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

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 10:11:53 02/12/01

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On February 12, 2001 at 07:29:02, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>If you like to solve a mate, try this position:
>
>[D]rQ1Q1rnk/q4qbp/3nQqbB/q1Q1NnNn/5QQ1/b2Q4/1QB3Q1/1K1R3R w - -
>
>Please, indicate your result.
>
>In dispite that this position is not that deep and difficult, if your program
>don't know how to deel with white crowd it could be in serious trouble. My was
>deadly slow in searching for mate even by selective search. Reason - white have
>142 initial moves and goes beyond 150 during the search for mate. Good challenge
>for every chess program!
>
>Thanks for responding,
>Leonid.

Hmmm, not deep?  Not difficult?  "There is no mate in 6" by Chest burns
nearly 18 minutes on a K6-3/400 with 50MB hash.  I have started depth=7,
but I expect at least 3 hours to complete it, and may be more.
At least I can confirm the 142 initial legal moves.

Heiner



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