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Subject: Re: Mate in 12 ....

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 10:29:09 01/07/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 11:34:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 07, 2002 at 11:22:18, Robert Basham wrote:
>
>>Extreme Chess takes 15 ply and 42 sec. to find
>>1. Rh8+...! but then has trouble playing it out to the end...
>>
>>(The same kind of problem occurs with Hiarcs7 also)...
>>
>>[D]qn1rn1k1/2rp2N1/2b1p1K1/4Bp2/p7/1p6/2p5/7R w - -
>
>diep single cpu:
>
>process 0: engineflags = 0 denktime=10000000 maxtime=10000000
>00:00 0 0 58 (0) 1 -40.168 Be5xc7 Bc6xh1 Bc7xd8 Ne8xg7
>00:00 0 0 203 (0) 1 -29.508 Ng7xe8
>++ h1-h8
>00:00 0 0 423 (0) 1 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-g4 Kh8-g
>8 Ng4-f6
>00:00 0 0 574 (0) 2 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-g4 Kh8-g
>8 Ng4-f6
>00:00 0 0 1644 (0) 3 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-g4 Kh8-
>g8 Ng4-f6
>00:00 0 0 3310 (0) 4 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:00 0 0 7423 (0) 5 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:00 0 0 9896 (0) 6 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:00 0 0 19856 (0) 7 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:00 0 0 59143 (0) 8 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:01 0 0 121965 (0) 9 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:03 0 0 242160 (0) 10 0.000 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-e8
>00:05 0 0 442239 (0) 11 MATE12 Rh1-h8 Kg8xh8 Ng7xe8 Kh8-g8 Ne8-f6 Kg8-h8 Nf6-g4
>Kh8-g8 Ng4-h6 Kg8-f8 Be5-d6 Kf8-e8 Nh6-g8 Rd8-c8 Ng8-f6 Ke8-d8 Kg6-f7 Rc7-a7 Nf6
>-e8 Rc8-c7 Bd6-e7 Kd8-c8 Ne8-d6

To verify that this is the shortest and unique mate Chest needs 70 minutes
on an Athlon XP 1500+ with 128MB hash:

PV: Rh8+ Kxh8 Nxe8+ Kg8 Nf6+ Kh8 Ng4+ Kg8 Nh6+ Kf8 Bd6+ Ke8 Ng8 Rdc8 Nf6+ Kd8
Kf7 Rb7 Ne8 Rcc7 Be7+ Kc8 Nd6#

(nearly identical)

#  4      0.03s                 2kN [  6.98]  1.15        544-         0
#  5      0.14s [  4.67]       11kN [  5.04]  1.54       2653-         0
#  6      0.64s [  4.57]       53kN [  4.83]  1.95      13440-         0
#  7      2.80s [  4.38]      273kN [  5.12]  2.54      65346-         0
#  8     10.33s [  3.69]     1133kN [  4.15]  3.28     266081-         0
#  9     39.14s [  3.79]     4414kN [  3.90]  4.08    1025109-       247
# 10    152.42s [  3.89]    16877kN [  3.82]  4.80    3914255-    852071
# 11    724.66s [  4.75]    77909kN [  4.62]  4.82   18536276-  15337043
# 12   4199.66s [  5.80]   454667kN [  5.84]  4.79  107933663- 104734430

Hey, Leonid, how does your EBF look like, here?

Cheers,
Heiner



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