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Subject: Re: Difficult position for programs, at least for Crafty.

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 07:44:49 08/10/99

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On August 10, 1999 at 10:24:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 10, 1999 at 02:25:56, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 1999 at 12:24:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 09, 1999 at 10:02:42, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hallo,
>>>>
>>>>recently I came across a position from a game
>>>>Haenninnen - Szabo, Wageningen.
>>>>
>>>>The position is
>>>>FEN: 3r1rk/pp1q2b/3p2pp/PP1Np2n/2Pp1p/B2P2Pb/3QPPBP/R4RK w
>>>>
>>>>The game went on
>>>>19. Bxd6 Bxg2
>>>>20. Bxf8 Qh3
>>>>21. Bxg7 f3
>>>>22. exf3 Bxf3
>>>>23. Ne3  Kg7
>>>>24. Qb4  Rd7
>>>>25. Ra2  Nf6
>>>>White resigned.
>>>>
>>>>Programs have difficulties to find out that 19. Bxd6 is bad.
>>>>The whole line seems to be difficult at least for Crafty.
>>>>BTW Crafty produces a lot of debug messages on a Sun, not on a PC.
>>>>
>>>>Enjoy
>>>>Bernhard
>>>
>>>
>>>What is "a lot of debug messages"?  If you are getting oddball error messages
>>>then something is definitely wrong...
>>>
>>Messages like this:
>>captured a king
>>piece=5,from=51,to=44,captured=3
>>ply=16
>>My logfile is 5.2 Mb in size.
>>
>>
>>>As far as the position goes, the end has a B on F3, Q on h3, which is a known
>>>"null-move" killer...
>>
>>Oh, not known to me. But I feared it would be a null move problem again -:)
>>Kind regards
>>Bernhard
>
>
>That is definitely bad.  Such errors should never occur, and are only present
>to catch errors that I introduce when changing the code...  Can you post a
>FEN for aposition that will produce such an error?

Of course
FEN: 3r1rk/pp1q2b/3p2pp/PP1Np2n/2Pp1p/B2P2Pb/3QPPBP/R4RK w
See above.

BTW the hardware is a Ultra Sparc with 2 procs.
fpversion gives:
 A SPARC-based CPU is available.
 CPU's clock rate appears to be approximately 166.8 MHz.
 Kernel says CPU's clock rate is 168.0 MHz.
 Kernel says main memory's clock rate is 84.0 MHz.

 Sun-4 floating-point controller version 0 found.
 An UltraSPARC chip is available.
 FPU's frequency appears to be approximately 170.5 MHz.

 Use "-xtarget=ultra" code-generation option.

The OS is Solaris 7 from May 99. It's the 64-bit version.
The compiler is gcc2.95

Kind regards
Bernhard



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