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Subject: Re: How long does it take your program to find this simple mate in 4?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:17:08 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 22:13:58, Peter W. Gillgasch wrote:

>On February 08, 2000 at 20:11:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>2bnN1k1/6P1/4p3/1P2N1P1/3K4/8/8/8 w - -
>
>Including producing a full blown log file with an awful lot of
>statistics it took 2 seconds on my 60 mhz PowerPC601 machine.
>Iteration 7, 43914 nodes, minimal hashtable (128 K entries).
>This time includes clearing the hash table.
>
>Without the hash table it took 3 seconds, iteration 7, 77162
>nodes. I believe that things like these can be solved easily
>much faster with better selectivity.
>
>Is there anything special about that problem ?

Nothing that I can see.  Crafty finds the right move in less than two seconds,
but fails to see the mate for 6 minutes.  Looks like a bug or ???



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