Author: leonid
Date: 12:56:28 10/08/01
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On October 08, 2001 at 11:55:37, Paul wrote: >On October 08, 2001 at 11:31:50, leonid wrote: > >>On October 08, 2001 at 09:03:15, Paul wrote: >> >>>On October 08, 2001 at 08:18:22, leonid wrote: >>> >>>>Hi! >>>> >>>>I looked through few mate positions that I have and this I found as looking quit >>>>light and accessible: >>>> >>>>[D]Q6q/1Knnqkq1/1QQ2pr1/1Q1Nq1r1/1P1pN1b1/1Rq2Qb1/1pBBRQP1/q6Q w - - >>>> >>>>Please indicate your result. >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Leonid. >>> >>>Hi Leonid, this indeed looks like a light position, I'm getting more careful in >>>my wording as you notice: :) >>> >>>00:09 WM12 08 Nxg5+ Rxg5 Qcxf6+ Nxf6 Qbxf6+ Qe7xf6 Qxf6+ Qgxf6 Qh7+ Qxh7 Qxf6+ >>>Qxf6 Qbe8+ Nxe8 Qxe8+ Kg7 Re7+ Qxe7+ Qxe7+ Kg8 Nf6+ Kh8 Qxh7# >>> >>>So Pretz found a mate in 12. > >>Your Pretz impress me since it do as well, as my selective can do and sometime >>better. Mine found also in 12 moves and I don't know shortest time. Mine look >>only 9 moves deep by brute force and I can make it run for the next 10, after my >>branching factor. > >Since I have the data, Chest said after 2206 seconds that there was no mate in >11, here are the first lines of the statistics: > > time ># 3 0.00 1.00 0- 0 ># 4 0.16 1.21 478- 0 ># 5 0.55 1.49 1932- 0 ># 6 1.54 1.98 8618- 0 ># 7 5.05 2.59 32559- 0 ># 8 18.19 3.47 132676- 0 ># 9 62.01 4.63 490166- 0 ># 10 269.63 5.02 2352078- 7667 ># 11 2206.19 5.02 20500527- 15913024 > >This was on my work pc (a p3/933), I'll leave it to Heiner to report the mate. > >>My selective took in 12 moves in 6 sec. >> >>Here I can hardly do anything else but seeing TV, or listen programs from all >>over the World by Inernet. Long expected response started. Today begin by >>litening programs for India in Hindi. Every program have its own special >>audience that knows some special details related to given region. > >Must be nice if you can understand so many languages ... I'm still trying to >slowly catch on to Italian, since we have Rai Uno back on cable tv since a >month, but boy do Italians talk fast! :) Just start reading before listening to programs. When you will read in Italian almost like in your mother tongue, come back to listening. Everything will become easy. Your way you still will be successful but that can take longer time. At least it is my guess after my experience. I do see here from time to time Italian programs. They have very good films. We, in Montreal, have big Italian community. Leonid. >The moment I recognize a couple of words and have understood them, they are >already 3 sentences ahead of me. Well, maybe I'm just slow ... ;) >Paul > >>Cheers, >>Leonid.
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