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Subject: Re: Shirov's Computer Comments

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 16:21:25 11/15/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 22:53:03, jonathan Baxter wrote:

>On November 11, 1998 at 16:38:14, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On November 11, 1998 at 14:28:13, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On a PII-266: 0:19 for Rxg7 and a mate announce after 0:50 with standard
>>>settings. I assume the 2:34 is in case "combination" is set to "off".
>>>
>>>Analysis...
>>>
>>>1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+ Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
>>>Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg7+ Kh4 10. Kf2 Qc5+ 11. Kg2 Qg1+ 12.
>>>Kxg1 a4 13. Qg5+ Kh3 14. Qg2+ Kh4 15. Qh2#
>>>
>>>Biggest problem for computers the "quiet move" 10. Kf2
>>
>>I'm a little slower.  On a P2/300 mine finds the mate in 15 in 1:07, Rxg7+ found
>>in 0:28.
>>
>
>Just to see how easy the move is to find: I tried setting all eval except
>material to 0 in my program. On a PII400 it finds Rxg7+ in 1:49 and sticks with
>it (took 15 mins to find the mate but I don't have any special mating
>extensions).
>
>Jon

Here are some other results on my Mac 7300/180.

Program           Rxg7+    Forced Mate
====================================
CM4000 Mac        <1 sec   < 2 seconds (M14)
MacChess 5.0b4    <1 sec    55 seconds (M15)
MacChess 4.0      <1 sec    not found in six minutes
HIARCS 6          89 sec    not found in six minutes
Sigma Chess 4.01L  unfound  unfound

Details:

MacChess 5.0b4 finds:
  Rxg7+ in about 1/4 second
  Mate in 15 at 55 seconds.
Mac 7300/180, 16M hash

Log file - note that Kf2 is found.

04/01|00:00:00|        4592|  -89| Qxc6 Rxc6 Kd2 Rcc8
04/32|00:00:00|        8423|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
05/01|00:00:00|       11680|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
06/01|00:00:00|       21936|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
07/01|00:00:01|       51362|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
08/01|00:00:01|      130234|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
09/01|00:00:02|      273769|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
10/01|00:00:04|      583204|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
11/01|00:00:08|     1324177|   +0| Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7 Qe7+
12/01|00:00:55|    10688848|+M15 | Rxg7+ Rxg7 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Kg7
                                   h6+   Kxh6  Qf8+ Kh5  Qf7+ Kh4 Qxh7+ Kg3
                                   Qg6+  Kh3   Kf2  Qc5+ Kf1  Qxc4+ bxc4 Kh4
                                   Qg5+  Kh3  Qg2+  Kh4  Qh2+

MacChess 5.0 should be publicly available by Christmas.


Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)



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