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Subject: Re: Mate in 16

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:53:25 01/07/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 14:45:25, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On January 07, 2002 at 13:48:46, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2002 at 13:43:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On January 07, 2002 at 13:41:58, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 07, 2002 at 12:13:31, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>    Sorry,I don't have the solution,just the word of Philippe Canteau. JAFM
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately, according to Chest this is no mate in 16.
>>>>I'll now try with depth=18 and followup.
>>>
>>>are you trying 9 moves at chest now or 18 moves = 36 ply ?
>>
>>18 moves = 35 plies.
>>
>>Timing up to now (Athlon 1500+, 128MB hash, some 5-piece EGTBs):
>>
>>#  4      0.00s                 0kN [  3.65]  1.22         34-         0
>>#  5      0.00s                 1kN [  2.73]  1.69         94-         0
>>#  6      0.01s                 1kN [  2.32]  2.41        199-         0
>>#  7      0.02s [  2.00]        3kN [  2.06]  3.31        362-         0
>>#  8      0.03s [  1.50]        5kN [  1.83]  4.43        584-         0
>>#  9      0.06s [  2.00]        9kN [  1.71]  5.87        934-         0
>># 10      0.19s [  3.17]       30kN [  3.15]  5.95       4147-         0
>># 11      0.94s [  4.95]      151kN [  5.13]  6.12      22096-         0
>># 12      7.98s [  8.49]     1700kN [ 11.23]  4.91     209156-         0
>># 13     18.94s [  2.37]     4225kN [  2.48]  7.23     496401-         1
>># 14     30.99s [  1.64]     7008kN [  1.66] 11.25     829130-        52
>># 15     37.34s [  1.20]     8470kN [  1.21] 16.63    1007516-       225
>># 16    290.95s [  7.79]    63709kN [  7.52] 11.38    7013345-   3815028
>>
>>Groetjes,
>>Heiner
>
>Chest confirms that this is a mate in 18 (52.2 minutes):
>
>PV: d3 Rxd3+ f3 Rxf3+ Kh2 Rh3+ Kg1 Rh1+ Kf2 Rf1+ Ke3 Rf3+ Kd2 Rd3+ Kc1 Rd8 b4
>Rd1+ Kb2 Rb1+ Kc3 Rb3+ Kd2 Rd3+ Ke1 Rd1+ Kf2 Rf1+ Kg3 Rf3+ Kh2 Rxf7 Ra8+ Rf8
>Rxf8#
>
>Timing continued:
>
># 17    624.94s [  2.15]   135460kN [  2.13] 13.27   14703795-  11504562
># 18   3133.94s [  5.01]   650405kN [  4.80] 11.79   69670388-  66471155
>
>EGTB use was minimal (7384 accesses).

Pretty astounding that Pepito found the exact same line in 45.67 seconds.
Probably a lot of single-reply to check, since the line seems completely forced.



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