Author: Paul
Date: 13:43:23 04/14/01
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On April 14, 2001 at 16:10:03, leonid wrote: >On April 14, 2001 at 11:25:53, Paul wrote: > >>Will try some different extensions later ... > >I hope so. I know that this position look like very deep. Mine found mate in 13 >but I was not able to solve it by brute force in order to know shortest mate. In >9 moves there is no mate for sure. I went even to search for 10 moves, since >branching factor happened to be good for brute force. But when 10 moves took >more then 1 hour, I left search. I needed computer. Also I saw that branching >factor became bad for 10 moves. Expected time for 10 moves was 45 minutes. I >waited already for 1 hour. Maybe somebody with better selective search, or >better branching factor, for brute force, will reach mate below 13. I am curious >to know what is shortest mate here. Well, I tried some different things, but didn't find anything shorter. I don't have much time now, coz I'm in the middle of yet another windows reinstall. :) Ciao! Paul
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