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Subject: Re: Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:42:56 08/10/00

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On August 10, 2000 at 17:23:32, Tim Foden wrote:

>On August 10, 2000 at 16:17:47, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
>
>>Unbelievable, but true:
>>I composed a position which is mate in 1 and can easily found, but Fritz6 on
>>Pentium III, 500 Mhz and 32 MB Hash needs more than 1 hour to show it (excatly
>>1:03:17)!!!
>>How do other computers react?
>>
>>The position is
>>FEN: [D]8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1
>
>Green Light takes just over 29 seconds on my K6/2 333Mhz:
>
>------------------
> fen 8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1
> Game finished test: 0
> time limit 178.00
> Game stage: Opening
> Current eval: -0.21
> Ply    CE  Time     Nodes  Principal variation
>  1     ++    23     18913  Nxc6    (a=-0.71 b=0.29 e=0.29)
>  1     35   107     94418  Nxc6
>  1    245   221    194150  Nxc4
>  1    431   249    225981  Nxd4
>  1    488   250    227290  Rxd4
>  1    521  1771   1641120  fxe4
>  1    719  2891   2779247  dxe4
>  1  32099  2907   2795807  Qh1#
>  1  32099  2908   2795811  Qh1#
> Max eval diff 1 2.39, 2 0.98
> local:  t=29.08  nps=96135.4  n=2795811  (f=3  q=2795808)
> total:  t=7:30  nps=110487.0  n=49749871
> extensions:  check=2  recapture=0  pawn push=0  1-reply=0
> q-moves:  generated=9774356  considered=5271969  made/unmade=2795759
> !Qa1-h1 32099
>move Qa1-h1
>--------------------
>
>The major reason for the time usage is the quiescence search, which it the bit
>that searches until all potential capture gains have been found.
>
>If you look carfully... GLC has only searched full alpha-beta 3 nodes!!
>But it searched 2,795,808 quiecence nodes.
>
>Cheers, Tim.

Is Green Light your program? It shows six different PV's I wonder how it
considered only three nodes in full.
José.



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