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Subject: Re: Ply depths?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:45:12 03/06/02

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On March 06, 2002 at 12:00:02, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On March 06, 2002 at 11:01:26, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>
>>[D]7k/2p3p1/4Q2p/p3n3/2pBP2P/2P3P1/1r2q3/5RK1 w
>>
>>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>>0:00	1/3	0.00	5111		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.Qg8+ Kg6 3.Qe6+ Kh7
>>0:00	1/4	0.00	23042		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.Qg8+ Kg6 3.Qe6+ Kh7
>>0:00	2/5	Mate15	57975		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.Qg8+ Kg6 3.Rf6+ Kxf6
>>					4.Qf8+ Ke6 5.Qe8+ Kd6 6.Bxe5+ Kc5
>>					7.Bd4+ Kd6 8.Qd8+ Ke6 9.Qd5+ Ke7
>>					10.Bc5+ Ke8 11.Qe6+ Kd8 12.Be7+
>>					Ke8 13.Bf6+ Kf8 14.Qe7+ Kg8 15.Qxg7#
>>0:01	2/6	Mate15	106803		1.Rf8+ Kh7 2.Qg8+ Kg6 3.Rf6+ Kxf6
>>					4.Qf8+ Ke6 5.Qe8+ Kd6 6.Bxe5+ Kc5
>>					7.Bd4+ Kd6 8.Qd8+ Ke6 9.Qd5+ Ke7
>>					10.Bc5+ Ke8 11.Qe6+ Kd8 12.Be7+
>>					Ke8 13.Bf6+ Kf8 14.Qe7+ Kg8 15.Qxg7#
>>
>
>Interesting. My program Gaviota finds Mate in 15, with the same sequence
>of moves in 18 seconds on a PIV 1.4 Ghz. Also, at ply 6 and I am very happy with
>that. The interesting part is that Gaviota requires ~2Mega positions
>where CM requires only 100K. In this particular position CM's tree is
>20-fold leaner! I will have to work hard on trimming the fat!

Actually, CM finds it in <60K moves. Look at the first Mate15 PV. Still, though,
your program certainly finds it in a respectable time!

jm



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