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Subject: Re: Two mate positions to solve.

Author: leonid

Date: 16:42:33 09/03/00

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On September 03, 2000 at 15:50:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 02, 2000 at 17:08:20, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>Please solve these two positions and say minimum number of moves that lead to
>>it.
>>
>> 1r2k2r/1b3pbp/1NPqN1n1/1P1Q4/1P2P3/P3B3/5PP1/R3KB1R White to go.
>
>Qxd6 mate in 6
>>
>> 6KQ/3B2Q1/QQQQQQQ1/5Nbn/qqqqq1q1/5qqk/8/8 White to go.
>
>Qgxh5+ mate in 8.
>>
>>It will be good if you will indicate all main parameters of your trial. At
>>least, I see them this way:
>>
>>Name of your program. Hash table size.
>
>Junior5.9(64 mbytes)
>>In what way (if you know) position was solved. Selective search or brute force
>>search.
>
>Selective search(Junior like other top program does not do brute force search.
>>Time for each way of search.
>
>7 seconds for the first position.
>55 seconds for the second position.
>>CPU and its speed.
>
>P200MMX
>
>
>Uri

Excellent! Now I know even lesser number of moves that lead to mate in second
position. The first I knew that it was in 6 moves since it was so close. Will
see later if 8 moves for the last position are the short one. But even 8 moves
verification for so heavy position could take some time.

Leonid.



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