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Subject: Symbolic: Search narrative update at web site

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 09:22:28 07/04/05


I've done some more work on Symbolic and it has produced a new search narrative
for the BWTC.0031 position.  The narration and the tree dump are linked from the
updated web site (you might have to hit "refresh" on your browser):

  http://www.geocities.com/chessnotation/

See:

  http://www.geocities.com/chessnotation/Story.html

Notes:

1. Symbolic thinks that BWTC.0031 is a mate in six, although the position is
really a mate in ten.  The program does get the first part of the analysis
correct.

2. I've fixed a few bugs with analysis propagation, and that has significantly
reduced the node count.

3. There is still a very long way to go.  Perhaps the next step will be to throw
the entire BWTC suite at Symbolic to see if the program crashes or hangs.

Excerpted fom the narration:

I've used five seconds of wall clock time in making the selection. I've used
four seconds of processor time performing the selection. My processor
utilization rate is eighty-three percent. The search tree has twenty-two
interior nodes and six leaf nodes for a total of twenty-eight nodes. The maximum
variation length is eleven ply. My selection rate is seven nodes per processor
second, and my mean node processor time is one hundred forty-four milliseconds.




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