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Subject: Re: One stupid(?) null-move question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 02:52:50 08/12/98

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On August 11, 1998 at 23:13:03, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>
>I suppose you have used your latest version of crafty and it is really good
>news. It sounds that you have overcome that nasty null move problem.
>Congratulations!
>

no... my point was that any 15.x should repeat this.  The only changes in 15.18
are evaluation changes.  The search is identical to the past few versions.  No
changes for null-move, no changes in ordering or extensions, nothing.  The only
pieces of code that are different are evaluation-related...

If older versions couldn't find this, it is either (a) hashing (b) evaluation
bugs or (c) something else...  null-move does effect the search in odd ways,
but I don't see how it is a problem here as this isn't really about zug as much
as it is about sufficient depth with extensions...

15.18 will be out soon, once I am sure the evaluation is back under control and
it is playing reasonably again.  So far, so good, but I'm looking carefully...



>I have used the older version of crafty. It's version 15.17 and I went on for 15
>min up to ply 17 and crafty could *not* find Rc2. By the way this position
>is from Schwerfiguren-Opfer-Profil test from S. M. Kaminer.
>
>Here is my output from Crafty 15.17
>
>starting thread 1
>                1     0.04  -2.06   1. Bd2
>                1->   0.04  -2.06   1. Bd2
>                2     0.05  -2.28   1. Bd2 Qf5
>                2     0.05  -2.23   1. Be1+ Kg5 2. Bd2+ Kf5 3. Kg3
>                2     0.05  -2.21   1. g3+ Kg5 2. h4+ Kf5 3. Re2
>                2->   0.07  -2.21   1. g3+ Kg5 2. h4+ Kf5 3. Re2
>                3     0.08  -1.86   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ g5
>                3->   0.10  -1.86   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ g5
>                4     0.10  -1.68   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bf4
>                4->   0.13  -1.68   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bf4
>                5     0.16  -1.85   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bg5 Qh8
>                5->   0.22  -1.85   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bg5 Qh8
>                6     0.29  -1.79   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bg5 Qe6 5. Bf6+ Kh6
>                6->   0.43  -1.79   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bg5 Qe6 5. Bf6+ Kh6
>                7     0.52  -1.74   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bg5 Qe6 5. Bf6+ Kh6 6. Kg2
>                7->   0.91  -1.74   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kg7 4.
>                                    Bg5 Qe6 5. Bf6+ Kh6 6. Kg2
>                8     1.40  -1.81   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kh7 4.
>                                    Be3 Qe6 5. Bd4 Qe4 6. Bf6
>                8->   2.41  -1.81   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kh7 4.
>                                    Be3 Qe6 5. Bd4 Qe4 6. Bf6
>                9     4.86  -1.85   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kh7 4.
>                                    Rf7+ Kg8 5. Rf3 Qc2 6. Rf2 Qc5 <HT>
>                9->  14.11  -1.85   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kh7 4.
>                                    Rf7+ Kg8 5. Rf3 Qc2 6. Rf2 Qc5 <HT>
>               10    16.90  -1.81   1. g3+ Kg5 2. Rf2 Kh6 3. Bd2+ Kh7 4.
>                                    Re2 Qd8 5. Bf4 Qf6 6. Be5 Qf3 7. Re1
>                                    <HT>
>               10    21.16  -1.74   1. Rb2 Kg5 2. Rf2 h4 3. Bd2+ Kh5 4.
>                                    g4+ hxg3+ 5. Kxg3 Qc4 6. Be3 Qh4+ 7.
>                                    Kg2 g5 8. Bc5 Kg6
>               10    25.18     ++   1. Rf2!!
>               10    25.57  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Rf4+ Kg3 8. Rf3+ Kh4 9. Rf4+
>               10->  25.65  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Rf4+ Kg3 8. Rf3+ Kh4 9. Rf4+
>               11    26.00  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               11->  31.27  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               12    31.96  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               12->  43.19  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               13    44.75  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               13->   1:05  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               14     1:09  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               14->   1:55  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               15     2:03  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               15->   4:12  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qd3
>                                    4. Be1 Qd6+ 5. Kh1 Kg5 6. Bd2+ Kh4
>                                    7. Be1
>               16     4:41  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qb8+
>               16->   9:16  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qb8+
>               17    10:01  -0.66   1. Rf2 Qb8+ 2. Kh1 Qb1+ 3. Kh2 Qb8+
>              time: 15:00  cpu:200%  mat:-1  n:208390912  nps:231432
>              ext-> checks:14754735 recaps:242929 pawns:272563 1rep:4263350
>              predicted:0  nodes:208390912  evals:73548959
>              endgame tablebase-> probes done: 147415  successful: 147415
>              hashing-> trans/ref:47%  pawn:21%  used:w99% b99%
>
>White(1): Rf2
>
>So it may be time to release Crafty 15.18 so we can agree?
>
>Kind regards and thank you for posting your results.
>Bernhard



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