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Subject: Re: How about a WCCC 2004 test suite? (NT)

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 07:16:37 07/14/04

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On July 13, 2004 at 12:59:40, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 12, 2004 at 15:55:06, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>?
>
>Here are some positions:

And some results with my latest version of the Baron on a Xeon 2.8. I only ran
the positions for 1 minute just to get an idea.
>

>Falcon-Shredder
>[D]r4bk1/1b4p1/p3p3/q3n1B1/Np1NnQ2/1P3p1R/P1P5/2KR4 w - - 0 22 bm Nxe6
The Baron selects this one alternating with Qh2, so it probably fails on this
one.
>[D]r4bkR/1b4p1/p3N1n1/q5B1/Np2nQ2/1P3p2/P1P5/2KR4 b - - 0 23 bm Nxh8
Not selected under a minute
>[D]r4bk1/1b1R2p1/p3NBn1/q7/Np1Q4/1P3p2/P1P5/2K5 b - - 0 26 bm Qf5
Selected in 13 seconds with drawish score

>
>Movei-Fritz
>[D]2r3k1/p4rpp/4bp2/4p3/QR2P3/P2qB1P1/5P1P/5RK1 b - - 0 25 bm a5
Not selected under a minute

>[D]2r3k1/1Q1b1rpp/5p2/4p3/8/P3BqP1/5P1P/1R3RK1 b - - 0 29 bm e4 relatively easy
>but movei expected Bc6 for more than a minute and only in the last iteration saw
>that the right move for black is e4
Selected under 2 seconds with score >3 in 4 seconds
>
>Isichess-Movei
>[D]2r4k/r5q1/3Pp3/1R4p1/1Pp1Q2p/7P/4B1PK/8 b - - 0 66 am c3(I think that Qf6 was
>better but I did not analyze it with engines except movei)
Not avoided within a minute.
>
>[D]3r4/3P1k2/8/1PR2BK1/6P1/2p5/1r6/8 b - - 0 81 am Rb3 bm c2 that could probably
>draw but I am not sure.
>
>Against it is not analyzed enough and I did not check if there is more than one
>good alternative.
Selected by the Baron in just under 1 minute, but without convincing draw score.
>
>Movei-Diep
>[D]1r6/4kpp1/b1pp3p/q1n1pP2/Pr2P3/1BN3Q1/P1P3PP/K2RR3 w - - 0 24 am Qg7
>
>Movei needed one ply more to solve it.
Not avoided by the Baron in one minute, but failing low on Qxg7 the next ply.
>
>Sjeng-Movei
>
>[D]r3r1k1/p4ppp/b2p4/B1p5/3bPPn1/3P4/PP4PP/2RNNR1K b - - 0 20 bm f5
>
>Movei could solve it in a correspondence game but it needed some plies more than
>it searched in the game and better hardware practically could not help without
>better software.
Not solved by the Baron in one minute.
>
>[D]r3r3/1p3pk1/p1p2p2/2Pp3p/1P4bP/P1KBP1P1/2R2P2/6R1 b - - 0 29 am f5
>
>May be easy for many programs but movei failed to solve it.
The Baron never selects f5. At first the Baron selects a5, but changes after 40
seconds to Re5 (with a draw-line, not draw score).
Richard.
>
>Uri



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