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Subject: Re: LONG POST -- need expert opinions

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 17:16:56 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 19:07:51, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 11, 2000 at 18:41:35, Andrew Walker wrote:
>>
>>For fun I picked one of the positions from your list at random and
>>analysed it overnight on a 450Mhz machine using Crafty 17.5
>>The nps count seems a bit low, it may have been slowing down at the
>>larger depths. Anyway, it shows that in this position crafty does eventually
>>get to a more equal score. Is anyone willing to try this or others
>>with crafty or other progs such as rebel?
>[snip]
>[D]r1bq1r1k/p4Ppp/1p3n2/2p1n3/2B5/2P1PN2/P3QPPP/R1B2RK1 b
>[snip]
>>               17   228:06  -0.46   1. ... Bg4 2. e4 Nh5 3. Bd5 Bxf3 4.
>>                                    gxf3 Ng6 5. Qd1 Nhf4 6. Bxf4 Nxf4 7.
>>                                    Kh1 Nxd5 8. exd5 Qf6 9. c4 Rxf7 <HT>
>>               17-> 261:55  -0.46   1. ... Bg4 2. e4 Nh5 3. Bd5 Bxf3 4.
>>                                    gxf3 Ng6 5. Qd1 Nhf4 6. Bxf4 Nxf4 7.
>>                                    Kh1 Nxd5 8. exd5 Qf6 9. c4 Rxf7 <HT>
>>               18   507:18  -0.48   1. ... Bg4 2. e4 Nh5 3. Bd5 Bxf3 4.
>>                                    gxf3 Ng6 5. Qd1 Nhf4 6. Bxf4 Nxf4 7.
>>                                    Kh1 Nxd5 8. exd5 Qf6 9. c4 Rxf7 10.
>>                                    Re1 Qc3 11. Rc1 Qxf3+ 12. Qxf3 Rxf3
>>               18-> 613:30  -0.48   1. ... Bg4 2. e4 Nh5 3. Bd5 Bxf3 4.
>>                                    gxf3 Ng6 5. Qd1 Nhf4 6. Bxf4 Nxf4 7.
>>                                    Kh1 Nxd5 8. exd5 Qf6 9. c4 Rxf7 10.
>>                                    Re1 Qc3 11. Rc1 Qxf3+ 12. Qxf3 Rxf3
>[snip]
>Yes, exactly.  Notice how the score is steadily dropping.  The supercomputer
>came up with about half that number:
>
>r1bq1r1k/p4Ppp/1p3n2/2p1n3/2B5/2P1PN2/P3QPPP/R1B2RK1 b - - bm Bg4; ce -28;
>
>Which is much more in line with what would be expected from theory (the position
>is about even for a frequently played opening position).  We will see this
>behavior all the time for gambit type openings.  It takes the computer a long
>time to see the benefits (if it ever does).
>
>Thank you very much for looking into this for me.  It is yet another
>confirmation of my suspicions about the superiority of the supercomputer
>solution.
>
>Interestingly, we are using only a tiny fraction of the supercomputer's true
>power and the positions are only being run for a few minutes.  Pretty awesome,
>isn't it?

Can we get tiny information about this mysterious supercomputer ?

What king of CPU or how many CPU or what's the software ?



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