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Subject: Re: One mate to solve...

Author: Paul Byrne

Date: 00:17:49 07/02/01

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On July 01, 2001 at 00:25:52, Angrim wrote:

>On June 30, 2001 at 06:47:19, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>If you are in mood to solve some mate position, look into this:
>>
>>[D]Q2nkn1q/1Q1rr1q1/2QQqq2/b2Qq2b/2NqQN2/2q2Q2/1q1BB1Q1/q2RKR1Q w - -
>>
>>Please indicate your result.
>>
>>Try to indicate all basic parameters about your hardware and name your program.
>>If your program have some Web Site, please say its address. If something new was
>>done in order to speed your mate solving brain, feel you free to describe your
>>improvement. At least one person will read it with big interest for sure.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>Hey, looks like I got the first reply this time :)
>hardware: Athlon 650mhz
>heuristic: PN^2 with transpositions
>
>proved that move f3xh5 wins, 12 turns
>PN2:17137399 evals, 368084 expands, 148.10 seconds
>
>Angrim

G2K's PN search says:
: i=203538 n=6559485 p=0 d=1000000000 t=97.170
: Qfxh5 wins!

Which, if you do the math, shows how horribly inefficient G2K is  :)
About 67K nps on a 1.2 GHz athlon...

G2K's PN2 search takes 198.28 seconds and 13965004 nodes to see it.

-paul



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