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Subject: Re: If you like to solve easy mate...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 07:45:07 02/08/01

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On February 08, 2001 at 10:09:29, leonid wrote:

>On February 08, 2001 at 09:49:16, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On February 08, 2001 at 08:21:44, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>If you like to solve easy (not deep) forced mate position, here is the one.
>>>
>>>[D]Nb1rkrNb/1n1pqp1b/n2qqq1n/1NNNNNNn/2BNNB2/1R2Q1R1/8/2K5 w - -
>>>
>>>Please, indicate your result.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>Crafty found the mate in 8 a little bit earlier but it had it's hashtables all
>>filled up, and I can't operate it at up to 96mb hashtables on my computer, so
>>I'm stuck with 48 at the moment.  I never get around to mentioning, it's a
>>700mhz Celeron.
>>
>>Pete
>>
>>5 piece tablebase files found
>>1836kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
>>EGTB cache memory = 3M bytes.
>>hash table memory = 48M bytes.
>>pawn hash table memory = 5M bytes.
>
>Simply can't detain my curiosity, what is the "pawn hash table"? Special hash
>table just for pawns?

Yes, for that part of the eval which is based only on the location of
all the pawns (pawn structure).


>Thanks for detailed decription! Sometime, some very interesting moments come to
>light.
>
>My program found at the same depth mate but I not looked by brute force. It
>could be that somebody will come with shorter mate.
>
>Leonid.

I doubt it.  Chest says "no mate in 7" after 68.4 minutes.
You all found the shortest mate:  Congratulations!

Heiner



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