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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 06:23:33 08/08/01

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On August 08, 2001 at 08:56:52, leonid wrote:

>On August 07, 2001 at 13:33:24, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>>On August 04, 2001 at 15:56:13, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>On August 04, 2001 at 15:13:24, Angrim wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 04, 2001 at 09:01:36, leonid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>Are you ready for solving some mate? Here is one:
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]q1qk1q1q/q1qrrq1q/1bQq1Qb1/1Q1QQ1Q1/BNn2nNB/1Q4Q1/3Q4/R2K3R w - -
>>>>>
>>>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>Leonid.
>>>>
>>>>proved that move f6xe7 wins, 12 turns
>>>>PN2:4523172 evals, 98612 expands, 30.16 seconds
>>>
>>>This time we found mate by selective at the same depth but your probably is more
>>>quick.
>>>
>>>12 moves selective in 105 sec. Celeron 600. No hash.
>>>
>>>By brute force I stopped searching before 8 moves. 7 moves took 18 min and 57
>>>sec.
>>
>>Hello Leonid, hello Angrim!
>>
>>Unfortunately, Chest is not much faster: "no mate in 8" after 38.1 minutes
>>on a K7/600 with 350 MB hash.  The effective branching factor is beetween
>>8 and 10, so more depth would cost a lot of time.  And depth 12 is not
>>reachable for Chest, here.  Sorry.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Heiner
>
>Hi, Heiner!
>
>Thanks for 8 moves!
>
>My branching factor was 9.37, 9.96 and 11.67 between 4 moves and 7, that I look
>by brute force. Your branching is lose to mine or better.

Corresponding values for Chest:  11.69, 8.44 and 9.87.  About equal.

>My  time was, starting with  4 moves: 1.043 sec, 9.78 sec, 97 sec, 18 min 57
>sec.

Corresponding values for Chest:  0.29s, 3.39s, 28.61s, 282.51s (4 min 42 sec)

Interestingly, the mate in 4 is already faster for Chest, while more depth
does not change much, in this case.

Cheers,
Heiner



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