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Subject: Re: A Missed Mate in 4

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 09:04:23 03/10/02

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On March 09, 2002 at 09:46:43, leonid wrote:

>On March 07, 2002 at 19:48:08, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On March 07, 2002 at 08:05:18, Art Basham wrote:
>>
>>>Some programs that I have miss this mate in 4..!
>>>
>>>1. Qc6 wins for white!!
>>>
>>>[D]2kr1b1r/1pp1qp1p/3p2p1/1P1Pp3/2Q1P1n1/R4N2/1PP2PPP/5RK1 w - -
>>
>>White(2): setboard 2kr1b1r/1pp1qp1p/3p2p1/1P1Pp3/2Q1P1n1/R4N2/1PP2PPP/5RK1 w - -
>>
>>White(1): st 180
>>search time set to 180.00.
>>White(1): go
>>              clearing hash tables
>>crafty is behind 32.0 on time, reducing by 1/96.
>>              time surplus   0.00  time limit 3:00 (3:00)
>>         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
>>                5     0.09   0.61   1. b6 Bh6 2. Ra8+ Kd7 3. Qb5+ c6 4.
>>                                    dxc6+ Ke6 5. Qd5+ Kf6 6. cxb7 Kg7
>>                5->   0.09   0.61   1. b6 Bh6 2. Ra8+ Kd7 3. Qb5+ c6 4.
>>                                    dxc6+ Ke6 5. Qd5+ Kf6 6. cxb7 Kg7
>>                6     0.15   0.84   1. b6 Bg7 2. Ra8+ Kd7 3. Qb5+ c6 4.
>>                                    dxc6+ Ke6 5. Qd5+ Kf6 6. cxb7 Rb8 7.
>>                                    Ra7
>>                6->   0.18   0.84   1. b6 Bg7 2. Ra8+ Kd7 3. Qb5+ c6 4.
>>                                    dxc6+ Ke6 5. Qd5+ Kf6 6. cxb7 Rb8 7.
>>                                    Ra7
>>                7     0.50   0.77   1. b6 Bh6 2. Rfa1 Rhf8 3. Ra8+ Kd7
>>                                    4. Qb5+ c6 5. dxc6+ Ke6 6. Qd5+ Kf6
>>                                    7. cxb7 Kg7
>>                7     0.61     ++   1. Qc6!!
>>                7     0.62  Mat04   1. Qc6 bxc6 2. dxc6 Kb8 3. Rfa1 Nf6
>>                                    4. Ra8#
>>         (3)    7->   0.62  Mat04   1. Qc6 bxc6 2. dxc6 Kb8 3. Rfa1 Nf6
>>                                    4. Ra8#
>>              time=0.84  cpu=148%  mat=-2  n=918801  fh=94%  nps=1093k
>>              ext-> chk=38957 cap=7162 pp=6426 1rep=5746 mate=731
>>              predicted=0  nodes=918801  evals=98158
>>              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
>>              hashing-> trans/ref=44%  pawn=98%  used=3%
>>              SMP->  split=141  stop=14  data=6/32  cpu=1.25  elap=0.84
>>
>>mate in 4 moves.
>
>I looked by curiousity this position with my mate solver and found that finding
>of mate goes slowly. Even when mate was found by few versions of selective
>search time was still identical.
>
>LLchess mate solver. Celeron 600Mhz. No hash.
>
>Mate in 4 moves found and took 0.21 sec. First move goes by white queen C4-C6.

This is almost the same time Chest needs on equal hardware: 0.17 secs
without hash and 0.16 secs with hash.  So you are in good company.

>Initial move was real surprise!

I had seen this kind of mate attack earlier, so for me the surprise was not
so big.

>Leonid.

Cheers,
Heiner



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