Author: Brian Katz
Date: 15:00:04 12/27/03
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On December 27, 2003 at 17:53:01, Brian Katz wrote: >On December 27, 2003 at 17:45:25, Brian Katz wrote: > >>On December 27, 2003 at 08:10:23, Ingo Bauer wrote: >> >>>Hallo >>> >>>[D]5rk1/p4p1p/6b1/q7/6P1/1P6/Q4p1P/K1R5 b - - >>> >>>This nice position was reached by YACE against The Baron on ICC. It seems that >>>some engines have a problem to find a mate, not to speak of a mate in 8! >>> >>> >>>Engine: ChestUCI Ver.2.8 >>>by HM / FH >>>CPU: AthlonXP2200+ >>>FEN: 5rk1/p4p1p/6b1/q7/6P1/1P6/Q4p1P/K1R5 b - - >>>Suche nach Matt in 12 ... (Hash=512MB) >>>8.38 5:21 +M8 33...Qe1 335.3 >>>Matt in 8 gefunden ! (1 Lösung in 05:44) >>>8/08 5:44 +M8 33...Qe1 34.Kb2 Qxc1+ 35.Kxc1 f1Q+ 36.Kb2 Rc8 37.Qa1 Qf6+ 38.Ka2 >>>Qa6+ 39.Kb2 Rc2+ 40.Kb1 Qf1+ 330.5 >>>best move: Qa5-e1 time: 5:44.282 min n/s: 330.550 nodes: 113.729.719 >>> >>> >>>[Event "ICC 15 10"] >>>[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >>>[Date "2003.12.27"] >>>[Round "-"] >>>[White "thebaron"] >>>[Black "Sukkubus"] >>>[WhiteElo "2374"] >>>[BlackElo "2478"] >>>[ECO "D45"] >>>[Result "0-1"] >>> >>>1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nc3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 >>>Bd6 7. Bd2 O-O 8. O-O-O Qe7 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 >>>11. Qxe4 e5 12. Bg5 Nf6 13. Qh4 e4 14. Nd2 Bf5 15. g4 Bg6 >>>16. Be2 c5 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Nb3 cxd4 19. Nxd4 Be5 20. Nb3 >>>b5 21. Nd4 bxc4 22. Nc6 Bxb2+ 23. Kxb2 Qb7+ 24. Ka1 c3 >>>25. Rb1 Qxc6 26. Rhc1 e3 27. Bb5 Qd5 28. Rb3 Rab8 29. Qxf6 >>>Rxb5 30. Qxc3 exf2 31. Qb2 Rxb3 32. axb3 Qa5+ 33. Qa2 Qe1 >>>{White forfeits on time} 0-1 >>> >>>I do not know why The Baron lost on time. >>> >>>Ingo >> >>Ruffian 1.0.1 found mate in 8 in only 49 seconds! It found mate in 9 in only 8 >>seconds. When the mate announcement is made it doesn't seem to be counting the >>first move. The program is showing mate in #7 but it is really showing 8 moves >>for Black. The same for the mate in #9...It was showing mate in 8 but really >>showing 9 moves for Black. >>What I found particularly interesting was the fact that Fritz 8 could not find >>it after approx. 5 minutes (I will let Fritz 8 spend more time on it, as well as >>other engines.) >>This only goes to show just how strong this Ruffian Engine is. I do not have >>Ruffian 2.0, but now I am seriously thinking of getting it. Ruffian runs a lot >>faster than Fritz 8. The kN/s were reading in the 1500's as opposed to Fritz 8 >>in the 1100's. >>Fritz 8 finds mate in 12 almost immediately. Then it finds mate in 11 fairly >>soon, and then goes back to mate in 12. >>Time to test other engines. >>By the way I am running an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1 Gig DDR SDRAM Hashtables set at >>512 MB. I had it at 768, but Ruffian cannot use Hashtables at such a high >>setting. >>Brian > >In the regular play mode, Ruffian 1.0.1 finds mate in 8 in only 30 seconds. Same >hardware and settings as above. kN/s reading in the 1700's!! >Brian Even better, Ruffian 1.0.1 finds the mate in 8 in only 7 seconds in the Deep Position Analysis mode Depth set at 25. Brian
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