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Subject: Re: Once again a loss

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 15:38:40 03/05/99

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On March 04, 1999 at 11:48:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 04, 1999 at 11:00:46, Randy Lovelace wrote:
>
>>In this position La Dame Blanche played h4!! in only 5 sec
>>Rebel 10c cant find this move after 10min on my machine
>>This was a game played by my program RLchess once again a passed
>>pawn kills me
>>4bR2/4P3/1np3pk/1p2B3/p3R3/8/2q3PP/7K w - - bm h4!!;id Ldb-RLchess;
>>Randy Lovelace
>
>
>You must have set the position up wrong.  I ran this on crafty and got
>the following:
>
>                6     0.27   0.46   1. Ref4 Qc1+ 2. Rf1 Qxf1+ 3. Rxf1 Nc4
>                                    4. Bh8 Nd6 5. Be5 Ne4
>                6     0.66     ++   1. h4!!
>                6->   0.70   0.85   1. h4
>                7     0.98     ++   1. h4!!
>                7     2.11   3.45   1. h4 Qb1+ 2. Kh2 g5 3. Rxe8 Qxe4 4.
>                                    Rh8+ Kg6 5. e8=Q+ Kf5 6. Qf7+ Kxe5
>                                    7. Re8+ Kd4 8. Rxe4+ Kxe4 9. hxg5
>                7->   2.43   3.45   1. h4 Qb1+ 2. Kh2 g5 3. Rxe8 Qxe4 4.
>                                    Rh8+ Kg6 5. e8=Q+ Kf5 6. Qf7+ Kxe5
>                                    7. Re8+ Kd4 8. Rxe4+ Kxe4 9. hxg5
>                8     3.25     ++   1. h4!!
>                8     6.18   7.19   1. h4 g5 2. Rxe8 Kg6 3. Rf8 Qd1+ 4.
>                                    Kh2 Qd7 5. e8=Q+ Qxe8 6. Rxe8 <HT>
>                8->   6.87   7.19   1. h4 g5 2. Rxe8 Kg6 3. Rf8 Qd1+ 4.
>                                    Kh2 Qd7 5. e8=Q+ Qxe8 6. Rxe8 <HT>
>                9     8.78   7.19   1. h4 g5 2. Rxe8 Kg6 3. Rf8 Qd1+ 4.
>                                    Kh2 Qd7 5. e8=Q+ Qxe8 6. Rxe8 <HT>
>                  9->  10.34   7.19   1. h4 g5 2. Rxe8 Kg6 3. Rf8 Qd1+ 4.
>                                    Kh2 Qd7 5. e8=Q+ Qxe8 6. Rxe8 <HT>
>               10    16.98   7.14   1. h4 g5 2. Rxe8 Qd1+ 3. Kh2 Qd7 4.
>                                    Rh8+ Kg6 5. Bg3 gxh4 6. Bxh4 Nc4 7.
>                                    Rg8+ Kf5 8. e8=Q Qxe8 9. Rgxe8
>
>I can't imagine a program like Rebel not finding that.

This is some kind of monster problem for some programs that don't
have some feature.

GNU Chess 5.0 took quite a while to find h4 and not until 8 ply at that.

So the question is, Bob, what do you think in Crafty is enabling it
to see the solution sooner than Rebel or GNU Chess 5.0 BETA?

white
. . . . b R . .
. . . . P . . .
. n p . . . p k
. p . . B . . .
p . . . R . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . q . . . P P
. . . . . . . K

White (1) : post
White (1) : go
Read opening book (book.dat)... Opening database: 89122 book positions.
In this position, 0 moves are book moves.

Root = -193, Phase = 5 Depth = 12
 1.   -137     20       265  Rh4+ Kg5 Rd4
 2&   -160     22      1582  Rh4+ Kg5 Bf6+ Kf5 Bc3+ Kg5
 2.   -160     26      2602  Rh4+ Kg5 Bf6+ Kf5 Bc3+ Kg5
 3+    -48     40      9855  Rh4+
 3&    -48     40      9859  Rh4+ Kg5 Bf6+ Kf5 Bd4+ Ke6 Bxb6 Kxe7
 3.    -48     55     19367  Rh4+ Kg5 Bf6+ Kf5 Bd4+ Ke6 Bxb6 Kxe7
 4&    -79     89     35491  Rh4+ Kg5 Bf6+ Kf5 Bd4+ Ke6 Rxe8 Qc1+ Bg1
                                 Nd5
 4+     32    137     60029  Ref4
 4&     72    164     80836  Ref4 g5 Rh8+ Kg6 Rf6+ Kg7 Rxe8
 4.     72    166     81918  Ref4 g5 Rh8+ Kg6 Rf6+ Kg7 Rxe8
 5+    154    196     97894  Ref4
 5&    176    204    102177  Ref4 Qc1+ Rf1 Qxf1+ Rxf1 Nc4 Bg3 c5 Rf8 Bc6
                                 e8=B Bxe8 Rxe8
 5.    176    278    139643  Ref4 Qc1+ Rf1 Qxf1+ Rxf1 Nc4 Bg3 c5 Rf8 Bc6
                                 e8=B Bxe8 Rxe8
 6&    176    308    155830  Ref4 Qc1+ Rf1 Qxf1+ Rxf1 Nc4 Bg3 c5 Rf8 Bc6
                                 e8=B Bxe8 Rxe8
 6&    191    604    313275  Rh4+ Kg5 Rhf4 Qd1+ Rf1 Qe2 Bf6+ Kg4 h3+ Kg3
                                 Rf3+ Qxf3 Be5+ Qf4 Bxf4+
 6.    191    715    371801  Rh4+ Kg5 Rhf4 Qd1+ Rf1 Qe2 Bf6+ Kg4 h3+ Kg3
                                 Rf3+ Qxf3 Be5+ Qf4 Bxf4+
 7&    176   2370   1217392  Rh4+ Kg5 h3 Qe2 Rg4+ Qxg4 Bf6+ Kf5
 7+    285   3668   1885306  Ref4
 7&    306   3996   2063453  Ref4 Qc1+ Rf1 Qxf1+ Rxf1 Nd5 Rf8 Bd7 Rd8
 7.    306   4483   2319701  Ref4 Qc1+
 8&    320   5039   2618370  Ref4 Qc1+ Rf1 Qxf1+ Rxf1 Nd5 Rf8 Bd7 Rd8
                                 Nxe7 Bf6 Kh5
 8+    411  12376   6380481  h4
 8&    535  81782  47748043  h4 g5 Rxe8 Kg6 Rg8+ Kf5 Rb4
 8.    535 109645  60919885  h4 g5



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