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Subject: Re: I was complete wrong! There is no progress (except in Yace)...

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 04:00:41 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 06:58:19, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 03, 2002 at 01:05:14, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>[D]k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
>>
>>Mate in 8
>>
>>I tried this at home with Tiger14 and Fritz7 and Shredder5.32. None of them has
>>any idea about mate in 8. Then I tried with Mate2.1, but no solution under 30
>>minutes. What's the problem? Only Yace gives CORRECT mate in few seconds. Is
>>this null move problem?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Crappy version of Chezzz:
>
>WHITE(1): go
>I'm thinking...
>time         nodes depth    score  pv
>00:00:00.13   55kn 08/14/14 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:00.21   87kn 09/16/16 +10.595 1. Rd1 Kxa7 2. Rd6 Ka8
>                                   3. Rd7 Kb8 4. Ke2 Kc8
>                                   5. a7
>00:00:00.36  146kn 09/16/16 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:00.48  199kn 10/18/18 +10.645 1. Rd1 Kxa7 2. Rd6 Ka8
>                                   3. Rd7 Kb8 4. Kf2 Ka8
>                                   5. Ke2
>00:00:00.69  332kn 10/18/18 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:00.89  462kn 11/18/18 +10.745 1. Rd1 Kxa7 2. Rd6 Ka8
>                                   3. Rd7 Kb8 4. Kf2 Ka8
>                                   5. Ke3 Kb8 6. a7+ Ka8
>00:00:01.30  735kn 11/19/19 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:01.94 1159kn 12/20/20 +10.845 1. Rd1 Kxa7 2. Rd6 Ka8
>                                   3. Rd7 Kb8 4. Kf2 Ka8
>                                   5. Ke3 Kb8 6. a7+ Ka8
>                                   7. Ke4
>00:00:02.47 1520kn 12/20/20 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:04.36 2736kn 13/20/20 +10.795 1. Rd1 Kxa7 2. Rd6 Ka8
>                                   3. Rd7 Kb8 4. Kf2 Ka8
>                                   5. Ke3 Kb8 6. Ke4 Kc8
>                                   7. a7
>00:00:04.48 2810kn 13/20/20 +11.178 1. O-O-O!
>00:00:05.44 3437kn 13/20/20 +12.525 1. O-O-O Kxa7 2. Kb1 Kxa6
>                                   3. Rd6+ Kb7 4. a6+ Ka7
>                                   5. Kb2 Kb8 6. Rd7
>00:00:06.29 3983kn 13/22/22 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:06.72 4257kn 14/22/22 +12.858 1. O-O-O!
>00:00:11.68 7342kn 14/22/22 +MAT17 1. O-O-O Kxa7 2. Kc2 Kb8
>                                   3. Rd7 Ka8 4. Rd8+ Ka7
>00:00:16.27   10Mn 14/23/23 ---------------------------------------------------
>00:00:25.29   15Mn 15/24/24 +MAT15 1. O-O-O Kxa7 2. Rd8 Kxa6
>                                   3. Rd7 Kxa5 4. Rd6 Kxa4
>                                   5. Rd5 Kxa3 6. Rd4 Kxa2
>                                   7. Rd3 Ka1 8. Ra3#
>00:00:39.55   24Mn 15/25/25 ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
>        Time used: 00:00:39.55
>        nps: 618190     nodes: 24449424 Q-nodes: 408305 (1%)
>        move order: 99%
>        hash probes: 11558679   hash hits: 7769302 (67%)        hash usage: 99%
>        hash collision: 0
>        pawn hash probes: 12890745       pawn hash hits: 12890688 (99%)
>1. O-O-O
>BLACK(1):
>
>So it finds the mate in 26 seconds. Is it the correct mate?

Yes, but you seem to show the mate distance in plies (15) instead of full moves
(8).

Greetings,
Steffen.



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