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Subject: Re: Mate easy but challenging...

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 16:08:48 02/17/01

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On February 17, 2001 at 08:10:24, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>If you like to solve the mate that is apperently easy but still contain some
>challenge then try the next one:
>
>[D]R3Nnrk/1Q3bqq/3QnQ1r/1Q4bn/4Q1qN/2Q2nQ1/Q2BB3/1Q1K3R w - -
>
>Please, indicate your result.
>
>I hope that your brute force search will be more successful that mine. Mine went
>this way:
>
>LLchess mate solver. AMD 400Mhz. No hash.
>
>3 moves - 1.4 sec.
>4 moves - 20.7 sec.
>5 moves - 8 min. 23 sec.
>
>My chances to solve by brute force, after those numbers, looke not very bright.
>Even solution by selective took 25 sec. I hope your program will do better.
>
>Initial number of white moves is 152.
>
>Thanks,
>Leonid.

Here's what Crafty did with it.  I've started having Crafty read your positions
from a file now rather than paste them in like I was doing before.

I let Crafty work on this for a while to see if it could come up with anything
better than mate in 8, but it didn't happen.

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.

Crafty v18.3

White(1): epdlrec new.epd 2
White(1): d
White(1): analyze
middle-game phase
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 30.00 (3:30)
         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
                2->   0.77  51.40   1. Qgxg4 Nxf6 2. Qxh7+ N8xh7 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxg4 4. Qxf7
                3     1.00  51.40   1. Qgxg4 Nxf6 2. Qxh7+ N8xh7 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxg4 4. Qxf7
                3->   1.99  51.40   1. Qgxg4 Nxf6 2. Qxh7+ N8xh7 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxg4 4. Qxf7
                4     2.26  51.40   1. Qgxg4 Nxf6 2. Qxh7+ N8xh7 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxg4 4. Qxf7
                4->   4.04  51.40   1. Qgxg4 Nxf6 2. Qxh7+ N8xh7 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxg4 4. Qxf7
                5     4.62  51.40   1. Qgxg4 Nxf6 2. Qxh7+ N8xh7 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxg4 4. Qxf7
                5     4.77     ++   1. Qxh7+!!
                5     5.55  54.40   1. Qxh7+ Rxh7 2. Qxg7+ Nhxg7 3. Qxg4
                                    Nxd2 4. Q1f5
                5->   8.05  54.40   1. Qxh7+ Rxh7 2. Qxg7+ Nhxg7 3. Qxg4
                                    Nxd2 4. Q1f5
                6     9.94     ++   1. Qxh7+!!
                6    11.11  57.40   1. Qxh7+ Rxh7 2. Qfxf7 Ne5 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxf7 4. Nxh5+ Ng7 5. Bxg4 Nxd6 6. Qxd6
                6->  25.35  57.40   1. Qxh7+ Rxh7 2. Qfxf7 Ne5 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxf7 4. Nxh5+ Ng7 5. Bxg4 Nxd6 6. Qxd6
                7    26.07     ++   1. Qxh7+!!
                7    35.20  60.40   1. Qxh7+ Rxh7 2. Qfxf7 Ne5 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxf7 4. Ng6+ Nxg6 5. Rxg8+ Kxg8 6.
                                    Qe8+ Nef8 7. Qexf7+ Kh8 8. Qxg4
                7->  40.17  60.40   1. Qxh7+ Rxh7 2. Qfxf7 Ne5 3. Nxg7
                                    Nxf7 4. Ng6+ Nxg6 5. Rxg8+ Kxg8 6.
                                    Qe8+ Nef8 7. Qexf7+ Kh8 8. Qxg4
                8    43.11     ++   1. Qxh7+!!
                8     2:27  Mat08   1. Qxh7+ Nxh7 2. Qxg7+ Nhxg7 3. Qxf7
                                    Qa4+ 4. Qbxa4 Nfd4 5. Ng6+ Rxg6 6.
                                    Rxh7+ Kxh7 7. Qfxg6+ Kh8 8. Qh7#
                8->   2:51  Mat08   1. Qxh7+ Nxh7 2. Qxg7+ Nhxg7 3. Qxf7
                                    Qa4+ 4. Qbxa4 Nfd4 5. Ng6+ Rxg6 6.
                                    Rxh7+ Kxh7 7. Qfxg6+ Kh8 8. Qh7#
                9     7:39  Mat08   1. Qxh7+ Nxh7 2. Qxg7+ Nhxg7 3. Qxf7
                                    Qa4+ 4. Qbxa4 Nfd4 5. Ng6+ Rxg6 6.
                                    Rxh7+ Kxh7 7. Qfxg6+ Kh8 8. Qh7#
                9->  13:30  Mat08   1. Qxh7+ Nxh7 2. Qxg7+ Nhxg7 3. Qxf7
                                    Qa4+ 4. Qbxa4 Nfd4 5. Ng6+ Rxg6 6.
                                    Rxh7+ Kxh7 7. Qfxg6+ Kh8 8. Qh7#
White(1): exit
White(1): q
execution complete.



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