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Subject: Re: DB will never play with REBEL, they simple are afraid no to do well

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 08:25:49 10/17/99

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On October 17, 1999 at 02:50:14, Ratko V Tomic wrote:

>>> 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5 exd5 4. Bf4 Bb4+ 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. e3 Nc6 7. Bb5
>>
>> 9->  16.35
>>10->  46.00  (EBF from 9->10 = 2.81)
>>11->   2:46  (EBF from 10->11 = 3.61)
>>12->   9:39  (EBF from 11->12 = 3.49)
>>Average EBF is 3.30333...
>>
>>Jeremiah
>
>Now I see that Fritz UI shows total nodes (for all iterations to a given depth).
>So I subtracted total nodes (and total times) shown for successive depths to get
>nodes evaluated at given depth setting, and here are the figures I get with
>Crafty 16.6 (on Celeron 400Mhz, 64Mb hash):
>
> Depth Tot.kN Delta.kN   BF    Time[s]  kN/s
> --------------------------------------------
>   8    2243    ....    ....     11     ...
>   9    4705    2462    5.13     23     205
>  10   11557    6852    4.83     57     202
>  11   38582   27025    4.74    189     205
>  12  119442   80860    4.56    579     207
> --------------------------------------------
>
>So the branching factors are 4.6-5.1, a bit larger spread than the earlier one
>(because now I included 8->9 which is the largest here, the others didn't change
>much). So it seems we get quite different BF. What version is your Crafty and
>does it show total nodes evaluated? Could you provide the node figures? I have
>used all default settings.

I can do this. :)  I'm using a modified Crafty 16.19 on a PII-300.

Depth Tot.kN Delta.kN   BF    Time[s]  kN/s
--------------------------------------------
  8    1044    ....    ....      9.5   110
  9    2121    1123    ....     18.5   115
 10    5782    3661    ....     47.75  121
 11   15431    9649    ....    124     124
 12   62174   46743    ....    495     125
--------------------------------------------

(Since you're calculating BF differently, I left these blank.


>Now that I was at it, I also tested Fritz 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32 and Rebel 10c on the
>same position. For Hiarcs & Rebel I didn't do depth 12, since 11-ply already
>took too long. Rebel and Hiarcs selected Bd3 move while Fritz and Crafty
>selected Bb5 (which was my move in the game), at all levels for all programs.

> Rebel 10c:
>
> Depth Tot.kN Delta.kN   BF    Time[s]  kN/s
> --------------------------------------------
>   8    3243    ....    ....     22     ...
>   9    6353    3110    5.26     45     135
>  10   18652   12209    5.11    135     136
>  11   56967   38405    4.89    410     140
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
>So none is getting BF close to 3.


Isn't the Effective Branching Factor equal to the time it takes for ply N
divided by the time it took for ply N-1?  I see that I may be calculating this
differently than you are.  I'll use your Rebel table above to show what I did.

> Rebel 10c:
>
> Depth Tot.kN Delta.kN   BF    Time[s]  kN/s
> --------------------------------------------
>   8    3243    ....    ....     22     ...
                                  ^^
Is this the total time up to that ply, or the time for just that ply, after
subtracting the ply 7 search?

>   9    6353    3110    5.26     45     135

By the time between ply 9 and 10 (45s to 135s), I would put the branching factor
at 3.

>  10   18652   12209    5.11    135     136
                ^^^^^
12209/3110 is not 5.11.  Neither is 135s/45s. . . . How are you getting 5.11 for
this Branching Factor?

Jeremiah



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