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Subject: Re: NOLOT test positions.

Author: Matthew White

Date: 16:25:34 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 18:46:42, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>Below is some analysis of a few Nolot positions with todays top engines
>on a rather slow PIV-1500 MHz (this means that solution times can be
>divided 2 or 3 times).
>
>Although not all positions were solved and the positions were solved by
>different engines,it's surely a big step in computer chess that they
>started to solve these positions.
>Before 2-3 years, the previous generation of chess-engines wasn't able to
>solve more than one or two positions.
>
>A very good place for find more about Nolot suite is:
>http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/nolot/nolot.htm
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>NOLOT 1  -  Kasparov-Karpov, 20th game 1990
>
>Kasparov played Nxh6!!
>-Gambit Tiger 2.0 finds this in 49 seconds and gives
>a positive score after 24 minutes. If i used a PIV-3000 MHz then it
>would see a win after 8-10 min.
>-Deep Thought-2 could not find the move in one hour time.
>
>[D]r3qb1k/1b4p1/p2pr2p/3n4/Pnp1N1N1/6RP/1B3PP1/1B1QR1K1 w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Gambit Tiger 2.0:
>
>1.Qd1-d4 Nd5-f4 2.Rg3-e3 d6-d5 3.Ne4-f6 Re6xe3 4.f2xe3
>  ²  (0.36)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  114kN
>1.Qd1-d4 c4-c3 2.Rg3xc3 Nd5xc3 3.Bb2xc3 d6-d5 4.Bc3xb4 d5xe4 5.Bb4-c3
>  =  (0.20)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  118kN
>1.Qd1-d4 c4-c3 2.Rg3xc3 Nd5xc3 3.Bb2xc3 d6-d5 4.Bc3xb4 d5xe4 5.Bb4-c3 Re6-d6
>  =  (-0.06)   Depth: 8   00:00:00  236kN
>1.Qd1-d4 c4-c3 2.Rg3xc3
>  =  (-0.06)   Depth: 9   00:00:02  538kN
>1.Qd1-d4 c4-c3 2.Bb2xc3 Nd5xc3 3.Qd4xb4 Nc3xe4 4.Qb4xb7 Ra8-b8 5.Qb7xb8 Qe8xb8
>6.Bb1xe4
>  µ  (-0.86)   Depth: 10   00:00:04  1273kN
>1.Qd1-d4 c4-c3
>  µ  (-0.86)   Depth: 11   00:00:16  4689kN
>1.Qd1-d4 c4-c3 2.Bb2xc3 Nd5xc3 3.Qd4xb4 Nc3xe4 4.Qb4xb7 Ra8-b8 5.Qb7xb8 Qe8xb8
>6.Bb1xe4 d6-d5 7.Re1-b1
>  µ  (-1.20)   Depth: 12   00:00:21  6126kN
>1.Ng4xh6 c4-c3 2.Nh6-f5 c3xb2 3.Qd1-g4 Qe8-f7 4.Re1-e2 Bf8-e7 5.Nf5xe7 Qf7xe7
>6.Re2xb2 Ra8-e8 7.Ne4-g5
>  ³  (-0.66)   Depth: 12   00:00:49  14924kN
>1.Ng4xh6 c4-c3 2.Nh6-f5 c3xb2 3.Qd1-g4 Ra8-c8 4.Nf5xg7 Re6-g6 5.Ng7xe8 Rg6xg4
>6.Rg3xg4 Rc8xe8 7.Rg4-g6
>  µ  (-0.74)   Depth: 13   00:02:11  39698kN
>1.Ng4-e3 Re6xe4 2.Bb1xe4 Qe8xe4 3.Ne3xd5 Qe4xd5 4.Qd1-c1 Qd5-f5 5.Qc1xh6+ Qf5-h7
>6.Qh6-e6 Nb4-d3 7.Re1-e2 Nd3xb2 8.Re2xb2
>  ³  (-0.58)   Depth: 13   00:03:06  55610kN
>1.Ng4-e3 Re6xe4 2.Bb1xe4 Qe8xe4 3.Ne3xd5 Qe4xd5 4.Qd1-c1 Qd5-f5 5.Qc1xh6+ Qf5-h7
>6.Qh6-g5 Nb4-d3 7.Re1-e2 Nd3xb2 8.Re2xb2
>  ³  (-0.70)   Depth: 14   00:04:08  73542kN
>1.Ng4xh6 c4-c3 2.Nh6-f5 c3xb2 3.Qd1-g4 Ra8-c8 4.Qg4-h4+ Kh8-g8 5.Kg1-h2 Rc8-c4
>6.Nf5-h6+ Re6xh6 7.Qh4xh6 Qe8-f7 8.Rg3-g4
>  ³  (-0.48)   Depth: 14   00:06:38  121399kN
>1.Ng4xh6 c4-c3 2.Nh6-f5 c3xb2 3.Qd1-g4 Ra8-c8 4.Qg4-h4+ Kh8-g8 5.Kg1-h2 Rc8-c4
>6.Nf5-h6+ Re6xh6 7.Qh4xh6 Qe8-f7 8.Rg3-g4
>  ³  (-0.48)   Depth: 14   00:08:21  152161kN
>1.Ng4xh6 c4-c3 2.Nh6-f5 c3xb2 3.Qd1-g4 g7-g6 4.Kg1-h2 Qe8-d7 5.Nf5-d4 Bb7-c8
>6.Nd4xe6 Qd7xe6 7.Qg4-g5 Qe6-f7 8.Re1-d1
>  ²  (0.36)   Depth: 15   00:24:21  462835kN
>

Nimzo 8 sees the correct move even faster... (still waiting for it to see a win,
though)

New game
r3qb1k/1b4p1/p2pr2p/3n4/Pnp1N1N1/6RP/1B3PP1/1B1QR1K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Nimzo 8:

1.Qc1
  ³  (-0.35)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qc1 Nd3 2.Bxd3
  µ  (-0.79)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qc1 Nd3 2.Bxd3
  µ  (-0.79)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qc1 Nd3 2.Bxd3
  µ  (-0.79)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Bd4 c3 2.Re2
  ³  (-0.66)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Bd4 c3 2.Re2
  ³  (-0.66)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd2 h5 2.Ne3
  ³  (-0.65)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd4
  ³  (-0.64)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd4 Rc8 2.a5
  ³  (-0.51)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qd4 Rc8 2.a5
  ³  (-0.51)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qe2
  ³  (-0.48)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qe2 Nb6 2.Qd2
  ³  (-0.49)   Depth: 3/14   00:00:00
1.Qe2 Rc8 2.Qd2 h5 3.Ne3
  µ  (-0.91)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd2
  µ  (-0.90)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd2 c3 2.Bxc3 Nxc3 3.Qxc3
  ³  (-0.56)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd4
  ³  (-0.55)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd4 Rc8 2.Qa7 Bc6 3.a5
  ³  (-0.41)   Depth: 5/17   00:00:00
1.Qd4 c3 2.Bxc3 Rxe4
  ³  (-0.69)   Depth: 6/19   00:00:00  330kN
1.Qd4 Rc8 2.a5 Nc2 3.Bxc2 Rxe4
  µ  (-0.79)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:01  330kN
1.Qd4 c3 2.Bxc3 Nxc3 3.Qxb4 Nxe4 4.Qxb7 Nxg3 5.Rxe6 Ra7
  µ  (-0.78)   Depth: 8/22   00:00:03  2393kN
1.Qd4
  µ  (-1.23)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:06  6468kN
1.Qd4
  -+  (-1.83)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:07  7577kN
1.Qd4 c3 2.Rxc3 Nxc3 3.Bxc3 a5 4.Bxb4 axb4 5.Qxb4 Bxe4 6.Rxe4
  -+  (-1.97)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:08  8793kN
1.Nxh6
  -+  (-1.96)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:12  12485kN
1.Nxh6
  µ  (-1.36)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:16  17281kN
1.Nxh6 c3 2.Re2 Rxh6 3.Nxc3 Qh5 4.Qd2 Nf6 5.Rg5 Qh4
  µ  (-1.32)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:17  18504kN
1.Ne3
  µ  (-1.31)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:26  29617kN
1.Nxh6 c3 2.Re2 Rxh6 3.Nxc3 Qh5 4.Qd2 Nf6 5.Rg5 Qh4
  µ  (-1.32)   Depth: 9/23   00:00:26  29617kN
1.Nxh6 c3 2.Re2 Rxh6 3.Nxc3 Qh5 4.Nxd5 Nxd5 5.Qd2 Nf6 6.Rb3
  -+  (-1.41)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:36  41774kN

(White, Cupertino 19.06.2003)




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