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Subject: Re: Turbo King 11 NEVER took any time over ANY mate in one or two.

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 17:08:06 09/27/01

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On September 27, 2001 at 18:03:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 27, 2001 at 17:45:03, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On September 27, 2001 at 15:53:35, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On September 27, 2001 at 15:23:07, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 27, 2001 at 14:52:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 27, 2001 at 14:14:07, K. Burcham wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>takes shredder5 51 seconds to decide on Qh1. 1500 mhz   amd
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Engine: Shredder 5
>>>>>>by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  1.00	 0:27 	+9.84 	1.dxe4 Rxd5 2.Rxg4 Bxc3 (5.687.141) 205.4
>>>>>>  1.00	 0:51 	  +M1++ 	1.Qh1+ (10.192.541) 199.6
>>>>>>  1.00	 0:51 	  +M1 	1.Qh1+ (10.192.542) 199.6
>>>>>>best move: Qa1-h1 time: 0:51.058 min  n/s: 199.642  nodes: 10.192.560
>>>>>>
>>>>>>kburcham
>>>>>
>>>>>New position
>>>>>[D]8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Analysis by Goliath Light 1.5:
>>>>>
>>>>>1.Qh1#
>>>>>  +-  (#101)   Depth: 4/31   00:00:15  2874kN
>>>>>1.Qh1#
>>>>>  +-  (#1)   Depth: 4/31   00:00:15  2874kN
>>>>>
>>>>>(Blass, Tel-aviv 27.09.2001)
>>>>>
>>>>>I do not understand the first mate in 101 score
>>>>>
>>>>>Deep Fritz's analysis after more than 10 minutes of search
>>>>>
>>>>>New position
>>>>>8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Analysis by Deep Fritz:
>>>>>
>>>>>1.dxe4!
>>>>>  +-  (1.56)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:00
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Is there a simple, understandable reason why several "strong" programs take so
>>>>long here?  (Deep Fritz not seeing the mate in 1 after 10 minutes is
>>>>mind-boggling to me!)
>>>
>>>Yes
>>>
>>>Deep Fritz probably does a typical computer mistake
>>>of searching all the captures first.
>>>
>>>My guess is that one of the possible lines that
>>>Deep fritz searches is for example:
>>>
>>>1.dxe4 gxf5 2.Rxg4 fxg4 3.Bxd4 Bxa5 4.exf4 cxb5 5.Rxh5 Bxb3
>>>6.fxg4 Kxg4 7.Bxf6 Kxg3
>>>
>>>I guess that it is only one of the lines that Deep Fritz see
>>>before looking at Qh1#
>>>
>>
>>
>>I thought all programs searched everthing one ply first, then two ply, then
>>three, etc.  If there's a MATE at one ply, then it would find it in a tiny
>>fraction of a second, no matter which order it chose to look at the moves, no?
>>Or is it doing extensions on other moves, even at ply 1?
>
>yes
>it does a lot of extensions in this kind of positions.
>it extend all the logical captures.
>usually the number of captures is not big so it can finish the job very fast but
>it is not the case in the relevant position.
>
>Uri

When my old Turbo King (of about 1989) was in working order, I tried all kinds
of wierd positions, and there was never a mate in two, however complex which
needed as much as 2 seconds to solve.
 Mates came quicker than the search of the complete ply, in many cases.
Can anyone with that machine, test it? Or another old machine? I might get mine
back into use one day, but only when I have time to look for it etc.
S.Taylor



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