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Subject: Re: If you like to solve mate for light position...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 09:23:35 02/11/01

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On February 11, 2001 at 08:19:40, Tim Foden wrote:

>On February 11, 2001 at 07:41:00, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>If you like to solve a mate, you can try the next one:
>>
>>[D]3n1nbk/5qpp/2Q2nq1/1pbQNBB1/p1p1QNn1/2B2Q2/1PP1P3/2K4R w - -
>>
>>Please, say your result.
>
>Hi Leonid,
>
>Green Light Chess v2.13-pr1 finds a mate in 9 ater 10.51 seconds,
>and then finds a shorter mate in 8 after 20.73 seconds.  It sticks
>with this for a full 15 mins.  I guess we'll have to wait for other
>results to see if a shorter mate is found, or proven not to exist by
>chest.

Ok, here is my part of the performance:  There is no mate in 7 according
to Chest (32.7 minutes, K7/600, 350MB hash).
As a mate in 8 is found, already, I'm not going to ask Chest for it.
Effective branching factor for Chest is around 16, here.

Heiner


>Cheers, Tim.
>
>Analysis, GLC 2.13-pr1, 24MB hash, 920MHz Duron:
>
>>anal
> Game stage: Opening
> Current eval: 18.38
> Ply  Time  Score   Nodes  Principal Variation

>  8   5.21     ++ 3602654  Nfxg6+  (a=35.84 b=36.84 e=36.84)
>  8  10.51 320.83 7709270  Nfxg6+ Nxg6 Nxg6+ Qxg6 Qxg8+ Kxg8 Bxg6 Bf8 Qcd5+ Kh8
>                             Rxh7+ Nxh7 Qg8+ Kxg8 Bxh7+ Kh8 Qxf8# <ht>
>  8  16.66 320.83  13745k  Nfxg6+ Nxg6 Nxg6+ Qxg6 Qxg8+ Kxg8 Bxg6 Bf8 Qcd5+ Kh8
>                             Rxh7+ Nxh7 Qg8+ Kxg8 Bxh7+ Kh8 Qxf8# <ht>
>  9  20.73 320.85  18003k  Nfxg6+ Nxg6 Nxg6+ Qxg6 Qxg8+ Kxg8 Bxg6 Bf8 Qee8 Nxc6
>                             <ht>
>  9  33.64 320.85  31079k  Nfxg6+ Nxg6 Nxg6+ Qxg6 Qxg8+ Kxg8 Bxg6 Bf8 Qee8 Nxc6
>                             <ht>
> 10  46.11 320.85  44792k  Nfxg6+ Nxg6 Nxg6+ Qxg6 Qxg8+ Kxg8 Bxg6 Bf8 Qee8 Nxc6
>                             Bxh7+ Kh8 Qxf8+ Ng8 Qxg8# <ht>



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