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Subject: Re: what's going on in crafty here?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:24:29 02/11/04

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On February 11, 2004 at 20:40:17, scott farrell wrote:

>this is from a game on ICC crafty vs chompsterx
>
>I think Robert is using his cct6 quad opteron, and chompster wins due to a
>blunder by crafty.
>
>in this position crafty plays rxh3, will a huge scores favouring black (crafty
>v19.3 analysis), and when white plays Rh2 it then changes the score to like +4
>for white, a swing of about a queen.
>
>It took crafty 2:40 (2 mins 40 secs) and 17 ply to see the fail low (on a dual
>PIII 1.26 v19.3).
>
>[d] 8/7p/8/4pp1k/8/r6P/P5R1/6K1 b - - 0 41

Strange. Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality on a P4-2.4, sees that White is won
in one second after 41...Rxh3:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/8	2.10	35952		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 Kg4 44.a4 e4
					45.a5 f4 46.a6 e3 47.Kg2 f3+ 48.Kf1
0:00	2/9	2.10	42161		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 Kg4 44.a4 e4
					45.a5 f4 46.a6 e3 47.Kg1 f3 48.Kf1
0:00	3/10	2.22	59716		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 Kg4 44.a4 e4
					45.a5 f4 46.a6 e3 47.Kg2 f3+ 48.Kf1
					Kf4 49.a7
0:00	4/11	1.81	81745		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 Kg4 44.a4 e4
					45.a5 f4 46.Kg2 e3 47.Kf1 Kf3 48.Ke1
					e2 49.a6
0:00	5/12	1.87	146503		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 Kg4 44.a4 e4
					45.a5 f4 46.Kg2 e3 47.Kf1 Kf3 48.a6
					e2+ 49.Ke1 Ke3 50.a7
0:01	6/13	4.11	670607		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 Kg4 44.a4 e4
					45.a5 f4 46.Kg2 e3 47.a6 f3+ 48.Kf1
					Kg3 49.a7 e2+ 50.Ke1 h5 51.a8=Q
0:03	7/14	4.36	1115281		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 e4 44.a4 f4
					45.a5 f3 46.Kg3 Kg5 47.a6 h5 48.a7
					h4+ 49.Kf2 Kf4 50.a8=Q e3+ 51.Kf1
					e2+ 52.Kf2
0:04	8/15	4.56	1758374		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 e4 44.a4 f4
					45.a5 f3 46.Kg3 Kg5 47.a6 h5 48.a7
					h4+ 49.Kf2 Kf4 50.a8=Q e3+ 51.Kf1
					h3 52.Qb8+ Ke4 53.Qb5
0:07	9/16	4.73	2897015		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 e4 44.a4 f4
					45.a5 Kg4 46.Kg2 e3 47.a6 f3+ 48.Kf1
					Kg3 49.a7 e2+ 50.Ke1 h5 51.a8=Q
					h4 52.Qg8+ Kh3 53.Qg1
0:12	10/17	4.93	4833289		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 e4 44.a4 f4
					45.a5 Kg4 46.Kg2 e3 47.a6 f3+ 48.Kf1
					Kg3 49.a7 e2+ 50.Ke1 h5 51.a8=Q
					h4 52.Qb8+ Kg4 53.Qe5 h3 54.Kf2
0:21	11/18	4.93	8076848		42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 e4 44.a4 f4
					45.a5 Kg4 46.Kg2 e3 47.a6 f3+ 48.Kf1
					Kg3 49.a7 e2+ 50.Ke1 h5 51.a8=Q
					h4 52.Qb8+ Kg4 53.Qe5 h3 54.Kf2
0:43	12/19	6.08	15868559	42.Rh2 Rxh2 43.Kxh2 e4 44.a4 f4
					45.a5 Kg4 46.Kg2 e3 47.a6 f3+ 48.Kf1
					Kg3 49.a7 e2+ 50.Ke1 h5 51.a8=Q
					h4 52.Qb8+ Kg4 53.Qe5 h3 54.Kf2
					e1=Q+ 55.Qxe1 h2

My first suspicion was that this might be a bug in the 6-man tablebase code or
data. But that would imply that the KPPPKP file was being used, and I don't
think it has even been built yet. :-/

jm



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