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Subject: Re: Symbolic: mini-progress report 2004.03.25

Author: Duncan Roberts

Date: 10:23:26 03/25/04

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Please keep up the reports. Any estimate when it should get to the 1800 elo
level at 5 nodes/sec ?

Duncan

On March 25, 2004 at 00:06:38, Steven Edwards wrote:

>Symbolic: mini-progress report 2004.03.25
>
>This is a mini progress report because there has been mini progress on Symbolic
>recently.  Some items:
>
>1. Symbolic is now a registered player at ICC and may also appear at FICS.
>However, I still need to write an interface and this will take a few weeks at
>the least.  And it will be months until it can play much better than randomly.
>
>2. The ChessLisp MateIn2 recognizer turned out to work not quite as well as I
>hoped as it also recognized stalemating moves in addition to mate in two moves.
>Chalk up another point for the benefits of regression testing; Symbolic is now
>on a daily diet of thousands of EPD test positions.
>
>3. The initial work on pattern instance generation has started.  A long way to
>go on this one.
>
>4. The narrative output has been improved slightly and also includes better
>position captions, PV display, and information on book move selection.  A sample
>is appended below.
>
>The plan is to continue with the simple pattern instance work with the
>intermediate goal of getting a reasonable non-search tactical exchange analysis
>(both evaluation and a confidence factor).
>
>--------
>
>Greetings.  This is Symbolic release 2004.03.24.  I've started the selection
>process at 2004.03.25 00:05:15.
>
>I created the search tree with it's root node and candidate set.  There are
>thirty-two candidate moves available: (Ba3 Bb4 Bc5 Bd6 Bd7 Be7 Kd7 Ke7 Na6 Nbd7
>Nc6 Ne4 Nfd7 Ng4 Ng8 Nh5 Qd6 Qd7 Qe7 Rg8 a5 a6 b5 b6 c5 c6 dxc4 e5 g5 g6 h5
>h6).
>
>The root position (The fourth move, Black to play):
>
>[D] rnbqkb1r/ppp2ppp/4pn2/3p4/2PP4/2N2N2/PP2PPPP/R1BQKB1R b KQkq - 1 4
>
>I've selected the opening book move 4... c6.  The resulting position occurs
>five hundred ninety-three times in my opening library.  The scoring rate for
>this move is forty-six percent.
>
>The result position (The fifth move, White to play):
>
>[D] rnbqkb1r/pp3ppp/2p1pn2/3p4/2PP4/2N2N2/PP2PPPP/R1BQKB1R w KQkq - 0 5
>
>I've selected the move 4... c6.  No expectation is available.  The predicted
>variation is: (4... c6).  A total of 0.24 processor seconds were used for the
>selection.  The search tree has one interior node, thirty-two leaf nodes, and
>thirty-three total nodes.  My selection rate is one hundred thirty-seven nodes
>per second, and my average node time is seven milliseconds.  I've ended the
>selection process at 2004.03.25 00:05:15.



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