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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: leonid

Date: 08:49:03 10/13/01

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On October 13, 2001 at 07:54:07, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On October 13, 2001 at 06:53:01, Paul wrote:
>
>>On October 12, 2001 at 12:50:01, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>[D]3n1K2/krbb1P1P/3n1Q1R/1R1r1Q1Q/1R3B1q/1NNQPB1q/7q/qqqqq2q w - -
>>>
>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>It took Pretz (& me) quite some time to find anything at all:
>>
>>15:14 WM11 12 Rxb7+ N8xb7 Qfxd5 Bc6 Qa5+ Qxa5 Qxa5+ Bxa5 Qfd4+ Bb6 Qxb6+ Kb8
>>Qxb7+ Bxb7 Rxb7+ Kc8 Qc4+ Nxc4 Rb8+ Kd7 Nc5#
>>
>>My 'standard-Leonid-settings' didn't do the trick here, so I had to fiddle
>>around a bit to get this ... great position.
>>
>>Groetjes,
>>Paul
>
>Hello Leonid, Hello Paul,
>
>Chest (& me) did not come up with as much: after 7.4 hours on a K7/600 with
>350 MB hash Chest mutters "No solution in 9 moves."  Here is the timing:
>
>#  1      0.00s                 0kN           0.87          1-         0
>#  2      0.00s                 0kN           1.00          1-         0
>#  3      0.02s                 0kN [ 17.14]  0.94         78-         0
>#  4      0.40s [ 20.00]       14kN [ 37.71]  0.98       2163-         0
>#  5      4.78s [ 11.95]      176kN [ 12.98]  1.15      26250-         0
>#  6     46.01s [  9.63]     1834kN [ 10.40]  1.37     251710-         0
>#  7    385.66s [  8.38]    15395kN [  8.40]  1.76    2171527-        92
>#  8   3094.26s [  8.02]   121911kN [  7.92]  2.20   16929195-   8186873
>#  9  26545.93s [  8.58]  1016749kN [  8.34]  2.27  148520619- 13977271
>
>As you can see, the next level would be 8.5 times as long.  Someone with a
>faster CPU may want to try it.  Starting with mere 77 legal moves an EBF
>above 8 is just a bit too much.  Otherwise there were no surprises in the
>full statistics... a typical "lion" (== Leonid's creature :-).

Thanks, Heiner!

You went farther that me. I stopped after 7 move, since it took already 12 min
and 12 sec.

Selective found mate in 11 moves. Now only 10 move is a mystery.

Brute force:

Moves        Time          Branching          NPS (nodes/second)

4            0.439 sec                        47k
                           7.87
5            3.2                              95k
                           12.31
6            42 sec                           81k
                           17.16
7            12 min 12 sec                    80k

Celeron 600Mhz. No hash.

Cheers,
Leonid.

>Cheers,
>Heiner



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