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Subject: Re: CM9: something wrong with the GUI?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 11:37:04 09/21/02

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On September 21, 2002 at 14:20:52, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 21, 2002 at 14:08:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>Something must be wrong with the CM9-GUI (v1.0.1). Some days ago I posted a
>>position with the following comments:
>>
>>Is the new Chessmaster 9000 (TheKing 3.23) running better under Fritz7-GUI? I am
>>somewhat puzzled but this may be true. When testing the position
>>
>>[D]8/8/K6p/6p1/8/8/k5PP/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>I got different and partly worse results under CM9-GUI whereas under Fritz7-GUI
>>using Wb2Uci.eng and Wb2Uci.exe the test can be repeated with still the same
>>solution time and evaluation.
>>
>>In the meantime I have found a much better example where CM9 finds the winning
>>move 1.Kg2 only after more than 9 minutes on (P4 1800/32 MB hash). When however
>>using TheKing 3.23 under Fritz7-GUi with Odd Gunnar Malin's adapter Wb2Uci.exe,
>>the program finds the solution at once showing mate announcement.
>>
>>The King 3.23 - Utzinger,K
>>[D]8/4k3/3p4/3P4/2P5/8/8/5K2 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Analysis by The King 3.23:
>>
>>
>>(Utzinger, MyTown 21.09.2002)
>>
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>0:11	20/24	1.68	2957928		1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Kc3 Kc7 6.Kb4 Kb6 7.Ka3 Ka7
>>					8.Kb2 Kb6 9.Kc2 Kc7 10.Kc3 Kc8
>>					11.Kb4 Kb8 12.Kb5 Kb7
>>0:21	21/25	1.55	5708849		1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Ke4 Ke7 6.Kf3 Kf7 7.Ke2 Ke7
>>					8.Kd2 Kd7 9.Kd3 Kd8 10.Kc2 Kc7
>>					11.Kc3 Kc8 12.Kb4 Kb8 13.Kb5 Kc7
>>0:39	22/26	1.71	10431955	1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Ke4 Ke7 6.Kf3 Kf7 7.Kg3 Kg7
>>					8.Kg2 Kg8 9.Kf1 Kf7 10.Ke2 Ke7
>>					11.Ke3 Ke8 12.Kf4 Kf8 13.Kf5 Kf7
>>					14.Ke4
>>1:07	23/27	1.59	18273652	1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Ke4 Ke7 6.Kf5 Kf7 7.Kf4 Kf6
>>					8.Kf3 Kf7 9.Ke2 Ke7 10.Kd2 Kd7
>>					11.Kc3 Kc7 12.Kb3 Kb7 13.Ka4 Ka8
>>					14.Kb4 Kb7
>>1:52	24/28	1.63	30856826	1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Ke4 Ke7 6.Kf3 Kf7 7.Kg4 Kg6
>>					8.Kg3 Kg7 9.Kg2 Kg8 10.Kf1 Kf7
>>					11.Ke2 Ke7 12.Kd2 Kd8 13.Kc3 Kc7
>>					14.Kc2 Kc8 15.Kd3
>>3:11	25/29	1.62	52847121	1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Kc3 Kc7 6.Kb4 Kb6 7.Ka3 Ka7
>>					8.Kb2 Kb6 9.Kc2 Kc7 10.Kb1 Kb7
>>					11.Kc1 Kc7 12.Kd2 Kd7 13.Kd3 Kd8
>>					14.Kd4 Kd7 15.Ke4
>>5:13	26/30	1.62	86825953	1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Kc3 Kc7 6.Kb4 Kb6 7.Ka3 Ka7
>>					8.Kb2 Kb6 9.Kc2 Kc7 10.Kb1 Kb7
>>					11.Kc1 Kc7 12.Kd2 Kd7 13.Kd3 Kd8
>>					14.Kd4 Kd7 15.Ke4 Ke7
>>8:36	27/31	1.50	143951819	1.Kf2 Kf8 2.Ke3 Ke7 3.Kd3 Kd7 4.Kd4
>>					Kd8 5.Kc3 Kc7 6.Kb4 Kb6 7.Ka3 Ka7
>>					8.Kb2 Kb6 9.Kc2 Kc7 10.Kc1 Kc8
>>					11.Kd1 Kd7 12.Ke2 Ke7 13.Ke3 Ke8
>>					14.Kf3 Kf7 15.Kg4 Kg8 16.Kf5
>>9:47	27/31	1.57	163659003	1.Kg2 Kf8 2.Kf2 Ke7 3.Kg3 Kf7 4.Kf3
>>					Ke7 5.Kg4 Kf8 6.Kf4 Kg8 7.Ke3 Kf7
>>					8.Kd3 Kf6 9.Kc3 Ke7 10.Kb4 Kd7
>>					11.Kb5 Kc7 12.Ka5 Kb7 13.Kb4 Kb6
>>					14.Kc3 Kc7 15.Kd3 Kd7 16.Ke4
>
>Are you certain that endgame databases were not used in the Fritz GUI in the
>second position? That is the only way that The King could "find the solution at
>once announcing mate".
>
>Otherwise, there is no reason to believe that The King would perform
>significantly better in the Fritz GUI than in the CM GUI, with the possible
>exception that the CM GUI might take a few more % (no more than 2 or 3 at most)
>of the CPU, depending on what windows you have open.
>
>I don't have Fritz, so I cannot make a comparison. However, if YOU have CM8000
>as well as CM9000, then go ahead and try The King v3.23 inside the CM8000 GUI
>and see if the results are better than in the CM9000 GUI. I would bet that they
>will not be.
>
>jm

The endgame databases were of course used in both cases (CM9-GUI and Frit7-GUI)
but since CM9 cannot access the Nalimov tablebases under Fritz7-GUI I am indeed
wondering about such differences.
Kurt



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