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Subject: Re: One easy mate to solve. Some bug somewhere?

Author: leonid

Date: 13:24:20 08/18/01

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On August 18, 2001 at 14:00:27, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On August 18, 2001 at 13:32:28, leonid wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?183489
>>>>>>>[D]B2B1qr1/N2Qb2q/Q2Rq3/Q2Q1q2/Q2Q2q1/Q2Q3n/R2Qq2k/1KN2rq1 w - -
>>
>>
>>Is there somewhere bug in my program? This is what I ask me after finding mate
>>during the night for above position. Mate found in 9 moves: D4-G1.
>>
>>Reason for doubt is the fact that when I tried to confirme the mate by executing
>>the white move and seeing the black responses (they are four), it was not easy.
>>After three black responses by  king, knight and queen, white found quickly mate
>>in 8. When I executed last black move by rook, after waiting for good 2 hours
>>response was still not there. It could be that during my last two "improvement"
>>some bug went into the code. Please, verify if found white move really lead to
>>mate in 9.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Leonid.
>
>Hello Leonid,
>D4-G1 is ok, according to Chest.  See my response:
>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?184076


Hello, Heiner!

Thanks for your response. I was already really worried and was almost sure that
some bug is in the code. Now I see that explosion in the branching factor comes
after position created by white move D4-G2 and black response F1-G1. When I
looked white  side branching factor, that started with innocent 5.8 between
four and fifth move, between 7 and 8 it exploded. Move 7 took 5 min and 25 sec,
but for eight move went for more that two hours without any response. This is
where I expected that I have some bug. Branching factor was already more that
20.

Finding mate in 9 (first mate) took 6 hours 5 min and 10 sec.

Really rare and interesting position between many others that I can remember.
Too dramatic in its branching factor change. I not expected this.

Cheers,
Leonid.

>Cheers,
>Heiner



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