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Subject: Re: Zappa: 2.5 seconds

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 07:35:18 07/11/04

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On July 11, 2004 at 07:20:37, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On July 11, 2004 at 03:50:45, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>On July 10, 2004 at 21:49:04, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>1. Bf1-a6 g3xf2 2. Ke1-e2 f2-f1=Q 3. Nd2xf1 d6xc5 4. Ba6xb7 Kc8-b8 5. Qa2-a6
>>> = (-1.41)	Depth: 7/26	00:00:02.22	790kN
>>>1. Ra7xb7 g3xf2 2. Ke1-d1 Nd7-b8 3. Qa2-a8 Kc8-d7 4. Rb7xc7 Kd7xc7 5. Qa8-a7
>>>Kc7-c8 6. Qa7xe7
>>> = (4.10)	Depth: 7/26	00:00:02.52	984kN
>>>1. Ra7xb7 g3xf2 2. Ke1-d1 Nd7-b8 3. Qa2-a8 Kc8-d7 4. Bf1-b5 Nb8-c6 5. Bb5xc6
>>>Kd7xc6 6. Rb7xb6 Kc6-d7 7. Qa8-a4 Kd7-c8 8. Qa4-a6 Kc8-d7 9. Qa6-b5 Kd7-c8 10.
>>>Rb6-b8
>>> =   MAT10	Depth: 11/33	00:01:16.88	58547kN
>>>
>>>Zappa is not very good at getting deep PVs, so it takes some time for the mate
>>>score :(
>>>
>>>anthony
>>
>>SE ?
>>
>>Frank
>
>Nope.  I've been experimenting with SE, but all of my experiments have ended in
>failure.
>
>anthony

I tried (Bruce/Bob's simplified DeepBlue approach), but was never sure it was
working.  Impressive on some test positions, but _drained_ away plies in real
games.

2.5 seconds is impressive.

Frank



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