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Subject: Re: One mate to solve... for Champions

Author: leonid

Date: 13:57:58 06/07/01

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On June 07, 2001 at 12:24:14, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On June 04, 2001 at 21:30:34, leonid wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2001 at 17:47:05, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On June 04, 2001 at 11:10:30, leonid wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 02, 2001 at 23:54:08, leonid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>If you would like to solve some easy mate then try this:
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]qqnqBB2/rqqNQQ2/kqQQQRnK/rqqNQR2/bbqQQQ2/8/8/8 w - -
>>>
>>>Hello Loenid,
>>>
>>>First it is "easy", then it is for champions... and after nearly 30 hours
>>>my K7/600 has not even finished depth 8!  Geez!  What exactly is easy about
>>>this one?  Chest obviously does not get it.
>>
>>Sorry, Heiner! It was my mistake. When I realized it, I put: "For Champions!".
>>
>>You are almost at the end of solving it. By selective it was solved in 9 moves
>>in only 3 sec. My brute force was not very lucky but I expected that it is just
>>my bad lack. Already 6 moves (brute forcce) took 1 hour and 19 min.
>
>Well, I can offer the following: there is no mate in 8.  I.e. your solution
>in 9 moves is the shortest possible.  For this Chest on a K7/600 with
>meager 30 MB hash needed 39.3 hours.  Phew.
>
>It is a near miss.  From the refutation table I see that several white moves
>had several failed refutation attempts.  The effective branching factor also
>is not as small as usual:
>
>depth  seconds
>#  3      0.07  0.99         61-         0
>#  4      1.52  1.26       2736-         0
>#  5     22.81  1.76      50574-         0
>#  6    313.59  2.30     785471-     82685
>#  7   5894.43  2.19   16536107-  15749676
>#  8 141517.29  1.82  427443358- 426656927
>
>Cheers,
>Heiner

Thanks for data! Very appreciated.

Cheers,
Leonid.



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