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Subject: Re: Sample of Junior5 tactical strength

Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt

Date: 13:59:28 09/17/98

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On September 17, 1998 at 09:35:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

Hi Bob,

thanks for answering.

Looks like your Crafty parallel processing job is doing very nice.
Probably was some work to make it run smoothly and become that fast... ?

Kind regards
from Dirk


>On September 17, 1998 at 06:12:56, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote:
>
>>Here's one of the test positions where I was surprised about Junior5's tactical
>>strength.
>>
>>Fritz5 blundered this position standing well but accepting an exchange sacrifice
>>leading to a black mate attack. And Fritz normally does *very* well in finding
>>mate threats. Other programs like Mchess 7.1 and Rebel9 also have problems with
>>this positions, as is mentioned below. I guess this could count for most
>>programs - with the possible exception of de Konings programs guessed again,
>>perhaps also some Kittinger prg - , so please test and show me I was wrong...
>>;-)
>>
>>Junior5 had the best time of soving this problem by far from the four programs I
>>tested so far.
>>
>>Fritz5 - Golubev,M [E98]
>>Sparkassen open rapid bad tactical move
>>[DF]
>>
>>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1
>>c5 10.dxc6 bxc6 11.b4 d5 12.Bg5 d4 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Na4 Bg7 15.Nc5 h5 16.f4 exf4
>>17.Ned3 h4 18.Rxf4 a5 19.b5 cxb5 20.cxb5 a4 21.Rb1 Bh6 22.Rf1 Be3+ 23.Kh1 f5
>>24.Bf3 fxe4 25.Bxe4 Nf5 26.Bxa8?? [This is the Fritz5 blunder losing the game.
>>Mchess 7.1 sees problems in ply 8 after about 5' and begins dropping from +5.02
>>down to +2.10, considering g4 as alternative and finally switching to ot after
>>about 15'. Rebel9 smells "something" after 1'17, dropping from +6.23 to 4.09 in
>>ply 9, but needs ply 11 and about 20' to evaluate even less with +0.63, still
>>not finding another move within 30'.} [But Junior5 sees the mess already after
>>1'51 on 200MMX-32Mb Hash and switches to 26.g4 with a white winning position]
>>26...Ng3+ 27.hxg3 hxg3 28.Rxf8+ Qxf8 29.Bd5+ Kh8 30.Qh5+ 0-1
>>
>>Kind regards
>>from Dirk
>>
>>
>>P.S. I was not able to continue my Junior5 tournament testgames for some days
>>for a - perhaps from your view - funny reason:
>>My parents in law visit us for some days and the second computer, being used for
>>non-chess purposes (my two sons playing and one of them beginning to program)
>>during the day, is in the room where they sleep.
>>Of course their healthy sleep, undisturbed by computer cooler sounds, is *much*
>>more important to me than any game of chess ever will be!   :-)
>>
>>So I ask for your understanding and will continue the tournament with the first
>>game against Fritz5 next night probably.
>
>
>Here's what I get on my 4 processor P6/200 machine:
>
>Crafty v15.20 (4 cpus)
>
>              depth   time  score   variation (1)
>                1     0.01   5.88   26. Bxa8
>                1->   0.02   5.88   26. Bxa8
>                2     0.03   5.50   26. Bxa8 a3
>                2->   0.05   5.50   26. Bxa8 a3
>                3     0.05     ++   26. Bxa8!!
>                3     0.06   6.57   26. Bxa8 Qf6 27. Qxa4
>                3->   0.07   6.57   26. Bxa8 Qf6 27. Qxa4
>                4     0.12   6.43   26. Bxa8 Qd6 27. Qxa4 Qb6
>                4->   0.13   6.43   26. Bxa8 Qd6 27. Qxa4 Qb6
>                5     0.22   6.43   26. Bxa8 a3 27. Qb3+ Rf7 28. Qxa3 Qb6
>                5->   0.26   6.43   26. Bxa8 a3 27. Qb3+ Rf7 28. Qxa3 Qb6
>                6     0.67     --   26. Bxa8
>                6     0.75   5.72   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 Rxf1+ 28. Qxf1
>                                    hxg3 29. Nf4 Bf5 30. Qc4+ Kh8 31. Rb4
>                                    Qxa8 32. Rxa4
>                6->   1.08   5.72   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 Rxf1+ 28. Qxf1
>                                    hxg3 29. Nf4 Bf5 30. Qc4+ Kh8 31. Rb4
>                                    Qxa8 32. Rxa4
>                7     1.65   5.59   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 hxg3 28. Rxf8+
>                                    Qxf8 29. Bd5+ Kh7 30. Bf3 Qh6+ 31.
>                                    Bh5 Bf5 32. Nxa4 Bxd3 33. Qxd3 Qxh5
>                7->   5.03   5.59   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 hxg3 28. Rxf8+
>                                    Qxf8 29. Bd5+ Kh7 30. Bf3 Qh6+ 31.
>                                    Bh5 Bf5 32. Nxa4 Bxd3 33. Qxd3 Qxh5
>                8     7.47   5.66   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 hxg3 28. Rxf8+
>                                    Qxf8 29. Bd5+ Kh8 30. Bf3 Qh6+ 31.
>                                    Bh5 Qg5 32. Bg4 Bxg4 33. Qxa4
>                8->  13.10   5.66   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 hxg3 28. Rxf8+
>                                    Qxf8 29. Bd5+ Kh8 30. Bf3 Qh6+ 31.
>                                    Bh5 Qg5 32. Bg4 Bxg4 33. Qxa4
>                9    16.03     --   26. Bxa8
>                9    24.29   2.05   26. Bxa8 Ng3+ 27. hxg3 hxg3 28. Rxf8+
>                                    Qxf8 29. Bd5+ Kh8 30. Bf3 Qh6+ 31.
>                                    Bh5 Qg5 32. Nf4 Qxf4 33. Bg4 Bxg4 34.
>                                    Qxa4
>                9    32.44   2.29   26. Ne5 Ra7 27. Nxg6 Rf6 28. Ne5 Qd6
>                                    29. b6 Rg7 30. Ncd3
>                9    37.19     ++   26. b6!!
>                9    45.28   3.25   26. b6 Rb8 27. b7 Bd7 28. Na6 Qa5 29.
>                                    Nxb8 Rxb8 30. Rb2 Qc3
>                9->   1:12   3.25   26. b6 Rb8 27. b7 Bd7 28. Na6 Qa5 29.
>                                    Nxb8 Rxb8 30. Rb2 Qc3
>               10     1:47     --   26. b6
>               10     2:09   2.54   26. b6 Rf7 27. Rf3 Rb8 28. b7 Ng3+
>                                    29. hxg3 Bg4 30. Qxa4 hxg3 31. Rxg3
>                                    Qh4+ 32. Rh3 Bxh3 33. gxh3 Qxh3
>               10     2:26     ++   26. g4!!
>               10     2:42   3.44   26. g4 hxg3 27. Bxa8 gxh2 28. Rf3 Qd6
>                                    29. Qc2 Be6 30. Nxe6 Rxa8
>
>Bob



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