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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 05:12:46 10/06/01

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On October 06, 2001 at 07:54:35, leonid wrote:

>On October 06, 2001 at 05:07:58, Tim Foden 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.
>>
>>Pretz did very well to find a mate in 40 seconds!  Green Light took over 6
>>hours!
>>
>> 10  20:53      ++ 671083k  Qxb7+   (a=21.81 b=22.61 e=22.61)
>> 10  39:20 +29.914   1392m  Qxb7+ Qbxb7 Rxa7+ Kb8 Ra8+ Qxa8 Nxd6+ Qxb2 Qxb2+
>>                              Rb3 Rxa8+ Qxa8 Qbxb3+ Qab7 Ndxe4+ Qxe5 Bfxe5+ Nc7
>>                              Bxc7+ Ka8 Qxb7+ Kxb7 Nxc5+ Ka8 Bxh2 Bxd4 Qxf5
>> 10 6:04:59 +Mate12  13318m  Nc7+ Qcxc7 Rxa7+ Q8xa7 Rxa7+ Kb8 Rxb7+ Qdxb7 Qxb7+
>>                              Qexb7 Qxb7+ Kxb7 Qxc7+ Nxc7 Qb5+ Kc8 Qee8+ Nxe8
>>                              Qxe8+ Qd8 Qc6+ Qc7 Qxc7#
>> 10 6:24:27 +Mate12  14263m  Nc7+ Qcxc7 Rxa7+ Q8xa7 Rxa7+ Kb8 Rxb7+ Qdxb7 Qxb7+
>>                              Qexb7 Qxb7+ Kxb7 Qxc7+ Nxc7 Qb5+ Kc8 Qee8+ Nxe8
>>                              Qxe8+ Qd8 Qc6+ Qc7 Qxc7#
>> 11 8:12:18 +Mate12  19413m  Nc7+ Qcxc7 Rxa7+ Q8xa7 Rxa7+ Kb8 Rxb7+ Qdxb7 Qxb7+
>>                              Qexb7 Qxb7+ Kxb7 Qxc7+ Nxc7 Qb5+ Kc8 Qee8+ Nxe8
>>                              Qxe8+ Qd8 Qc6+ Qc7 Qxc7#
>> 11 10:00:11   1/73           Rxa7+  >exit
>>
>>Cheers, Tim.
>
>Hi, Tim!
>
>I don't know if I asked you this some time before but I am curious to know. Do
>you have in your solver equal way written plys, or you have specialized plys? At
>least, now I know already three person that use specialized plys in their
>program; I am one between them. Not everybody do this. Paul, for instance, do
>otherwise and still reach good result.

No Leonid.  My program is a normal chess program.  It doesn't have a mate
solving mode, and I don't intend to add one.  :)

Cheers, Tim.



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