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Subject: Re: Hard ECM position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:25:27 06/21/01

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On June 21, 2001 at 17:07:17, Janos Keinrath wrote:

>
>I've checked the ECM testsuite with my program and found the following,
>interesting position (ECM.300).
>
>[D] 8/2b2k1p/2N2pp1/P2p4/3KnP2/6BP/P5P1/8 w - -
>
>The solution in the book is right:
>
>1. Kxd5! Nxg3 2.a6 Bb6 3.a4 Ne2 4.a5 Bb1 5.a7!! Bxa7
>6. Nxa7 Nxf4+ 7.Kd6! +-
>
>Any program find the solution in a reasonale time (less than 5 Min)?

Yace output:
Crafty is the magic word, Scid wants to see
Yace (Yet another chess engine) version 0.99.50.1

Type help for a (very unhelpful) list of commands
Make sure, you have a file yace.ini in the current directory, with a line:

hash 30M

or similar, otherwise Yace will only use a very small hash of 1M.

feature done=0
DBBOOK100 50000 128 20 ff 139673
entries 87381 size 1048572 size_wanted 1048576 tts3 29126
pos_learn = 1
Stored 0 learned positions into hash table
hash size wanted 300000000
Stored 0 learned positions into hash table
entries 24999999 size 299999988 size_wanted 300000000 tts3 8333332
5-men endgame table bases found
white ( 1): st 999
white ( 1): test ecm300.ci
title "ECM.300"
Stored 0 learned positions into hash table
solution  Kxd5
usetime = 998.00, mintime = 998.00 maxtime = 998.00 tl 998.00 ml 0
         4   0.007  -1.13  1t  1.Kxd5 Nxg3 {-190}
        33   0.012   1.22  1t  1.Be1 {80}
        52   0.018   1.22  1.  1.Be1 {80}
        84   0.024   1.06  2t  1.Be1 f5 {80}
       235   0.030   1.06  2.  1.Be1 f5 {80}
       527   0.035   0.80  3t  1.Be1 Ke6 2.Ke3 {80}
      1062   0.042   0.83  3t+ 1.Bh2 Ke6
      1205   0.047   1.39  3t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.a6 {80}
      1300   0.053   1.39  3.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.a6 {80}
      2212   0.059   1.34  4t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Bxc7 Kxc6 {90}
      3366   0.067   1.34  4.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Bxc7 Kxc6 {90}
      5617   0.094   1.34  5t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Bxc7 Kxc6 {90}
      8416   0.104   1.34  5.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Bxc7 Kxc6 {90}
     16047   0.123   1.24  6t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Bxb8 4.Bxb8 Kc6 5.g4
                               gxf5 6.gxf5 {90}
     25080   0.151   1.24  6.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Bxb8 4.Bxb8 Kc6 5.g4
                               gxf5 6.gxf5 {90}
     44160   0.195   1.24  7t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Bxb8 4.Bxb8 Kc6 5.g4
                               gxf5 6.gxf5H {90}
     72689   0.254   1.24  7.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Bxb8 4.Bxb8 Kc6 5.g4
                               gxf5 6.gxf5 {90}
    142099   0.380   1.57  8t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.Kxd5 Nc3+ 6.Kd4 Nxa2H 7.Na6+H Kd6H {80}
    216544   0.517   1.57  8.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.Kxd5 Nc3+ 6.Kd4 Nxa2 7.Na6+ Kd6 {80}
    612516   1.188   1.64  9t  1.Bh2 Nd2 2.a6 Bb6+ 3.Kxd5 Nf1 4.a7 Bxa7 5.Nxa7
                               Nxh2 6.Nc6 {80}
    830916   1.566   1.64  9.  1.Bh2 Nd2 2.a6 Bb6+ 3.Kxd5 Nf1 4.a7 Bxa7 5.Nxa7
                               Nxh2 6.Nc6 {80}
   1432086   2.553   1.90 10t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.fxg6 hxg6 6.Na6+ Kd6 7.Nb4 f5 8.Nxd5 g5 {160}
   2030855   3.578   1.90 10.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.fxg6 hxg6 6.Na6+ Kd6 7.Nb4 f5 8.Nxd5 g5 {160}
   3355081   5.765   2.08 11t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.fxg6 hxg6 6.Na6+ Kd6 7.Nb4 Nc5 8.Nxd5 Ne6+
                               9.Kc4 {160}
   4682304   7.972   2.08 11.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.fxg6 hxg6 6.Na6+ Kd6 7.Nb4 Nc5 8.Nxd5 Ne6+
                               9.Kc4 {160}
   8440820  14.291   2.27 12t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Bxb8 4.Bxb8 gxf5
                               5.a4H {HT}
  13588958  22.885   2.27 12.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Bxb8 4.Bxb8 gxf5 5.a4
  22305684  37.168   2.29 13t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.Na6+ Kd6 6.Nb4 gxf5 7.Nxd5 Nc5 8.Nxf6 h6
                               9.Kc4 Na6 10.a4 {160}
  33894251  56.043   2.29 13.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.Na6+ Kd6 6.Nb4 gxf5 7.Nxd5 Nc5 8.Nxf6 h6
                               9.Kc4 Na6 10.a4 {160}
  50192907  1:25.6   2.41 14t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ gxf5 3.Bxc7 Kd7 4.Kxd5 Kxc7
                               5.Ne7 Kb7 6.Nxf5 Nc3+ 7.Ke6 Ka6 8.Kxf6 Kxa5
                               9.a3 h5 {160}
  80166094  2:16.8   2.41 14.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ gxf5 3.Bxc7 Kd7 4.Kxd5 Kxc7
                               5.Ne7 Kb7 6.Nxf5 Nc3+ 7.Ke6 Ka6 8.Kxf6 Kxa5
                               9.a3 h5 {160}
 115295837  3:19.6   2.41 15t  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.Na6+ Kd6 6.Nb4 gxf5 7.Nxd5 Nc5 8.Nxf6 h6
                               9.Ne8+ Kc6 10.Ke5 Nb7 11.a6 Nc5H {HT} {160}
 191041508  5:36.5   2.41 15.  1.Bh2 Ke6 2.f5+ Kd7 3.Nb8+ Kd8 4.Bxc7+ Kxc7
                               5.Na6+ Kd6 6.Nb4 gxf5 7.Nxd5 Nc5 8.Nxf6 h6
                               9.Ne8+ Kc6 10.Ke5 Nb7 11.a6 Nc5 {HT} {160}



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