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Subject: Re: A test position for chess programs

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:34:14 02/23/99

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On February 23, 1999 at 16:17:09, blass uri wrote:

>3r1b1k/pp6/2n2q1p/2Bp1B1Q/5P2/1P4p1/P7/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
>
>This position is from a correspondence game
>
>White played 34.Re6(This is the best move and probably leads to a draw)
>
>This is a hard position for chess programs.
>
>Chessmaster6000 needed more than 20 minutes with ss=6
>and almost 8 minutes with ss=10 on pentium200MMX
>
>other programs are even slower and cannot solve it in a reasonable time.
>
>I am interested to know What is the result of Hiarcs7 with selectivity=5,6,7.
Crafty never finds it either (after 12 minutes on a busy machine).  Crafty
settles on Re8 instead.  If I remember when I leave tonight, I will set up
Hiarcs 7 to analyze the problem.

You come up with such wonderful test problems.
1.  Do you have them all in one collection of EPD?
2.  Can I have a copy?

Crafty v16.5 (1 cpus)

White(1): go
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 12:50 (12:50)
              depth   time  score   variation (1)
                5     0.14     --   1. Be3
                5     0.15  -5.29   1. Be3 d4 2. Kg2 dxe3 3. Rxe3
                5     0.19     ++   1. Bxf8!!
                5     0.30  -3.34   1. Bxf8 Rxf8 2. Re8 Nd4 3. Rxf8+ Qxf8
                                    4. Bg6 Qxf4 5. Qxd5
[snip]
               10->   1:02  -2.65   1. Bxf8 Rxf8 2. Re8 Nd4 3. Rxf8+ Qxf8
                                    4. Bd3 Qxf4 5. Qe8+ Kg7 6. Qd7+ Kf6
                                    7. Qd8+ Kf7 8. Qxd5+ Kf6 9. Qxb7
               11     1:19     --   1. Bxf8
               11     2:43  -3.35   1. Bxf8 Rxf8 2. Re8 Rxe8 3. Qxe8+ Kg7
                                    4. Qd7+ Ne7 5. Qxb7 Kf7 6. Bh7 Qb2
                                    7. Bg8+ Kxg8 8. Qxe7 <HT>
               11     5:18     ++   1. Re8!!
               11     5:31  -2.80   1. Re8 Rxe8 2. Qxe8 Qxf5 3. Bxf8 Kh7
                                    4. Kg2 h5 5. Qa8 Qd7 6. Kxg3 Qg4+ 7.
                                    Kf2 Qxf4+
               11->   5:56  -2.80   1. Re8 Rxe8 2. Qxe8 Qxf5 3. Bxf8 Kh7
                                    4. Kg2 h5 5. Qa8 Qd7 6. Kxg3 Qg4+ 7.
                                    Kf2 Qxf4+
               12     6:29  -2.97   1. Re8 Rxe8 2. Qxe8 Qxf5 3. Bxf8 Kh7
                                    4. Kg2 Qxf4 5. Qd7+ Kg6 6. Qe6+ Qf6
                                    7. Qxf6+ Kxf6 8. Kxg3 h5 9. Kf4
               12->  10:22  -2.97   1. Re8 Rxe8 2. Qxe8 Qxf5 3. Bxf8 Kh7
                                    4. Kg2 Qxf4 5. Qd7+ Kg6 6. Qe6+ Qf6
                                    7. Qxf6+ Kxf6 8. Kxg3 h5 9. Kf4
               13    12:00  -2.81   1. Re8 Rxe8 2. Qxe8 Qxf5 3. Bxf8 Kh7
                                    4. Kg2 h5 5. Kxg3 Qg4+ 6. Kf2 Qxf4+
                                    7. Ke2 Qg4+ 8. Kf2 Qd4+ 9. Ke2 <HT>
              time=12:50  cpu=99%  mat=-2  n=108423624  fh=91%  nps=140718
              ext-> checks=8517429 recaps=327123 pawns=496705 1rep=766660
              predicted=0  nodes=108423624  evals=14143415
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0  plimit=17
              SMP->  split=0  stop=0  data=0/64  cpu=12:50  elap=12:50



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