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Subject: Re: Mate in 16? ..see if your computer will solve it!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:50:59 02/17/01

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On February 16, 2001 at 22:11:42, James T. Walker wrote:

>On February 16, 2001 at 18:01:56, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2001 at 15:35:40, Lin Harper wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   [D]8/8/8/2p5/R1P5/P5p1/P3K1p1/6k1 w
>>>
>>>   Thanks for the help with FEN, guys. Now for the above position.
>>>   It's simple enough.. any club strength player would find the
>>>   right line in a short time. But can your comp find the mate
>>>   sequence?
>>
>>Century 3.1 (beta) 8 seconds, PIII-800
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>-----------
>>
>>Loading...
>>
>>Engine version   : Rebel Century 3.1
>>Hash table size  :  60 Mb
>>
>>8/8/8/2p5/R1P5/P5p1/P3K1p1/6k1 w - -
>>
>>00:00:00  07.00  10.70  1.Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1  [3602]
>>00:00:01  12.00  11.86  1.Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1 5.Rf5 Kh2 6.Rh5
>>Kg1 7.Rxc5 Kf2 8.Rf5  [102493]
>>00:00:02  15.00  12.17  1.Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1 5.Ke3 Kh2 6.Rh7
>>Kg1 7.Rh3 Kf1 8.Rxg3 Kg1 9.Ke4  [219091]
>>00:00:03  16.00  12.74  1.Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1 5.Ke3 Kh2 6.Rh7
>>Kg1 7.Rh3 Kf1 8.Rxg3 g1=Q  [327769]
>>00:00:04  17.00  12.74  1.Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1 5.Ke3 Kh2 6.Rh7
>>Kg1 7.Rh3 Kf1 8.Rxg3 g1=Q  [401648]
>>00:00:06  18.00  17.06  1.Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1 5.a4 Kh2 6.Rh7
>>Kg1 7.a5 Kf2 8.Rf7 Kg1 9.a6 Kh2 10.Rh7 Kg1 11.a7 Kf1 12.a8=Q  [480790]
>>00:00:08  19.00  Mate in 16 moves Ra7 Kh2 2.Rh7 Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7 Kg1 5.a4 Kh2
>>6.Rh7 Kg1 7.a5 Kf2 8.Rf7 Kg1 9.a6 Kh2 10.Rh7 Kg1 11.a7 Kf1 12.Rf7 Kg1  [393665]
>
>
>I'm curious as to why Rebel Century 3.0 reaches 18:00 ply in 2 seconds on my
>Athlon 900 but takes 3:03 to go 19 ply and find the mate in 16 ??
>Jim

I made some improvements in 3.1 (I hope) as I found that in certain cases
pruning was too aggressive in 3.0 which in this case could be the difference.
I am not satisfied with 3.1 (beta) yet as the total result doesn't seem to
indicate an improvement above 3.0. So back to work...

Ed




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