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Subject: Re: If you like to find a mate... (corrected followup)

Author: Paul

Date: 12:47:55 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 15:32:49, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>Now, with the correct side to move, Chest has still found "no mate in 9".
>But the timing indicate an unusually large branching factor:
>#  1      0.00  0.87          1-         0
>#  2      0.01  1.00          1-         0
>#  3      0.02  0.96         89-         0
>#  4      0.06  1.09        437-         0
>#  5      0.27  1.30       1693-         0
>#  6      2.04  1.38       6662-         0
>#  7     31.09  1.49      63238-         0
>#  8    824.56  1.75    1256916-         3
>#  9  24061.56  2.19   37677207-  28929306
>(depth, seconds, speed, nodes in-out)  on a K7/600 (350 MB TT)
>
>That are already 6.7 hours.  I'm not sure I will wait until the mate in 10
>arrives.  We can expect over 8 days from the above data.  The last two
>lines have indicate an effective branching factor of 29.2.
>Although this is a bit better than Leonid's factor 60, it is still quite
>a bit too heavy.

Wow!! Already expected something like this to happen ... This is where
an Athon 1200 really would help ... then it would only take 4 days ;)




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