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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: leonid

Date: 17:00:24 10/02/01

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On October 02, 2001 at 10:07:56, Paul wrote:

>On October 01, 2001 at 12:56:43, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>Today I wanted to put some simple mate position. This one, at least, have very
>>unsophisticated shape.
>>
>>[D]8/8/3QQQQK/3nbrpn/3pQQBQ/3bQrqq/3qRqNB/3qRnNk w - -
>>
>>Please indicate your result.
>>
>>If you happened to have some version of Chess Master that do brute force search,
>>please find for me time that it take for him to find mate in 4 and 5 moves for
>>this position. I need this in order to have some idea what is his branching
>>factor. I tried to do this myself with CM5000, that I have, but found no
>>possibility to indicate my position. Since CM is the most performant and the
>>most frequently mentioned program that solve the mate, I would like to know his
>>basic mate solving capability.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>Hi!

Hi!

>Haven't got CM6000 installed at the moment, and don't remember if it's got a
>mate level search, but John Merlino is the best person to answer that.
>
>For Pretz this is a difficult problem, for now it finds this:
>
>06:18 WM9 11 Nxh3 Ndxf6 Bxf3 Ng4+ Qfxg4 Bg7+ Qxg7 Rf6+ Qgxf6 Bxe4 Nxf2+ Qxf2
>Nf4+ Bxf3 Qgxf3+ Qxf3 Qxf3#
>20:52 WM8 11 Bxf3 Ndxf6 Bxg3 Ng4+ Qfxg4 Bg7+ Qxg7 Rf6+ Qgxf6 Nh2 Nf4+ Nxf3
>Qgxh3+ Qh2 Qxh2#

I am not sure what you found but mine looked only by selective. I don't know
what is the minimal number of moves for this position. Mate by selective was
found 10 move deep. It took pretty long time - 66 seconds.

Cheers,
Leonid.

>Groetjes,
>Paul



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