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Subject: Re: position

Author: Lance Perkins

Date: 00:39:21 10/06/05

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On October 06, 2005 at 03:20:00, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 06, 2005 at 03:17:15, Lance Perkins wrote:
>
>>On October 06, 2005 at 02:37:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On October 06, 2005 at 02:13:50, Lance Perkins wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 05, 2005 at 21:03:11, Will Singleton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>A comp played this move against my comp on ICC today, took less than 30 secs.
>>>>>Can any program find it as fast?
>>>>>
>>>>>[d]3rn1k1/2qbrp1p/1p1ppnpQ/p5NP/1PP1P3/P1N4R/4BPP1/3R2K1 w - - bm Rdd3
>>>>
>>>>Need 42 secs...
>>>>
>>>>Thinker 5.0c on a 2.4ghz AMD
>>>> 8      99   145    1347078 h5g6  f7g6  d1d2
>>>> 8     105   186    1649244 h3h4  d7c6  e2g4  c7c8
>>>> 9     108   848    7140678 f2f4  a5b4  a3b4  d7c6  e2g4
>>>>10      96  1787   14663556 h5g6  f7g6  h3h4  d7c6  e2d3
>>>>10      99  2037   16294503 h3h4  d7c6  d1d2  a5b4  h5g6
>>>>10     162  4246   29903901 d1d3  d6d5  c4d5
>>>
>>>congratulations.
>>>
>>>42*2.4/2=50.4 seconds
>>>
>>>50.4*32=1608.3
>>>
>>>Thinker is more than 32 times faster than Fruit2.2 that still does not find it
>>>after more than 35 minutes on my A3000(2ghz) after searching more than 1,300,000
>>>Knodes
>>>
>>>If you can only be more than 32 times faster than Fruit2.2 in every position
>>>then thinker may be more than 200 elo better than Fruit2.2
>>>
>>>Note that Fruit2.2's behaviour is interesring.
>>>At depth 15 it seems to be hypnotized by Rd3
>>>It cannot be convinced to play it but also cannot leave analyzing this move.
>>>
>>>Here is Fruit2.2's output(after 35 minutes of analysis)
>>>
>>>New game,
>>>3rn1k1/2qbrp1p/1p1ppnpQ/p5NP/1PP1P3/P1N4R/4BPP1/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Analysis by Fruit 2.2:
>>>
>>>1.hxg6 hxg6
>>>  +-  (1.96)   Depth: 1/8   00:00:00
>>>1.hxg6 fxg6 2.bxa5
>>>  +-  (1.68)   Depth: 2/15   00:00:00
>>>1.hxg6 fxg6 2.Rd2 axb4 3.axb4
>>>  +-  (1.68)   Depth: 3/15   00:00:00
>>>1.hxg6 fxg6 2.Rd2 Bc6 3.bxa5
>>>  +-  (1.48)   Depth: 4/15   00:00:00
>>>1.bxa5 bxa5 2.hxg6 fxg6 3.Nb5 Bxb5 4.cxb5
>>>  +-  (1.57)   Depth: 4/16   00:00:00
>>>1.Rd2 axb4 2.axb4 gxh5 3.Bxh5 Qxc4
>>>  +-  (1.63)   Depth: 4/17   00:00:00
>>>1.Rd2 Bc6 2.hxg6 fxg6 3.b5 Bb7
>>>  +-  (1.59)   Depth: 5/23   00:00:00
>>>1.Rd2 Bc6 2.Bd1 axb4 3.axb4 Ng7 4.hxg6 hxg6
>>>  +-  (1.46)   Depth: 6/24   00:00:00  69kN
>>>1.Rh4 Bc6 2.Bg4 axb4 3.axb4 Ng7 4.hxg6 hxg6
>>>  +-  (1.53)   Depth: 6/26   00:00:00  156kN
>>>1.b5 Ra8 2.Rdd3 gxh5 3.Rd2 e5
>>>  +-  (1.58)   Depth: 6/26   00:00:00  219kN
>>>1.b5 Rc8 2.hxg6 fxg6 3.Rd2 e5 4.Rh4 Qb7
>>>  +-  (1.48)   Depth: 7/26   00:00:01  329kN
>>>1.b5 Rc8 2.Rh4 Qb7 3.Rd2 e5 4.Nd5 Nxd5 5.Qxh7+ Kf8 6.Rxd5
>>>  +-  (1.45)   Depth: 8/30   00:00:01  683kN
>>>1.Rh4 Qa7 2.b5 Rc8 3.Rd2 e5 4.Nd5 Nxd5 5.Qxh7+ Kf8 6.Rxd5
>>>  +-  (1.49)   Depth: 8/30   00:00:01  921kN
>>>1.Rh4 Qa7 2.b5 Rc8 3.Rd2 Qb7 4.hxg6 fxg6 5.Rh3 e5
>>>  +-  (1.49)   Depth: 9/32   00:00:03  1859kN
>>>1.Rh4 Qa7 2.b5 Rc8 3.Rd2 Qb7 4.a4 e5 5.Nd5 Nxd5 6.Qxh7+ Kf8 7.Rxd5
>>>  +-  (1.45)   Depth: 10/40   00:00:06  3295kN
>>>1.Rh4 Qa7 2.b5 Rc8 3.Rd2 Qb7 4.a4 Rc5 5.hxg6 fxg6 6.Rh3 e5
>>>  +-  (1.41)   Depth: 11/40   00:00:12  7239kN
>>>1.Bd3 axb4 2.axb4 Bc6 3.Bc2 Qc8 4.Bb3 Nc7 5.Rf3 Nce8 6.Ra1 Rc7
>>>  +-  (1.57)   Depth: 11/40   00:00:30  17310kN
>>>1.Bd3 axb4 2.axb4 Bc6 3.Bc2 Qc8 4.Bb3 Nc7 5.Rf3 Nce8 6.Ra1 Rc7 7.hxg6 hxg6
>>>  +-  (1.57)   Depth: 12/42   00:00:34  20005kN
>>>1.Bd3 axb4 2.axb4 Bc6 3.Bc2 Bb7 4.e5 dxe5 5.Rxd8 Qxd8 6.Nxh7 Nxh7 7.hxg6 fxg6
>>>8.Qxg6+ Rg7 9.Qxe6+ Kf8 10.Rxh7 Rxg2+ 11.Kf1
>>>  +-  (1.81)   Depth: 13/46   00:00:52  31002kN
>>>1.Bd3 axb4 2.axb4 Bc6 3.Bc2 Bb7 4.e5 dxe5 5.Rxd8 Qxd8 6.Nxh7 Nxh7 7.hxg6 fxg6
>>>8.Qxg6+ Rg7 9.Qxe6+ Kf8 10.Rxh7 Rxg2+ 11.Kf1
>>>  +-  (1.81)   Depth: 14/50   00:01:10  42884kN
>>>1.Bd3 axb4 2.axb4 Bc6 3.Bc2 Bb7 4.e5 dxe5 5.Rxd8 Qxd8 6.Nxh7 Nxh7 7.hxg6 fxg6
>>>8.Qxg6+ Rg7 9.Qxe6+ Kf8 10.Rxh7 Rxg2+ 11.Kf1
>>>  +-  (1.81)   Depth: 15/52   00:01:48  67203kN
>>>
>>>(,  06.10.2005)
>>>
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I think you got the computation incorrectly. Thinker is not 32 times faster than
>>Fruit. In the Thinker output, you can see that it only does something like
>>700Knps, while in your output, Fruit does around 600Knps.
>>
>>Thinker does: 4246 29903901, which is 29903901 nodes in 42.46 secs.
>>Fruit does: 00:01:48 67203kN, which is 67203000 nodes in 108 secs.
>
>It is clearly more than 32 times faster not in nodes per second but in finding
>the move Rd3
>
>Uri

OK. You got me there.



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