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Subject: Re: latest Arasan test suite

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 18:26:15 07/10/04

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On July 10, 2004 at 18:24:26, Jon Dart wrote:

>I have recently modified Arasan so that it can display 2nd and 3rd-best
>moves for each test position. Using this I have gone through my
>previously released test suite and some other tests I have collected
>recently (mostly from Arasan games), and weeded out positions that
>don't have unique good moves. I also removed some that were too easy.
>The latest version is at http://www.arasanchess.org/arasan4.epd.
>Any comments or corrections welcome. Last I ran this, Arasan was getting
>about 95 out of 115 correct at 60 seconds/move.
>
>The last test is interesting and wasn't solved at the 60 second mark:
>
>[D] 2kr3r/Rbpnq3/1p1pp3/2P3p1/3P4/2P1P1p1/Q2N1PP1/4KB2 w - -
>
>best move Rxb7. Phalanx played this in a test game (Arasan is getting a + score
>over Phalanx overall in my tests now, but Phalanx is particularly good at
>tactical shots and is still a tough opponent).
>
>--Jon

Hello Jon,

Thanks for making this excellent test suite available.  Running the latest
version of Djinn on the above position, (using my big iron, the FX-51) I get:

 2  00:00:00  -4.83  1. cxb6 gxf2+ 2. Kxf2 cxb6 3. Qc4+H Kb8 <HT>
 3  00:00:00  -4.03  1. cxb6 gxf2+ 2. Ke2 Rdf8 3. bxc7 Kxc7H 4. Qc4+ <HT>
 4  00:00:00  -4.44  1. Ba6 gxf2+ 2. Kxf2 Qf7+ 3. Kg1 Nxc5 4. dxc5 <HT>
 5  00:00:00   +.++  1. fxg3!!
 5  00:00:00  -1.80  1. Ba6 gxf2+ 2. Ke2 f1=Q+ 3. Nxf1 dxc5 4. Bxb7+ Kb8
                     5. Kd1 cxd4H 6. exd4 <HT>
 6  00:00:00  -1.04  1. Ba6 gxf2+ 2. Ke2 f1=Q+ 3. Nxf1 Kb8 4. Bxb7 Rh1
 7  00:00:01  -0.90  1. Ba6 gxf2+ 2. Ke2 f1=Q+ 3. Nxf1 Nxc5 4. dxc5 Kd7
                     5. Bxb7H bxc5H 6. Qa4+ <HT>
 8  00:00:05   +.++  1. Ba6!!
 8  00:00:16   1.98  1. Rxb7 gxf2+ 2. Kd1 Nb8 3. Qa8H Kd7H 4. Rxc7+H Kxc7H
                     5. Qa7+H Kc8H 6. Qxe7H bxc5H 7. Qxg5 <HT>
 9  00:00:26   0.75  1. Rxb7 gxf2+ 2. Kd1 Nb8 3. Qa8 Kd7H 4. Rxb8H Rxb8H
                     5. c6+H Ke8H 6. Qxb8+H Qd8H 7. Qxd8+H Kxd8H 8. Kc2 <HT>
10  00:00:31   +.++  1. Rxb7!!
10  00:03:49 MAT-10  1. Rxb7
11  00:04:09 MAT-10  1. Rxb7 gxf2+ <HT>
12  00:05:13 MAT-10  1. Rxb7 gxf2+ <HT>

The engine sees that 1. Rxb7 is promising after 16 seconds and confirms
Vincent's mate-in-10 after almost 4 minutes.  BTW, to head off the question,
Djinn now prints the time expended like 99.99% of the other engine's on the
planet (the peer pressure was simply unbearable ;-)  The time shown is the
accumulated time and *not* the time for the separate individual plies.

I intend to run Djinn against the other positions and if I see anything
of note, I'll let you know.

regards,
--tom



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