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Subject: Re: Is there a Bug in Crafty?

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 10:21:31 01/09/04

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On January 09, 2004 at 01:52:56, Slater Wold wrote:

>On January 08, 2004 at 14:17:52, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>[D] 8/6r1/8/5p1B/5N2/4k1K1/8/8 w - - 0 137
>>
>>In this position Crafty 19.06 exe from Dann Corbit played 137.Bg6?? and lost.
>>137.Ng6 is draw.
>>I can reproduce it with Cb-native Crafty 19.06 and Crafty 19.08.
>
>Nice & interesting find!
>
>I've tested about 2 dozen engines, and only LIST, Ruffian, & Crafty fail on this
>position.
>
>Even Turing gets it right!  :|

Crafty missed 137...Kc4 only with the 5 men tablebases installed.
Ktulu also fails on the position.

New game
8/6r1/8/5p1B/5N2/4k1K1/8/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Ktulu 4.2:

137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 4   00:00:00
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 5   00:00:00
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  2kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  5kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 8   00:00:00  11kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  18kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 10   00:00:00  29kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 11   00:00:00  45kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 12   00:00:00  70kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 13   00:00:00  106kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 14   00:00:00  162kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 15   00:00:00  250kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 16   00:00:00  403kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 17   00:00:01  683kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 18   00:00:01  1110kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 19   00:00:02  1827kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 20   00:00:04  3050kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 21   00:00:07  5219kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 22   00:00:12  8870kN
137.Bg6 Rxg6+ 138.Nxg6 f4+ 139.Nxf4
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 23   00:00:23  16522kN

Who said Computers never blunder, except in case of a bug?

The strong program Ruffian would blunder horrible with
1.Bxd6?? in this drawish position:

[D] 8/3r4/3p4/1kp5/2N5/3K4/7B/8 w - - 0 1

Just losing a piece.

New game
8/3r4/3p4/1kp5/2N5/3K4/7B/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Ruffian 1.0.2:

1.Nxd6+ Rxd6+ 2.Bxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
1.Bxd6
  ±  (1.13)   Depth: 1/3   00:00:00
1.Bxd6 Rxd6+ 2.Nxd6+ Kc6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 2/4   00:00:00
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6 3.Nxd7 Kxd7
  -+  (-1.85)   Depth: 3/6   00:00:00
1.Bf4 d5 2.Nd6+ Kb4
  ³  (-0.69)   Depth: 3/6   00:00:00
1.Bf4 d5 2.Nd6+ Kc6 3.Nf5
  ³  (-0.66)   Depth: 4/8   00:00:00
1.Na3+ Kb6 2.Nc4+ Kc6 3.Bf4 d5
  ³  (-0.58)   Depth: 4/10   00:00:00
1.Na3+ Kb4 2.Nc2+ Kb3 3.Ne3 d5 4.Be5
  ³  (-0.64)   Depth: 5/12   00:00:00
1.Na3+ Kb4 2.Nc4 d5 3.Nb6 Rd8 4.Be5
  µ  (-0.74)   Depth: 6/12   00:00:00  11kN
1.Na3+ Kc6 2.Nc4 Rh7 3.Bf4 d5 4.Ne5+ Kb5 5.Kc3
  µ  (-0.71)   Depth: 7/14   00:00:00  28kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 7/14   00:00:00  33kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 8/14   00:00:00  35kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 9/14   00:00:00  40kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 10/15   00:00:00  50kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 11/19   00:00:00  106kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 12/19   00:00:00  133kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 13/19   00:00:00  190kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 14/19   00:00:00  292kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 15/20   00:00:01  540kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 16/22   00:00:02  1075kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 17/25   00:00:05  2324kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 18/25   00:00:09  4675kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 19/27   00:00:14  7557kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 20/31   00:00:27  15016kN
1.Bxd6 Kc6 2.Ne5+ Kxd6
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 21/32   00:00:43  24646kN

Michael



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