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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: leonid

Date: 04:46:17 10/06/01

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On October 05, 2001 at 17:25:22, Paul wrote:

>On October 05, 2001 at 16:02:14, Paul wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2001 at 12:59:56, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>Today, after good explantion of how it must be done, I installed Chest (Heiner's
>>>mate solver). It do the wonders on brute force search. I went to see some
>>>positions that otherwise will be too slow for me to solve. It could be that you
>>>can help me with one position. Your computer and hash could make solution more
>>>speedy. Mine is Celeron 600Mhz, 64M. This position is actually one from three
>>>similar positions one of which went to Web. This last was left as less
>>>accessible. Just say me how far you went, or what solution you found.
>>>
>>>[D]kq4BK/pq4QQ/2qqnP2/1NnqQnN1/2QBqB2/5r2/RQ4qr/RQ4bb w - -
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>For now here's what Pretz found:
>>
>>00:40 WM12 12 Rxa7+ Q8xa7 Rxa7+ Kb8 Ra8+ Kxa8 Q1a1+ Qca6 Qxa6+ Nxa6 Qc8+ Qdb8
>>Qexb8+ Nxb8 Nc7+ Nxc7 Qxb8+ Qxb8 Qxb8+ Kxb8 Qxc7+ Ka8 Qb8#
>>
>>A mate in 12 in 40 seconds.
>>
>
>As an exception to my general rule :), I've now tried this one with Chest. Just
>finished the search for a mate in 10 without result, but in light of the times
>and factors I can't start a mate in 11 search now, maybe tomorrow.
>
>Depth	Seconds		Factor
>
>6	.48
>7	3.32		6.9
>8	28.12		8.5
>9	266.92		9.5
>10	2348.34		8.8
>
>So depth 11 could take about 6 hours.

Thanks, Paul! Now for me only 11 moves is not sure.

Cheers,
Leonid.


>Groetjes,
>Paul



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