Author: Duncan Roberts
Date: 14:35:44 01/10/05
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On January 10, 2005 at 17:29:12, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >On January 10, 2005 at 15:25:16, Uri Blass wrote: > >>It may be interesting to know how many plies does only material search need to >>find the following mates >> >>mate in 6 >>[D]4k3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1 >> >>mate in 7 >> >>[D]4k3/p7/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1 > >I run a quick test with Kiwi and it found a mate in 14 for pos #1 in 11 plies >and a mate in 13 for pos #2 in 12 plies. Running the standard evaluation took >the same number of plies but found mate in 11 and mate in 10 using about 30% >less nodes. is your material only search version publicly available on your site. does it use mtd(f) and how does it compare in speed to andrew williams program. duncan
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