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Subject: Re: Mate in 13 Position in CSS 01/01 - Chessmaster 6555 in 2:41 min

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 12:56:25 02/19/01

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On February 19, 2001 at 13:49:37, leonid wrote:

>On February 19, 2001 at 13:43:43, Andreas St. wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2001 at 13:36:59, Andreas St. wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>German Magazine "CSS" 01/01: Position from Gerhard Josten:
>>>
>>>white: Kb5;;Qa1,b3,d6,g7;;Ra3,d3;;Nb1,e3;;Pd2
>>>black: Ke4;;Qb8;;Rf5,g8;;Bb2,b7;;Na2,b4,c2;;Pc5,c7,d4,e5,f4,f6,h4
>>>
>>>Mate in 13: 1.Kc4
>>>
>>>Chessmaster 6555 sees mate in 13 (says 12) in 2:41 min on Athlon 650 - 128 MB
>>>hashtables.
>>>
>>>Which programme is faster?
>>>
>>>Greets
>>>
>>>AS
>>
>[D]1q4r1/1bp2pQ1/3Q4/1Kp1pr2/1n1pkp1p/RQ1RN3/nbnP4/QN6 w - - 0 1

Uh, that is an ugly one for Chest.  For "no mate in 9" it needs already
32 minutes (K6-3/400, 60MB hash).  Its heuristic for choosing defender
moves seems to be fooled quite often, which is surprising for me.
This heuristic normally is quite successful.

Chest gives up :-(

Heiner



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