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Subject: Re: crafty problem

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 17:02:16 11/08/05

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On November 08, 2005 at 12:06:39, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On November 08, 2005 at 11:11:04, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On November 08, 2005 at 02:48:44, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>On November 08, 2005 at 01:21:03, Will Singleton wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 07, 2005 at 17:14:45, Rob Basham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>[D]6r1/p1pq1p1p/1p1p1Qnk/3PrR2/2n1P1PP/P1P5/4R3/6K1 w - - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Well, it is easy for Fidelity Mach 3.....:-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Mach 3 at level one finds all the correct moves to this mate in 11....!
>>>>>
>>>>>Beginning with....Rh5+
>>>>>
>>>>>How does your machine do on this one...?
>>>>>
>>>>>Rob
>>>>
>>>>Oddly, Crafty 20.0 bh cannot solve this.  Bug?  does it happen in the latest
>>>>crafty?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>on my system Crafty v20.0 BH finds mate in 11 easily
>>>same for v20.1
>>>
>>>               8->   0.63   0.01   1. Rh5+ Rxh5 2. g5+ Rxg5+ 3. hxg5+
>>>                                   Kh5 4. Rh2+ Kg4 5. Rg2+ Kh4 6. Qf2+
>>>                                   Kh5 7. Qe2+ Kh4 8. Qf2+
>>>               9     0.66     +1   1. Rh5+!!
>>>               9     0.66     +3   1. Rh5+!!
>>>               9     0.67     +M   1. Rh5+!!
>>>               9     0.74  Mat11   1. Rh5+ Rxh5 2. g5+ Rxg5+ 3. hxg5+
>>>                                   Kh5 4. Rh2+ Nh4 5. Qh6+ Kg4 6. Qxh4+
>>>                                   Kf3 7. Rf2+ Ke3 8. Qg3+ Kxe4 9. Qf3+
>>>                                   Ke5 10. Re2+ Ne3 11. Rxe3#
>>>               9->   0.82  Mat11   1. Rh5+ Rxh5 2. g5+ Rxg5+ 3. hxg5+
>>>                                   Kh5 4. Rh2+ Nh4 5. Qh6+ Kg4 6. Qxh4+
>>>                                   Kf3 7. Rf2+ Ke3 8. Qg3+ Kxe4 9. Qf3+
>>>                                   Ke5 10. Re2+ Ne3 11. Rxe3#
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Kind regards
>>>Bernhard
>>
>>So, of the four results for crafty posted here, two cannot find it, one takes a
>>long time, and yours finds < 1 sec.  I wonder what's going on?
>>
>>My setup is a p4 2.8ghz, now using crafty 20.1 bh, the rc file sets the hash to
>>96mb, and the phash to 6mb.  Winboard 4.26.
>>
>>Will
>
>Ok Will,
>I ran the position again for 10 sec. Here is the full output.
>As you can see I changed the extensions somewhat in crafty.rc.
>Kind regards
>Bernhard
>
>
>one-reply extension..................0.75
>in-check extension...................0.60
>recapture extension..................0.75
>mate thrt extension..................0.50
>5 piece tablebase files found
>13980kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
>EGTB cache memory =    8M bytes.
>
>

Ok, I figured out how to set the above extension values (aside: examples would
be nice in the docs!), and I have duplicated your results.  I guess the next
step would be for someone to run a couple of test suites with your extensions vs
the default, perhaps some games as well.

Will



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