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

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 14:50:18 03/11/01

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On March 11, 2001 at 16:47:14, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>If you like to solve one mate then try this:
>
>[D]1nrkrnR1/Pbqnq2Q/nnQb1nnN/B1nNQ3/6Q1/7B/3R4/1K3Q2 w - -
>
>Please, indicate your result.
>
>Probably you will find that this position is very easely solvable by selective
>search but brute force search could be slow. My program took already 1 minute to
>see only 4 moves deep.

Hi Leonid,

Green Light Chess 2.13 sees a mate in 6 after almost 52 seconds.  It sees a
couple of longer mates a lot earlier than this though.

Cheers, Tim.

Analysis, GLC 2.13, Duron 920MHz, 48MB hash:

 Game stage: Opening
 Current eval: 12.29
 Ply  Time  Score   Nodes  Principal Variation
  2   0.03     --   11565  axb8=Q  (a=16.12 b=17.12 e=16.12)
  2   0.03  12.73   11738  axb8=Q Ndxe5
  2   0.06  14.84   17505  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxc7+ Nxc7
  2   0.06  14.84   20500  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxc7+ Nxc7
  3   0.11  14.84   33886  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxc7+ Nxc7 axb8=Q
  3   0.40  14.84  145913  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxc7+ Nxc7 axb8=Q
  4   0.54  14.84  235962  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxc7+ Nxc7 axb8=Q
                             Bxc6
  4   1.47  14.84  688186  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxc7+ Nxc7 axb8=Q
                             Bxc6
  5   1.62     ++  775518  Qexe7+  (a=14.34 b=15.34 e=15.34)
  5   2.02  21.62 1067523  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxf6+ Bxf6 Nd6+ Qxd6
                             Qxg6+ Kd8 Bxb6+ Nc7 Qxd6
  5   4.17  21.62 2511514  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxf6+ Bxf6 Nd6+ Qxd6
                             Qxg6+ Kd8 Bxb6+ Nc7 Qxd6
  6   4.21     ++ 2532468  Qexe7+  (a=21.12 b=22.12 e=22.12)
  6   5.02 320.85 3345261  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxf6+ Kxf7 Qfc4+
                             Nxc4 Qxc4+ Nce6 Q4xe6+ Nxe6 Qxe6# <ht>
  6  10.58 320.85 8569308  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7+ Bxe7 Nf7+ Ke8 Nxf6+ Kxf7 Qfc4+
                             Nxc4 Qxc4+ Nce6 Q4xe6+ Nxe6 Qxe6# <ht>
  7  23.60 320.87  22058k  Qexe7+ Rxe7 Qgxg6 Qxc6 Rxf8+ Nxf8 Nf7+ Rxf7 Qfxf6+
                             Be7 Qxe7+ Rxe7 Qxe7# <ht>
  7  51.64 320.89  50116k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8#
  7  52.50 320.89  50952k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8#
  8  53.58 320.89  51871k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8#
  8   1:08 320.89  67671k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8#
  9   1:11 320.89  69836k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
  9   1:46 320.89 106483k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
 10   1:51 320.89 111023k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
 10   3:03 320.89 186526k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
 11   3:09 320.89 192691k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
 11   5:24 320.89 333867k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
 12   5:43 320.89 351228k  Qfxf6 Ngxe5 Rxf8 Nbxc6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Qh5+ Kd8 Qg8+ Nf8
                             Qgxf8# <ht>
 12   9:01  16/107         Qxc7+  >exit
 local:  t=9:07  nps=1035781.7  n=566942340  (f=149619862  q=417322478)
 total:  t=9:07  nps=1035781.7  n=566942340  draws=40259
 trans:  probes=55260826  hits=8446959 (15.29%)  draft=5114077 (9.25%)
 tcuts:  exact=232 (0.00%)  upper=1257871 (2.28%)  lower=3812673 (6.90%)
 tstor:  exact=422 (0.00%)  upper=10632495 (59.68%)  lower=7184056 (40.32%)
 ext:  check=43140568  recap=1653924  ppush=0  1rep=886378  thrt=0
 q-moves:  gen=3614191  tested=539649  made/un=223170  max-dep=12
 max eval diff:  part-1=1.74  part-2=1.50




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