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Subject: Re: Mate in 19, which program?

Author: Paul Byrne

Date: 21:43:04 03/08/02

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On March 08, 2002 at 15:58:18, Angrim wrote:

>On March 08, 2002 at 09:22:58, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>[d]4r3/p1p1pPp1/P1P1P1P1/5K2/3p2P1/7p/3P1ppr/3R1nkq w - - id M19;
>>
>>I came across this beauty, mate in 19 moves. Rebel has no clue.
>>
>>Ed
>
>too complex for regular pn-search, pn^2 search proves the win
>in 99 seconds.
>hardware: Athlon 1.2ghz
>proved that move f7xe8n wins, 18.5 turns
>PN2:42345930 evals, 3827760 expands, 99.18 seconds
>
>Almost all of the time was spent searching the winning move,
>Rb1 was the only other move that was searched for more than
>one pn2 node.
>
>Angrim

Guildenstern's PN search found this in 44.3 seconds... (also Athlon 1.2 GHz)
   i=1563432 n=11725648 p=0 d=1000000000 t=44.343
What is interesting is that my PN^2 search finds it faster than the regular PN:
   i=605 n=4659/10523188 p=0/49 d=1000000000/1000000000 t=40.27

-paul




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