Author: Tim Foden
Date: 14:23:32 08/10/00
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On August 10, 2000 at 16:17:47, Christoph Fieberg wrote: >Unbelievable, but true: >I composed a position which is mate in 1 and can easily found, but Fritz6 on >Pentium III, 500 Mhz and 32 MB Hash needs more than 1 hour to show it (excatly >1:03:17)!!! >How do other computers react? > >The position is >FEN: [D]8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1 Green Light takes just over 29 seconds on my K6/2 333Mhz: ------------------ fen 8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1 Game finished test: 0 time limit 178.00 Game stage: Opening Current eval: -0.21 Ply CE Time Nodes Principal variation 1 ++ 23 18913 Nxc6 (a=-0.71 b=0.29 e=0.29) 1 35 107 94418 Nxc6 1 245 221 194150 Nxc4 1 431 249 225981 Nxd4 1 488 250 227290 Rxd4 1 521 1771 1641120 fxe4 1 719 2891 2779247 dxe4 1 32099 2907 2795807 Qh1# 1 32099 2908 2795811 Qh1# Max eval diff 1 2.39, 2 0.98 local: t=29.08 nps=96135.4 n=2795811 (f=3 q=2795808) total: t=7:30 nps=110487.0 n=49749871 extensions: check=2 recapture=0 pawn push=0 1-reply=0 q-moves: generated=9774356 considered=5271969 made/unmade=2795759 !Qa1-h1 32099 move Qa1-h1 -------------------- The major reason for the time usage is the quiescence search, which it the bit that searches until all potential capture gains have been found. If you look carfully... GLC has only searched full alpha-beta 3 nodes!! But it searched 2,795,808 quiecence nodes. Cheers, Tim.
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