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Subject: Re: Good Test Position, the "ply 16 rook sac"

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:31:25 09/20/00

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On September 20, 2000 at 14:12:25, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 20, 2000 at 13:18:20, James wrote:
>
>>This position turns out to be an excellent comparitor ofd chessmaster versions.
>>My puter is 733 Piii, not overclocked with 512 meg of ram. Tested cm55 and cm6k
>>using cm default but with select 10, and ttables set to 30. results:
>>cm55 found mate in 14 at 33 min 45 seconds < about 20 sec into ply 13> and at 20
>>seconds into ply 13, cm6k still found m n 16 at 58 minutes and 45 seconds.
>>  My play formula on cm55 found it in 31 min and 30 seconds. Am sure other
>>programs could see it faster, if anyone does any comparitive tests on their
>>system, would be interested in the results.  IF cm8000 is as efficient as cm55,
>>and has 12 ply selectivity, it could maybe see it in 10 minutes or so i think.
>>  This position seems to be another that begs the question : what is a ply : ?
>
>What is the position? I can test it on a Beta build of CM8000....
>
>jm

[D]2r3kr/5pp1/7p/3PQRb1/ppq1B3/8/PPP3PP/1K1R4 w

chessmaster6000(ss=10) found mate in 20 at depth 2/12,mate in 14 at depth 5/15
and mate in 13 at depth 6/16

Uri



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