 2001 at 16:11:31, Mark Young wrote:

>On December 29, 2001 at 14:07:22, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>
>>There has been some speculation lately on the strenght difference between
>>Deep Blue and current top commercial programs.According to Mig from
>>www.kasparovchess.com programmers are divided on this topic  some believing
>>that Deep Bluecan crush any commercial program and some believing that top
>>programs today have enough chess knowlegde to compensate the huge
>>hardware difference.As a step in this direction many people have analyzed
>>the kasparov Deep blue matches with varying speculative results.I think 6
>>or 12 games is not enough for a scientific result .Here I present another
>>step in this direction.To my knowlegde this is one of the very few games
>>in which we have published analysis from IBM's Supercomputer Deep Blue
>>free to the general public.The game is Gulko(white ) vs Benjamin (Black)
>>My source is CHESS LIFE(a magazine published in the US)The issue number
>>is January 1997.This game is from the 1996 US championship.Please refer to
>>the above mentioned issue for the complete game score.The article was
>>written by Joel Benjamin.The following diagram is a variation from
>>Gulko vs Benjamin
>>[D]2b1k3/6p1/p1p3p1/P1n1Pp2/8/2N4N/1r1r2PP/R1KB3R w
>>In the article Benjamin claims that he thought that in the above diagram
>>black is winning but Deep Blue demonstrates otherwise .From the article:
>>29.Nf4 g5 30.Rb1! Rxb1+ 31.Kxd2 Rb2+ 32.Kc1 Rf2 33.Bh5+ Kd8 34.Rd1+ Kc7
>>35.Nd3 Nxd3+ 36.Rxd3 Rxg2 37.Rg3 and White is winning -Deep blue.Here is
>>the analysis of CM8K(My favorite program)of the above diagram
>>29.Nf4 g5 30.Rb1 Rxb1+ 31.Kxd2 Rb2+ 32.Kc1 Rf2 33.Bh5+ Kd8 34.Nfe2 Rxg2
>>35.Bf3 Rf2 .Which program analyzed better?? Please indicate the result
>>of your program.It would be interesting to know that if there is a
>>program that gets the same principal variation as Deep Blue in the above
>>diagram.Maybe even a better line?!
>
>Either the position is to simple to be a good example for Micros vs Deep Blue or
>micro's are now equal to Deep Blue. Today programs have not trouble seeing that
>White is better here and see it in less then 1 sec.
>
>New position
>2b1k3/6p1/p1p3p1/P1n1Pp2/8/2N4N/1r1r2PP/R1KB3R w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0:
>
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Kc2 g5 6.Rd6
>  +-  (1.68)   Depth: 8   00:00:00  113kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Rb1 g5 6.Rb6
>  +-  (1.74)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  159kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Kc2 g5 6.h4 Nd7 7.hxg5 Nxe5
>  +-  (1.78)   Depth: 10   00:00:01  291kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Rb1 g5 6.h4 gxh4 7.Rb6 Ne4+
>8.Kd3
>  +-  (1.72)   Depth: 11   00:00:02  663kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Rb1 g5 6.Rb6 Bd7 7.h4 gxh4 8.Kc2
>  +-  (1.56)   Depth: 12   00:00:05  1463kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Rb1 g5 6.Rb6 Bd7 7.h4 gxh4
>8.Rb8+ Ke7 9.Rb6
>  +-  (1.68)   Depth: 13   00:00:20  5265kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Ne2 Ne6 6.h4 g6 7.Rf1 Nc5 8.Nxf4
>Ne4+ 9.Kd3
>  +-  (1.62)   Depth: 14   00:00:32  8569kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Ne2 Ne6 6.h4 g6 7.Rf1 Bd7 8.Nxf4
>Nxf4 9.Rxf4
>  +-  (1.64)   Depth: 15   00:01:20  21414kN
>1.Nf4 g5 2.Rb1 Rxb1+ 3.Kxd2 Rxd1+ 4.Rxd1 gxf4 5.Ne2 Ne6 6.h4 g6 7.Rf1 c5 8.Nxf4
>Nxf4 9.Rxf4 Be6 10.g3
>  +-  (1.56)   Depth: 16   00:03:56  64101kN
>
>(Young, MyTown 29.12.2001)
My question was if the line given by Deepblue is better than current micros.
As I can see the lines are different .Of course White is winning.



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