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

Author: Michael Henderson

Date: 07:41:04 09/03/04

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On September 03, 2004 at 10:16:46, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On September 03, 2004 at 10:13:35, Michael Henderson wrote:
>
>>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:
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>my engine, which has only mate threat extension and a captures only qsearch,
>>also takes 12 plies to find the mate.  It sees that Qxf4 is winning at ply 9. I
>>use R = 2/3.
>>132 seconds for a 12 ply search.
>>
>>setboard 4r1k1/p1qr1p2/2pb1Bp1/1p5p/3P1n1R/1B3P2/PP3PK1/2Q4R w - - bm Qxf4; id
>>analyze
>>
>>1 -101 0 375 g2h2
>>2 -121 0 94 g2h2 e8e2
>>3 -168 1 1238 g2f1 f4d3 c1c2
>>4 -174 1 1589 g2f1 f4e2 c1c2 a7a5
>>5 -159 4 14044 g2f1 e8e2 h1g1 a7a5 g1g3
>>6 -175 15 36735 g2f1 c6c5 d4c5 f4d3 c1h6 d6c5
>>7 -180 48 125259 g2f1 e8e2 c1b1 d6e7 h4f4 c7f4 f1e2 e7f6
>>8 -166 109 269919 g2f1 e8e2 c1b1 e2d2 b1c1 d6b4 h1g1 c7d6
>>9 578 740 2537825 c1f4 d6e7 b3f7 g8f8 f6e5 g6g5 f4f5 c7a5 f5d7 f8f7 h4h5 a5a2
>>10 903 1506 3165852 c1f4 d6e7 h4h5 e7f6 f4f6 c7g3 f2g3 g6h5 f6g6 g8f8 g6c6 d7d4
>>c6b5
>>11 951 3393 8126737 c1f4 d6e7 h4h5 e7f6 f4f6 c7g3 g2g3 g6h5 f6c6 e8e7
>>12 19986 13175 40793708 c1f4 d6e7 h4h5 e7f6 f4f6 c7g3 g2g3 g6h5 h1h5 e8e7 f6h8#
>>move c1f4
>
>Hmm -- guess I feel heartened that even the great Crafty sees that the
>reply to Qxf4 is not Bxf4.

Both Be7 and Bxf4 lose in the same amount of ply, so it is probably nothing to
worry about--the same score would be backed up.



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