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Subject: Re: Nimzo 7.32 in BT2630 test (individual results)

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 04:31:26 12/06/99

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On December 03, 1999 at 23:56:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 03, 1999 at 08:05:23, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 1999 at 01:27:03, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>As first program ever Nimzo got 30/30 in that test, when PC is AMD K6-2/450 and
>>>hash 40MB.
>>>Individual results in seconds (all positions kept at least 2 more plys):
>>>
>>>   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
>>>0  1  2  3 58  3  2  1  1  2  5
>>>1  1  1 573 1  4 180 1  1  3  2
>>>2  28 1  4  8  4  1  1 108 95 2
>>>
>>>Quite stunning!
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>Test available at:
>>>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2640/pgn/tests/index.htm.
>>
>>Some years ago we had the results for this test (BT2630) of many programs.
>>That was interesting.
>>So I will give the results for Crafty too.
>>
>>Hardware: Intel 2x P3-450
>>Software: Crafty 17.3   24,8,8 Mb hash
>>
>>  I   1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     10
>>--I-----------------------------------------------------------
>>0 I   1     4     9    17     0     0     0     0    18      3
>>1 I   0     0   248     2   114   900     4    12    26      0
>>2 I 270     0   900   900     7     0     4   213   900      0
>>
>>Total time: 4552;  Elo: 2478
>>
>>Remark:
>>Pos 15: e5 is found after 4.7 sec at ply 9, but fails low at ply 11 and
>>        Crafty likes Rf6+ followed by e5 with a score of 2.0 at ply 14.
>>        1. Rf6+ Kg7 2. e5 is shown after 114 sec.
>>Pos 16: Crafty 17.2 finds 1. ... Nxg2 after 25:42 min.
>>
>>Does anybody disagree with 1.Rf6+ in pos 15?
>The C.A.P. record for this position (looks like a Rebel generated one) says:
>pv e5 dxe5 Rf6+ Kg7
>with a depth of 13 ply and a ce of 146.
>
>The alternate evaluation is:
>ce 173
>pv e5 dxe5 Rf6+ Kg7 Rd6 Qf7 Qxf7+ Kxf7 Rxh6 Bg4 Nf6 Nxc4 Nxh5 e4 Nf6
>and appears to be crafty generated.
>
>What does your crafty say if you let it run longer?  Did you fix the sign bug on
>the character array?  There is one other thing that needs attention in the 17.3
>sources also:
>This is clearly a bug.  The macro Captured can never yield a negative number.
>	  Captured (move) != -king &&
>valid.c(206)        : Warning 650: Constant out of range for operator '!='
>
>Here is the actual definition:
>CHESS.H ( 1058): #define Captured(a)         (((a)>>15)&7)
>
>If you have fixed both problems, what answer do you get with your crafty when
>allowed to run a long time on the position?

Crafty says:
14    12:53   2.05   1. Rf6+ Kg7 2. e5 dxe5 3. Rd6 Qf7 4.
                     Qxf7+ Kxf7 5. Rxh6 Nxc4 6. Rxh5 e4
                     7. Rh7+ Ke6 8. Nf4+ Ke5 9. Rxa7 Bg4
                     10. Rc7
No, I havn't changed anything.
What should I change exactly?
Kind regards
Bernhard



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