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Subject: Re: How long does it take your program to find Nf6! in this position?

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 10:52:45 10/23/01

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Mr. Williams,

Chess Tiger on a PII 333 with 24 Mb Hash 96 Mb RAM finds Nf6+ in 32 seconds.
by inference I would think that My AMD 1400 would find the solution in 5 to 6
seconds.

Isn't this fun.?


Tim


00:00:00.5	0.50	7	32779	Ng5 h6 Nf4 Qd7 Ne4 Ned5
00:00:00.6	0.26	7	37848	Ng5 h6 Nf4 Qd7 Ne4 Ncd5 Rf3
00:00:01.9	0.40	7	90263	Qg4 Qxe5 N2g3 Rxd4 Nf6+ Qxf6 Rxd4
00:00:02.2	0.54	7	143034	f3 Qd7 Qg5 Kh8 Rc2 Rb8 Nd6
00:00:04.3	0.47	8	279814	f3 Ne8 Nf4 Qd7 Rc1 Nf5 Ne2 b5 Rxc6 Nxd4 Nxd4
00:00:07.3	0.46	9	572242	f3 Qd7 Qg5 Kh8 Rc2 Ncd5 Nd6 f6 Qc1
00:00:16.7	0.44	10	1238532	f3 Qd7 Qg5 Kh8 Rc2 Ncd5 Nd6 f6 Qh5 Ne3
00:00:23.4	0.48	10	1713472	Qg4 Qxe5 N2g3 Rxd4 f4 Rxe4 Nxe4 h5 fxe5 hxg4 Nd6
00:00:32.3	1.36	10	2523040	Nf6+
00:00:37.5	12.08	10	2951051	Nf6+ gxf6 Rg3+ Kh8 Qh6 Ng6 Rh3 Qxg2+ Kxg2 Nh4+ Rxh4
Rg8+ Kf1 Rg7 Rxc6
00:00:40.4	11.18	11	3267080	Nf6+
00:00:57.7	10.28	12	4924399	Nf6+
00:01:07.3	11.18	13	5818920	Nf6+


On October 23, 2001 at 13:12:38, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My program lost this game against a crafty clone on ICC recently:
>
>[Event "ICS rated blitz match"]
>[Site "204.178.125.65"]
>[Date "2001.10.21"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "MoonShot"]
>[Black "PostModernist"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[WhiteElo "2859"]
>[BlackElo "2772"]
>[TimeControl "600+2"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 e6 4. e4 Bb4 5. Bd3 d5 6. e5 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Nd5 8.
>Ne2 b6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd3 Be7 11. Bd2 Bb7 12. Qg3 Kh8 13. Ne4 Ba6 14. Rac1
>Bxc4 15. Rxc4 Qd7 16. Bg5 Na6 17. Bxe7 Nxe7 18. Nd6 Nc7 19. Rfc1 Rad8 20.
>Qf3 Ne8 21. Ne4 Kg8 22. Qh3 a5 23. a4 Nc7 24. Qg4 Kh8 25. Qh5 Kg8 26. R1c3
>Qd5 27. Nf6+ gxf6 28. Rg3+ Kh8 29. Qh6 Ng6 30. Rh3
>{PostModernist resigns} 1-0
>
>
>The move 27.Nf6+ wins everything immediately. MoonShot (crafty 18.12
>on  a K7 1.33GHz) found that in 14 seconds (albeit with hash-tables
>already full). With some fiddling about with null move rules, PM can
>find it in 37 seconds from a "standing start" (K7 1.2GHz). I'd be
>interested to know how other programs do on this.
>
>[D]3r1rk1/2n1nppp/1pp1p3/p2qP2Q/P1RPN3/2R5/1P2NPPP/6K1 w - - bm Nf6
>
>
>Regards
>
>Andrew



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