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Subject: Re: Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!

Author: Angrim

Date: 21:57:46 08/11/00

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On August 11, 2000 at 20:30:53, Christophe Theron wrote:

>But your position is an easy one. Try this one with your favorite chess programs
>and tell me what happens:
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>[D]8/PPPPPpPk/3rq3/1b1r2b1/2BR1B2/3RQ3/pppppPpK/8 w
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>I confess that mine gets nuts on this one.
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>
>    Christophe

tried this with my new program, which does not extend on converting moves,
only on checks.

First it checks each move with pn-search for easy mates, and finds that
e3e5, f4g3, d4xd5, h2g1, and h2g3 all lose simply.

Then the regular search takes 6 seconds to finish a 2 ply deep search,
and favors Qxe6 with pv:
 e3xe6 g5xf4 d4xf4 f7xe6<q d3xd5<q d6xd5<q c4xd5<q e6xd5<q h2xg2<q h7xg7<q
<q means the move was in the qsearch.
after another 3 seconds it finished searching 3 ply deep and favored
g8=Q with a huge score. This move remained the favorite for the next
4 ply until I got bored and stopped it after ply 7 and 630 seconds.
pv at ply 7 was g7g8q h7xg8 e7e8q g8g7 f4e5 d5xe5 e3xe5 e6xe5 e8xe5 g5f6 etc

Angrim



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