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Subject: Re: Socrates vs Deep Thought2

Author: Mark Young

Date: 08:53:45 11/23/98

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On November 23, 1998 at 09:44:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 22, 1998 at 22:23:04, Howard Exner wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 1998 at 11:22:30, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>On November 22, 1998 at 10:52:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>>>Another good one, although I can't tell you where the thing starts, is the
>>>>game *socrates vs Deep Blue Prototype at Cape May new jersey, 1994.  The
>>>>critical point starts with both programs castling on the queenside if I
>>>>recall, and DB prototype initiating a pawn advance on that side.  If someone
>>>>has the game, or can find it, I might be able to find where the fireworks
>>>>started, or I'll ask Hsu as he probably remembers.  But this was another of
>>>>those very deep combinations..  At the point where it happened *none* of us
>>>>(including an IM and a bunch of good chess players) understood it until about
>>>>20 plies had unfolded and suddenly Mike Valvo says "oho!  look here, at the
>>>>end of this, *this* happens and this is crushing for black"...
>>>>
>>>>As I recall, this was more obvious once the punch line was found because it
>>>>was a long sequence that was pretty forced by both sides, once it was started...
>>>>
>>>>anybody have the last ACM games?
>>>
>>>
>>>[Event "24th ACM Computer Chess Championship"]
>>>[Site "Cape May, NJ USA"]
>>>[Date "1994.06.26"]
>>>[Round "4"]
>>>[White "Star Socrates"]
>>>[Black "Deep Thought II"]
>>>[Result "0-1"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nge2 Nf6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8.
>>>O-O-O h6 9. Bf4 Bd7 10. Nxc6 Bxc6 11. f3 d5 12. Qe1 Bb4 13. a3 Ba5 14. Bd2 O-O
>>>15. exd5 exd5 16. Bd3 Re8 17. Qh4 d4 18. Na2 Bxd2+ 19. Rxd2 a5 20. Bc4 b5 21.
>>>Rxd4 Qe7 22. Bf1 Qe3+ 23. Rd2 b4 24. Qd4 bxa3 25. Qxe3 axb2+ 26. Kxb2 Rxe3 27.
>>>Rd6 Rb8+ 28. Kc1 Ra3 29. Rxc6 Rxa2 30. g3 Ra1+ 31. Kd2 a4 32. Bg2 Rd8+ 33. Ke2
>>>Rxh1 34. Bxh1 Ra8 35. Rb6 Nd5 36. Rd6 Nc3+ 37. Kd3 a3 38. Kxc3 a2 39. Rd1 a1=Q+
>>>40. Rxa1 Rxa1 41. Bg2 Rg1 42. Bh3 Rh1 43. Bc8 Rxh2 44. g4 Rf2 45. Bb7 g6 46.
>>>Kd3 h5 47. gxh5 gxh5 48. Be4 h4 49. Ke3 Rg2 50. Bf5 Rg5 51. Bh3 Rg3 52. Bf1 h3
>>>53. Kf2 h2 54. Bg2 Rg7 55. f4 f5 56. Kf3 Kf7 57. Kf2 Rg4 58. Kf3 Ke7 59. Kf2
>>>Rg8 60. Kf1 Kd6 61. Kf2 0-1
>>
>>Aren't other programs of today playing the same winning moves as Deep Thought
>>here? Starting with 22. ... Qe3+ and ending with 31. ... a4(Rd8+ looks like
>>a direct transposing of moves would be considered as good if followed by the
>>a4 advance).
>>
>>Or is the point that Deep Thought ran these lines deeper, which I don't
>>doubt that it did.
>
>the point here is that deep thought had a +2 (or so) score vs *socrates for
>about 10 moves *before* *socrates saw they were losing.  At the point where
>this started, DT said +2, *socrates said "about even" and the discussion was
>on king safety.  Everyone was "assuming" that DT depended on piece/square
>tables, which it did to a point, that reflected lots of material on the board.
>But following it's PV showed that pieces were coming off right and left, but
>the last part of the PV wasn't visible due to the hardware search on the end,
>and (I suppose) some hash table stuff making recovering the PV difficult (I saw
>this in my mtd(f) experiments for example).  But each move, * socrates said
>"even" and deep thought said +2, until about 10 moves later when *socrates
>started saying "not to even", "significantly worse than even" and finally
>-2 and the game was busted wide open...
>
>It is certainly possible that the programs of today might play the same
>moves.  But would they see they were winning?

The program's I tried all say they are winning at move 22 black. They showed
around +1 or better in a very short time. The only program that would not play
22.. Qe3+ was Junior 5. It perfered b4 but still showed +1.


Hardly.  IE several programs
>would play the c5 in the dt/CB game... but have no idea at all that they are
>winning the game...  and varying anywhere along the way might miss the "win"
>totally...
>
>I've asked Hsu if he remembers exactly where this started. No answer yet, but
>he had previously said he'd be "doing something" for a few days, which might
>involve a trip home over the Thanksgiving holidays or something...  once we
>get info on where this started, we can begin to analyze to see what it would
>take to see what they saw...
>
>
>
>>
>>I still think that the best demonstration of the project's strength
>>are games 2-5 of the second match with Kasparov. I'm still guessing
>>that these games really wore Kasparov down. These were great games
>>and games 3, 4 and 5 showed how extremely difficult it was
>>for the best chess player on the planet to convert his advantages in these games
>>to wins.



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