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Subject: Re: what do you think of the position?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 13:00:40 03/11/00

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On March 11, 2000 at 15:47:53, William Bryant wrote:

>On March 11, 2000 at 12:33:40, pavel wrote:
>
>>hi,
>> this is the first time i am ever trying a diagram in this forum,
>>if it doesnt work i am sorry for any inconvenience. and if it doest work, then
>>thanks to dann corbit for referring to EPDdiag, in one of his post.
>>the game below is from one of the many games that i played in chess server
>>(chess.net) and one of my fav too. i would like to know how fast your program
>>finds the mate???
>>
>>white- "bigbadjohn"
>>Black- "gnu"
>>white elo- "1659"
>>blacks elo- "1473"
>>time control- "900+0"
>>
>>[D]3qlrkl/lR5p/RlQ3pl/3pp3/2pb4/5PlP/4rlPl/7K w - -
>>
>>the original moves were after this position of the game
>>
>>38)     Re1+
>>39)Kh2  Bg1+
>>40)Kg3  Qg5#
>>
>>i personally found the mate very interesting, what do you think?
>>i played under the handle "gnu"
>>thanks for any comments and feedbacks
>>and by the way "comet doesnt finds the mate"
>>and all other programs that i have finds the mate less then 1 min.
>>junior6 finds it in 23sec!!!!
>>thanks
>>pavel
>
>I think this is a great position because it is a case where one of the
>real amatures gets lucky.
>
>Screamer solves this in 1.992 seconds announcing mate in 8 moves.
>
>Welcome to Screamer 1.00  Build 49
>Current Hash Table Size: 8192 K bytes
>Current Pawn Hash Size: 2048 K bytes
>Debug Control On
>PVS Search
>NULL move Search
>
>
>New Game ...
>Move 1 W>>
>
>New Board Position
>3q1rk1/1R5p/R1Q3p1/3pp3/2pb4/5P1P/4r1P1/7K w - - 0 0
>Move 1 W>>
>PLY       NODES     TIME    SCORE  PV
>__________________________________________________
> 5/00     19107     0.373   +0.00  Qxg6+ hxg6 Rxg6+ Kh8 Rh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
> 6/00     40849     0.727   +0.00  Qxg6+ hxg6 Rxg6+ Kh8 Rh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
> 6/01     58955     1.018   +0.18  Qe6+ Kh8 Rxh7+ Kxh7 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
>							Kf7 Qg7+ Ke8 Re6+ Qe7 Rxe7
> 7/00     86249     1.435      ++  Qe6+
> 7/00    125590     1.992 +327.52  Qe6+ Kh8 Rxh7+ Kxh7 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
>							Kf7 Qg7+ Ke8 Re6+ Qe7 Qxe7++
> 8/00    324510     5.301 +327.52  Qe6+ Kh8 Rxh7+ Kxh7 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
>							Kf7 Qg7+ Ke8 Re6+ Qe7 Qxe7++
>     ----- Search Stopped -----
> 8/00    779655    12.562 +327.52  Qe6+ Kh8 Rxh7+ Kxh7 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
>							Kf7 Qg7+ Ke8 Re6+ Qe7 Qxe7++
>     Total Search Time: 12seconds
>     Move: Qe6+
>
>
>William
>wbryant@ix.netcom.com


That's interesting... I think everyone else played this position with black to
move. :) With white on move, Insomniac 0.63 announces mate in 8 after 1 second
on my P233, 4MB hash.

James

 1     -606        0          66 Kh2
 2>    -599        0         231 Qe6+ Kh8 Kh2
 2     -599        0         346 Qe6+ Kh8 Kh2
 3>    -602       50        1813 Rd7 Re1+ Kh2 Bg1+ Kh1
 3     -602       50        2033 Rd7 Re1+ Kh2 Bg1+ Kh1
 4>    -595       50        5330 Qe6+ Kh8 Rd7 Re1+ Kh2 Bg1+ Kh1
 4>    -572      110        5881 Qxg6+
 4        0      110        6039 Qxg6+ hxg6 Rxg6+ Kh8 Rh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
 5        0      110        6567 Qxg6+ hxg6 Rxg6+ Kh8 Rh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
 6        0      160       11017 Qxg6+ hxg6 Rxg6+ Kh8 Rh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
 7        0      330       26740 Qxg6+ hxg6 Rxg6+ Kh8 Rh6+ Kg8 Rg6+
 8>      30      440       38555 Qe6+
 8      169      660       62160 Qe6+ Kh8 Rxh7+ Kxh7 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rg6+ Kf7
 Rg7+ Ke8 Qe6+ Qe7 Rxe7+
 9    29985     1040       92599 Qe6+ Kh8 Rxh7+ Kxh7 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rg6+ Kf7
 Rg7+ Ke8 Qc6+ Qd7 Qxd7+




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