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Subject: Re: Mate in 10

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 13:20:22 01/19/02

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On January 19, 2002 at 03:50:40, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>
>How long does your program take?
>Yace, Goliath Light, Nimzo, Comet and CM8000 need only seconds !!
>What of Shredder, Tigers, Junior, Hiarcs and Fritz?
>
>[D]5r2/r3Npkp/3pn1p1/qbnNp2P/1p2P3/5P2/PP1QB1P1/1KR4R w - - 0 1
>
>HyLogicChess needs 51 minutes :( on an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 32 MB Hash.
>Looks like I must go optimizing extensions again.
>
>[1] (0.90)  1.Bxb5 (00h:00m:00s)
>[2] (0.91)  1.h6 Kh8 2.Bxb5 (00h:00m:00s)
>[3] (0.91)  1.h6 Kh8 2.Bxb5 Qxb5 (00h:00m:00s)
>[4] (1.30)  1.h6 Kh8 2.Bxb5 Qxb5 3.Rhd1 (00h:00m:00s)
>[5] (0.77)  1.b3 Bxe2 2.Qxe2 Raa8 3.g3 (00h:00m:01s)
>[6] (-0.54)  1.h6 Kh8 2.Nxb4 Bxe2 3.Qxe2 Rxe7 4.Nc6 Nd4 (00h:00m:12s)
>[7] (0.24)  1.b3 Nxb3 (00h:00m:32s)
>[8] (0.90)  1.Bc4 Nxe4 2.h6 Kh8 3.fxe4 Bxc4 4.Nxb4 d5 5.exd5 (00h:01m:07s)
>[9] (0.66)  1.Nxb4 Bxe2 2.Qxe2 Rxe7 3.Nd5 Rd7 4.b4 Nd4 5.bxa5 (00h:02m:38s)
>[10] (2.03)  1.Bc4 gxh5 2.Qxb4 Qxb4 3.Nf5 Kg8 4.Nxb4 Bxc4 5.Rxc4 Rd8
>(00h:10m:26s)
>[11] (6.39)  1.Bc4 Kh8 2.Qh6 (00h:33m:53s)
>[12] (+Mate in 10)  1.Qh6 Kxh6 2.hxg6 Kg5 3.Rh5 Kxh5 4.f4 Bxe2 5.Nf6 Kh6 6.Rh1
>Bh5 7.Rxh5 Kg7 8.Ne8 Rxe8 9.Rxh7 Kf6 10.Rxf7 (00h:51m:14s)
>
>Regards,
>Matthias.

This one is surprisingly easy for Chest: 4 minutes on Athlon 1500+ with
128MB hash finds Qh6+ to be the unique key for mate in 10:

PV: Qh6+ Kxh6 hxg6+ Kg5 Rh5+ Kxh5 f4+ Bxe2 Nf6+ Kh6 Rh1+ Bh5 Rxh5+ Kg7 Ne8+ Rxe8
Rxh7+ Kf6 Rxf7#

Seems like black has enough active material to cut down the EBF to fairly
below 6 (per move, not per ply):

#  4      0.02s [  2.00]        2kN [  6.72]  1.00        380-         0
#  5      0.09s [  4.50]        8kN [  3.82]  1.18       1675-         0
#  6      0.62s [  6.89]       61kN [  7.20]  1.36      12269-         0
#  7      2.17s [  3.50]      231kN [  3.82]  2.01      45365-         0
#  8      9.59s [  4.42]     1138kN [  4.92]  2.56     221053-         0
#  9     43.53s [  4.54]     5394kN [  4.74]  3.04    1009781-       155
# 10    241.47s [  5.55]    30335kN [  5.62]  3.32    5394124-   2204107

Cheers,
Heiner



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