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Subject: Re: Longer analysis with Chess Tiger 14.0 ?

Author: Tina Long

Date: 19:22:07 02/20/02

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On February 20, 2002 at 08:11:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>I'm wondering if Chess Tiger could have problems when
>being used for overnight analysis.
>
>I put up the Deep Blue - Kasparov position in ChessParter 5.1,
>started ChessTiger with 200M hashtables (the maximum) on the
>XP 1800 and let it analyse away.
>
>However, after about 1.5 hour the nodecounter overflowed,
>and the next PV that was printed out was cut short, and
>the branching factor exploded. Either it might be on to
>something, or it might be having problems with overloaded
>hashtables.
>
>Anybody else seen this kind of problem in very long analysis runs?
>
>00:00:00.0	-1,14	11	164841	Qxc6 dxc6 Kg8 Ra7 Rc8 Rb7 Ra8 Rxb5 Ra1+ Kf2 Ra2+ Kg1
>Ra1+ Kh2
>00:00:00.4	-1,58	11	193010	Qxc6 dxc6 Kg8 Ra7 Rc8 Rb7 Kf8 Rxb5 Ra8 Rd5 Ra1+ Kf2
>Ra2+ Kg1
>00:00:00.5	-1,58	12	389392	Qxc6 dxc6 Kg8 Ra7 Rc8 Rb7 Kf8 Rxb5 Ra8 Rd5 Ra1+ Kf2
>Ra2+ Kg1 Bc7
>00:00:03.2	-2,34	13	1412753	Qxc6 dxc6 Rc8 Ra7+ Kf8 Bd5 Rc7 Ra8+ Ke7 Ra5 Ke8
>00:00:09.3	-2,34	14	4552303	Qxc6 dxc6 Rc8
>00:00:18.8	-2,36	15	8193181	Qxc6 dxc6 Kg8 Bd5+ Kh7 Be6 Bc7 Ra7 Bb6 Rf7 Ra8 c7
>Ra1+ Ke2 Ra2+ Kf3 Bxc7 Rxc7
>00:02:37.0	-2,20	15	68200230	Qe3 Qd7+ Kg8 Qxd6 Rf8 Qe6+ Kh7 Qe7 Rg8 Bf3 Qxc3 Qe6
>Qxb4 d6 Qb1+ Kf2 Qc2+ Be2
>00:04:10.3	-1,30	16	110849691	Qe3
>00:04:20.5	-1,30	17	115758982	Qe3
>00:11:53.6	-1,44	17	336003972	Qe3 Qxd6 Re8 h4 Re7 Bf3 Qc1+ Kf2 Qd2+ Kg3 Qe1+ Kg4
>e4 Qc5 exf3 Re6 Rxe6 fxe6+
>00:18:17.0	-1,48	18	525918038	Qe3 Qxd6 Re8 h4 h5 Bf3 Qc1+ Kf2 Qd2+ Be2 Qf4+ Kg1
>Qe3+ Kh2 Qf4+ Kh3 Qxf5+ Kh2
>00:29:14.0	-1,48	19	860756587	Qe3 Qxd6 Re8 h4 h5 Bf3 Qc1+ Kf2 Qd2+ Be2 Qf4+ Kg1
>Qe3+ Kh2 Qf4+ Kh3 Qxf5+ Kh2
>01:07:39.2	-1,54	20	2044093935	Qe3 Qxd6 Re8 h4 h5 Bf3 Qc1+ Kf2 Qd2+ Be2 Qf4+ Kg1
>Qe3+ Kh2 Qf4+ Kh3 Qxf5+ Kh2
>02:32:08.3	-1,54	21	432997679	Qe3 Qxd6 Re8 h4 h5
>
>(nothing more for the next 10 hours or so)
>
>--
>GCP

Hi Gian-Carlo,
I am no expert, but I believe the following:
The node counter "uncount" happens with me too, no matter which engine in CP
Gui.  I don't think this matters to the actual anaysis.  The same happens with
Rebel Century after many hours.

2hr32min for the 21st ply.
I find often that when one ply cuts short the PV line, (here Tiger no longer has
"confidence" in Bf3 Qc1.... or any other extension), that the next ply will most
likely show a long PV line again, and that line will likely have some extension
other than Bf3 Qc1....  Also it will take a longer than expected time to reach
the next ply, due to the "indecision" about Bf3 Qc1....

If I saw your situation (the shortenened PV line) on my Tiger after 2hr35min I
would expect the next ply to be reached at around 12 to 15 hours (a x5 or x6
time factor), and rather than wait that long, I would probably force the moves
Qe3 Qxd6 Re8 h4 h5 and analyse to at least ply 19 to improve my assesment of the
position by Tiger.

I reassert, this is only my impressions about time taken in deep analysis.

Tina Long




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