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Subject: Re: King safety test position

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 08:18:37 03/16/02

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On March 16, 2002 at 01:21:11, Slater Wold wrote:

>On March 15, 2002 at 21:45:39, Scott Gasch wrote:
>
>>On March 15, 2002 at 19:27:32, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>              ext-> chk=17801393 cap=870361 pp=502965 1rep=1877028 mate=95160
>>>sing=16
>>^^^^^^^^
>>...
>>
>>>From my (very unstable) Crafty.  As you can see, it's using singular >extensions.
>>
>>Is that all the singular extensions it saw in the whole search?  My engine only
>>does singular in check and it saw way more...  What is your singular margin /
>>how are you checking for singular moves?
>>
>>Monsoon says:
>> 1u   -3.95  00:00:00.01  81           PV= 1. g5 Rxc2+ [Q] 2. Qxc2 [Q] Bxc2
>>                                        > [Q] 3. Kxc2 [Q] <-3.00>
>> 1u   -3.75  00:00:00.01  123          PV= 1. b3 Bxb3 [Q] <-2.00>
>> 1u   -2.44  00:00:00.02  177          PV= 1. c3 Bxd1 [Q] 2. Rxd1 [Q] <-3.00>
>> 1u   -0.92  00:00:00.04  235          PV= 1. Be4 <-1.00>
>> 1.   -0.92  00:00:00.06  278          PV= 1. Be4 <-1.00>
>> 2.   -1.11  00:00:00.12  698          PV= 1. Be4 Bc6 2. Bxc6+ [Q] Rxc6 [Q]
>>                                        > <-1.00>
>> 3.   -1.00  00:00:00.19  2767         PV= 1. Be4 d5 2. Bd3 <-1.00>
>> 4.   -1.32  00:00:00.27  7968         PV= 1. Be4 b3 2. c3 Bc6 3. Bxc6+ [Q]
>>                                        > Rxc6 [Q] 4. exd6 [Q] Rxd6 [Q] <-1.00>
>> 5+   -0.66  00:00:00.53  45898        exd6!!
>> 5.   -0.56  00:00:00.65  56871        PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 [anti]
>>                                        > 3. Qxd4 <-1.00>
>> 6.   -0.90  00:00:00.97  102128       PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 [sing]
>>                                        > 3. Qxd4 Nf6 4. Bd5 b3 <-1.00>
>> 7.   -0.44  00:00:01.89  253619       PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 [sing]
>>                                        > 3. Qxd4 Nf6 4. Re1 Kf8 5. Nd2 <-1.00>
>> 8.   -0.97  00:00:04.00  634343       PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 [sing]
>>                                        > 3. Qxd4 Nf6 4. Re1 b3 5. Na3 bxc2
>>                                        > 6. Nxc2 [Q] <-1.00>
>> 9.   -0.97  00:00:10.67  1836312      PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 [TT: Qxd4
>>                                        > Nf6 Rhe1 b3 Na3 bxc2 ...]
>>10.   -0.49  00:00:28.18  5031155      PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 3. Qxd4
>>                                        > Nf6 4. Rhe1 b3 5. c4 Kf8 6. Nc3
>>                                        > <-1.00>
>>11.   -0.36  00:01:11.54  13433262     PV= 1. exd6 Bxd4 2. d7+ Bxd7 [sing]
>>                                        > 3. Qxd4 Nf6 4. g5 b3 5. c4 Bf5 6.
>>                                        > Na3 Qa1+ 7. Kd2 Rd8 8. Rxa1 [Q]
>>                                        > Rxd4+ [Q] 9. Kc3 [Q] <-1.00>
>>? (of 38) : exd6   0x7ffffffe
>>INPUT THREAD SAW: ?
>>SEARCH SUSPENDED to read input (at 25353216 nodes)
>>MOVE NOW COMMAND --> stop searching now
>>move e5d6
>>
>>HASHING: overall efficiencies (26.86% deep + 4.98% fast = 31.84%)
>>  HITS exact  : 96        upper: 46959     lower: 1334704   unusable: 1056761
>>  STORES exact: 164       upper: 464714    lower: 5263127   null: 3067120
>>  TOTAL stores: 8795125   probes: 7659365  hits: (2056954 / 381566) 2438520
>>
>>PAWNHASH: overall efficiency 96.98% (77869010 / 80290520)
>>
>>EVALFULL: overall efficiency 12.07% (2770454 / 22952015)
>>
>>FLIPRATE: 0 / 0 (0.00%)
>>
>>TREE: nodes: 25353218 (94.18% first move betas)
>>  TYPE termin:  101098    front: 11082590   qnode: 6597756   std.pat: 8276426
>>  CUTS nullmv:  3067120   recogn: 0        beta: 2196005    1stmv: 2068145
>>         hash: 1308638    extfut: 12755848  razor: 24984     %qnode: 26.02%
>>        q.fut: 6808718    q.see: 8294863   lazyeval: 6113650
>>
>>EXTEN: total: 1576108
>>  TYPE check:   2033515   threat: 24592    pawn: 0          recap: 91972
>>      !check:   791629    1reply: 191673   mult: 17823      trans: 0
>>         sex:   8161      zug:    1
>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>132.4 seconds @ 191546.9 nps.
>
>As Jeremiah said in his post, considering the penalty for SE I could not see
>doing 30+ extensions for a 60 second eval.  Toning down the extensions has given
>me on average 1-2 ply.  And those ply come in handy sometimes.


In the search you originally posted, there were *17 million* check extensions.
Since it's doing the work to determine singularity anyway, why not let it extend
a few more singular moves?  16 just seems way too low to me.

>I *probably* have toned them down too much, but like I said, this is a work in
>progress.  ;)



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