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Subject: Re: One mate to solve for Champion!

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 13:55:53 06/17/01

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On June 17, 2001 at 15:38:50, Angrim wrote:

>On June 16, 2001 at 08:30:19, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I am not sure how deep this position is but it look like that only strong
>>program will find it easy.
>>
>>[D]3K4/1Q1Q1Q2/Q1R1R1Q1/2N1N3/Q1qBNqQ1/q1qBRq1q/brnq1nrb/3kq3 w - -
>>
>>Please indicate your result.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>This sure has a lot of transpositions possible!
>I just added support for transpositions to my pn^2 code, and with the
>new code my chess position solver handled this nice and fast, but the
>old version took longer than I have patience for.
>
>new version:
>proved that move e4xc3 wins, 13 turns
>PN2:12688384 evals, 286977 expands, 79.30 seconds
>
>I halted the old version after 190m evals, 1363 seconds.

Wow!  How interesting!

From the thesis of Dennis Breuker I expect that adding transposition
tables to PN^2 is not exactly trivial.
Reading his thesis I have had several difficulties (some things look
like plain wrong to me, but that can't be, so I just do not understand),
and I would like to look at some working code, or see some pseudocode
from someone with practical experience.

So let me ask: what is the status of your code?  May we look at it?

Anyhow, thanks for sharing your results!
Heiner



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