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Subject: Re: Once again a loss

Author: Edward Screven

Date: 17:30:37 03/06/99

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On March 05, 1999 at 18:38:40, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>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?

i don't think finding this depends on anything special.  maybe gnuchess
is pruning too agressively.  i've included output from my own program
(on a pentium 133) so you can compare PVs.

  - edward

        0.14   5    -0.82  Re1 Bd7 Bf6 Kh5 e8=Q Bxe8 Rexe8
        0.15   5 >  +0.00  Rh4+
        0.16   5    +0.00  Rh4+ Kg5 Bf6+ Kf5 Bd4+ Kg5 Bf6+
        0.32   5 >  +0.01  h4
        0.36   5 >  +0.51  h4
        0.52   5 >  +1.51  h4
        0.68   5    +1.55  h4 g5 Rxe8 Qc1+ Kh2 Qc2 hxg5+ Kg6
        0.84   6 >  +1.85  h4
        0.99   6    +2.21  h4 g5 Rxe8 Qb1+ Kh2 gxh4 Rh8+ Kg5 e8=Q Qxe4
        1.73   7 >  +2.51  h4
        2.04   7 >  +3.01  h4
        2.28   7    +3.24  h4 g5 Rxe8 Qxe4 Rh8+ Kg6 e8=Q+ Kf5
        3.79   8    +3.31  h4 g5 Rxe8 Qb1+ Kh2 Qxe4 Rh8+ Kg6 e8=Q+ Kf5 Bf6
final   4.72   8.   +3.31  h4 g5 Rxe8 Qb1+ Kh2 Qxe4 Rh8+ Kg6 e8=Q+ Kf5 Bf6



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