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Subject: Re: amazing move from Rybka in blitzgame

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 02:09:11 12/07/05

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On December 06, 2005 at 21:39:57, Will Singleton wrote:

>On December 06, 2005 at 18:17:32, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>TogaII is known to sac the exchange more often than others engine. Rybka seems
>>to do the same. The sac exchange in middle game is really hard to estimate, you
>>often get a more active piece (B or N) instead of a blockes rook. Other engines
>>have simpler estimation and simply decide to not give material !
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Vincent
>>
>
>That seems to be right.  This is a case where Fruit/Toga/Rybka play a move
>quickly due to eval, whereas others will never play it.  As the analysis below
>clearly shows, those programs are obviously clones of Amateur, but their
>programmers have cleverly avoided the first 13-14 plies of search due to
>fail-low pruning and other secret techniques:
>
>Amateur 2.86:
>
>14 -5   9611  39966361  Qe2 a4 Rg4 Ra5 e4 a3 Rg3
>14  0  10863  44947113  Qd2 a4 Ra1 a3 Qc1 Qa7 Nb1 a2 Nc3 Qb6 Rb4 Na6 Ra4
>                        Nc7 Rxa8 Rxa8 Rxa2 Rxa2 Nxa2 Nxb5
>15 -4  17596  72251056  Qd2 a4 Ra1 Rc8 Ra3 f5 Qf2 Rc7 Rb4 Qb6 Qg3 f4 Qxg6 fxe3
>                        Nxa4 Rxa4 Rxa4 Nxa4 Rxa4 Qxb5 Qxd6 Rxc2 Qxe5
>15  21 19884  81607297  Rxc5 dxc5 Ne4 Qa7 d6 c4 Qd5 Qxe3 Kh2 Qa7 b6 Qxb6
>                        Qxf7 Kh8 Qxg6 Qb7 Rf7
>16  19 26508 108388508  Rxc5 dxc5 Ne4 c4 Qxc4 Rc8 Qb3 a4 Qd3 f5 Nf2 Rc5 c4
>                        Qc8 d6 Rxc4 Qd5 Kh8 Qxe5

What's the unit of the time ? 26508 = 26.508 sec or 265.08 sec ?



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