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Subject: Re: How I Learned to Stop Hating 141 & Crafty 19.17

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 07:15:53 09/03/04

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On September 03, 2004 at 08:57:49, Andrew Platt wrote:

>Just to show how slippery this position is, I just tried it with Crafty 19.17
>and it fails to find the mate in ply 9 and now takes a long time to find it:
>

Interesting, Crafty 19.16 here (which I don't read the source of before
implementing any of my code unless I have had programmer's block for 2
solid weeks on the same subject) can solve it but it takes a while.

>unable to open book file [./book.bin].
>book is disabled
>unable to open book file [./books.bin].
>
>Crafty v19.17
>
>White(1): ponder off
>pondering disabled.
>White(1): setboard 4r1k1/p1qr1p2/2pb1Bp1/1p5p/3P1n1R/1B3P2/PP3PK1/2Q4R w - -
>White(1): analyze
>Analyze Mode: type "exit" to terminate.
>              clearing hash tables
>              time surplus   0.00  time limit 22.50 (3:30)
>              depth   time  score   variation (1)
>                7     0.26     +1   1. Kf1!!
>                7     0.57  -1.88   1. Kf1 Kf8 2. Bc2 c5 3. dxc5 Qxc5 4.
>                                    Qd2 Qd5
>                7->   0.59  -1.88   1. Kf1 Kf8 2. Bc2 c5 3. dxc5 Qxc5 4.
>                                    Qd2 Qd5
>                8     1.52     +1   1. Kf1!!
>                8     3.41  -0.99   1. Kf1 a5 2. Rxh5 gxh5 3. Rxh5 Re1+
>                                    4. Kxe1 Nxh5 5. Qg5+ Kf8 6. Qh6+ Kg8
>                                    7. Qxh5
>                8->   3.46  -0.99   1. Kf1 a5 2. Rxh5 gxh5 3. Rxh5 Re1+
>                                    4. Kxe1 Nxh5 5. Qg5+ Kf8 6. Qh6+ Kg8
>                                    7. Qxh5
>                9     7.75  -0.70   1. Kf1 a5 2. Rxh5 gxh5 3. Rxh5 Re1+
>                                    4. Kxe1 Nxh5 5. Qg5+ Kf8 6. Qh6+ Ke8
>                                    7. Qh8+ Bf8 8. Qxh5
>                9     8.59     +1   1. Qxf4!!
>                9     8.98     +3   1. Qxf4!!
>                9     9.80     +M   1. Qxf4!!
>                9    46.31  12.35   1. Qxf4 Be5 2. dxe5 Qd8 3. Bxd8 Rexd8
>                                    4. Qf6 Kf8 5. Bxf7
>                9->  46.32  12.35   1. Qxf4 Be5 2. dxe5 Qd8 3. Bxd8 Rexd8
>                                    4. Qf6 Kf8 5. Bxf7
>               10    59.13     +1   1. Qxf4!!
>               10     1:12     +3   1. Qxf4!!
>               10     1:32     +M   1. Qxf4!!
>               10     7:05  Mat06   1. Qxf4 Bxf4 2. Rxh5 gxh5 3. Rxh5 Bh6
>                                    4. Rxh6 Qh2+ 5. Kxh2 Kf8 6. Rh8#
>               10->   7:05  Mat06   1. Qxf4 Bxf4 2. Rxh5 gxh5 3. Rxh5 Bh6
>                                    4. Rxh6 Qh2+ 5. Kxh2 Kf8 6. Rh8#
>exit           11     7:30    1/6?  1. Qxf4
>White(1): exit
>analyze.White(1): analyze complete.
>
>
>I'm still not seeing it till ply 12 so mine takes even longer!
>
>Andy.



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