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Subject: Re: One mate to solve...

Author: leonid

Date: 04:12:14 07/06/01

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On July 05, 2001 at 10:03:11, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On July 03, 2001 at 09:13:39, leonid wrote:
>
>>On July 03, 2001 at 05:47:02, Angrim wrote:
>>
>>>On July 02, 2001 at 15:10:18, leonid wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>>
>>>>This mate could be fun to resolve:
>>>>
>>>>[D]R1N1N2k/2qqqqbb/1nQ2q1r/2Q2qQ1/1nQ2q2/1QQQQq1r/1BB5/K5QR w - -
>>>>
>>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Leonid.
>>>proved that move g5xg7 wins, 11 turns
>>>PN2:2020634 evals, 39222 expands, 13.15 seconds
>>
>>
>>Excellent time! Only what is "one turn"? One move?
>>
>>I do ask this because my program found that mate existe between 12 and 9 moves.
>>First 8 moves my program looked by brute force. Mate was found in 12 by
>>selective. If your result signify that mate was found in 11 moves then  shortest
>>mate is between 9 and 11 moves.
>>
>>Leonid.
>
>Chest says "No solution in 9 moves", using 69.4 minutes on a K7/600 with
>350 MB hash.  I have started depth 10, but it will need 10 hours or more.
>
>Heiner

Good no know! I see that on this position my branching factor started at decent
5.9 between 4 and 5 moves (I speak about brute force) and ended 16.19 between 7
and  8 moves. This is where hash should make nice difference.

My 8 moves brute force was already 1 hour and 39 min.

Cheers,
Leonid.



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