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Subject: Re: Kings attack / Piece sacrifice

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 14:35:49 07/29/04

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On July 29, 2004 at 12:45:47, John Merlino wrote:

>On July 29, 2004 at 08:20:52, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 29, 2004 at 01:46:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On July 28, 2004 at 17:39:10, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 28, 2004 at 16:03:53, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>How fast does your engine find the winning move 24.Bxg6
>>>>>but showing a positive score? Below the output of Crafty 19.15
>>>>>
>>>>>24.Bxg6!!
>>>>>[D]2r2rk1/p3bb1p/2n1Q1p1/q2pP3/3P1P2/p1NB1NR1/1P4P1/1K1R4 w - - 0 24
>>>>>
>>>>>[Event "New York"]
>>>>>[Site "New York"]
>>>>>[Date "1947.??.??"]
>>>>>[Round "?"]
>>>>>[White "Evans, L."]
>>>>>[Black "Pilnick, C."]
>>>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>>>[ECO "C13"]
>>>>>[PlyCount "57"]
>>>>>[EventDate "1947.??.??"]
>>>>>
>>>>>1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e5 Be7 7. Qg4 O-O 8.
>>>>>O-O-O c5 9. h4 cxd4 10. Nce2 Nc6 11. f4 Qa5 12. Kb1 d3 13. cxd3 Bd7 14. Rh3
>>>>>Rac8 15. Rg3 g6 16. d4 b5 17. h5 Nb4 18. a3 Nc6 19. hxg6 fxg6 20. Nc3 b4 21.
>>>>>Bd3 Be8 22. Nf3 bxa3 23. Qxe6+ Bf7 24. Bxg6 axb2 25. Bxh7+ Kh8 26. Qh6 Qa1+ 27.
>>>>>Kc2 b1=Q+ 28. Rxb1 Nb4+ 29. Kd1 1-0
>>>>
>>>>This position was posted several weeks ago, and resulted in a small article by
>>>>GM Evans in Chess Life.
>>>>
>>>>The original test position was to find 23.Qxe6+ with a winning score. That was
>>>>VERY difficult, and I don't know if any engine will be able to do it in under 10
>>>>minutes.
>>>>
>>>>jm
>>>
>>>Finding Qe6 with positive score in less than 10 minutes does not seem to me
>>>extremely hard task for the top engines
>>>
>>>Even weak movei on slow hardware almost can do it in analysis mode.
>>>
>>>depth=12 +0.08 g4e6 e8f7 d3g6 f7e6 g6h7 g8h8 d1h1 e7h4 h7d3 e6h3 f3h4 c6e5 d4e5
>>>a3a2 b1a1
>>>Nodes: 80220868 NPS: 125266
>>>Time: 00:10:40.40
>>>
>>>Note that movei usually search near 500 Knodes on A3000
>>>I am not sure if I can reproduce this result because movei analyzed another
>>>position earlier so it may have initial different order of pieces that can give
>>>different number of nodes but I do not expect a big difference.
>>>
>>>I will try later on fast hardware without previous analysis after I stop the
>>>match between movei and Jonny.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I remember the words positive score in the first post but I see now that
>>positive is not enough and you asked for winning score.
>>
>>Movei needs one ply more in order to find more convincing positive score of more
>>than 1 pawn for itself.
>>
>>Uri
>
>CM9_SKR, on an AMD 2500 (@1.8GHz), needs 8:29 to choose Qxe6+, and 15:23 to give
>that move a positive score. So, perhaps, on today's top end hardware, it could
>give the move a winning score in under 10 minutes.
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:01	1/6	-3.48	220998		23.Qh5 axb2 24.Bxg6 Bxg6+ 25.Rxg6+
>					Kh8 26.Rh1 Qa1+ 27.Kc2 Nxd4+ 28.Kd2
>					b1=N+ 29.Nxb1
>0:03	1/6	-3.23	475043		23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Qf5 axb2 25.e6
>					Be8 26.Qxd5 Qxc3
>0:04	1/6	-2.87	633468		23.f5 axb2 24.fxg6 Qa1+ 25.Kc2
>					Nxd4+ 26.Kd2 b1=N+ 27.Nxb1 Nxf3+
>					28.Rxf3 Qb2+ 29.Ke1 Qxe5+ 30.Kf1
>0:04	1/6	-2.82	794152		23.Bc2 Qb4 24.Na4 Nd8 25.Rd2 a2+
>					26.Kxa2 Bxa4 27.Bxg6
>0:05	1/7	-2.82	997750		23.Bc2 Qb4 24.Na4 Nd8 25.Rd2 a2+
>					26.Kxa2 Bxa4 27.Bxg6
>0:12	1/8	-2.92	2356505		23.Bc2 Qb4 24.Na4 Nd8 25.Rd2 Rxc2
>					26.Rxc2 Bxa4 27.Rf2 axb2 28.Rxb2
>0:22	1/8	-2.82	4691659		23.f5 axb2 24.fxg6 Qa1+ 25.Kc2
>					Nxd4+ 26.Kd2 b1=N+ 27.Nxb1 Nxf3+
>					28.Rxf3 Qb2+ 29.Ke1 Qxe5+ 30.Kf1
>					Rxf3+ 31.gxf3 hxg6 32.Bxg6
>0:48	1/9	-2.82	10215879	23.f5 axb2 24.fxg6 Qa1+ 25.Kc2
>					Nxd4+ 26.Kd2 b1=N+ 27.Nxb1 Nxf3+
>					28.Rxf3 Qb2+ 29.Ke1 Qxe5+ 30.Kf1
>					hxg6 31.Bxg6 Rxf3+ 32.gxf3
>2:28	2/10	-2.62	31832802	23.f5 Nxe5 24.dxe5 axb2 25.Na2
>					Rc1+ 26.Rxc1 Qxa2+ 27.Kxa2 bxc1=Q
>					28.Nd4 h5
>6:39	2/11	-2.77	88332852	23.f5 exf5 24.Bxf5 Rb8 25.Ne1 Kh8
>					26.Bc2 axb2 27.Ba4 Rb4 28.Nd3 Rxa4
>					29.Nxa4 Qxa4 30.Nxb2
>8:29	2/11	-1.92	114990905	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
>					Kh8 26.Rh1 a2+ 27.Nxa2 Bh4 28.Nxh4
>					Nxd4 29.Ng6+ Kg7 30.Nxf8+ Kxf8
>					31.Bd3
>15:23	2/12	1.45	213656701	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
>					Kh8 26.Rh1 a2+ 27.Ka1 Bh4 28.Rxh4
>					Rxf4 29.Rxf4 Nb4 30.Be4 Qd8
>
>It would be very interesting to test this on the latest version of The King that
>will ship with CM 10th Edition.... Johan?
>
>jm


The King 3.33, Version of the CM10 demo (may be there will be a next version
with final CM10) :

AMD barton@3000+

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
5:52	1/11	-2.75	90394063	23.f5 axb2 24.fxg6 Qa1+ 25.Kc2
					Nxd4+ 26.Kd2 b1=N+ 27.Nxb1 Nxf3+
					28.Rxf3 Qb2+ 29.Ke1 Qxe5+ 30.Kf1
					h5 31.Rxf8+ Bxf8 32.Qf3 Bg7 33.Qf2
7:15	1/11	-2.29	114155384	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
					Kh8 26.Rh1 a2+ 27.Nxa2 Bh4 28.Nxh4
					Nxd4 29.Ng6+ Kg7 30.Nxf8+ Kxf8
					31.Bd3
10:54	1/12	0.61	173999250	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
					Kh8 26.Rh1 a2+ 27.Ka1 Bh4 28.Rxh4
					Qd8 29.Bd3+ Qxh4 30.Nxh4 Rg8 31.Ng6+
					Kh7 32.Nf8+ Kh6
27:31	1/13	2.03	455483968	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
					Kh8 26.Rh1 Rxf4 27.Bf5+ Bh4 28.Nxh4
					a2+ 29.Nxa2 Rf1+ 30.Rxf1 Bxf5+
					31.Nxf5 Rc7 32.Rh1+ Rh7 33.Rxh7+
					Kxh7 34.Nc3 Kh8
58:32	2/14	2.11	999286589	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
					Kh8 26.Rh1 a2+ 27.Ka1 Bh4 28.Bd3
					Rxf4 29.Nxh4 Bg4 30.Ng6+ Kg7 31.Nxf4
					Nxd4 32.Rxg4+ Kf7
4:20:06	2/15	2.52	139991226	23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Bxe6 25.Bxh7+
					Kh8 26.Rh1 a2+ 27.Ka1 Bh4 28.Bd3
					Rxf4 29.Nxh4 Bg4 30.Ng6+ Kg7 31.Nxf4
					Nxd4 32.Rxg4+ Kf8 33.Ng6+ Kf7 34.Rxd4
					Rxc3



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