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Subject: Re: End Game Study

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 08:43:04 03/29/02

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On March 29, 2002 at 11:11:26, Art Basham wrote:

>White mates in 6 with 1. f3..!
>[D]8/8/6kN/8/6NK/8/p4P2/B7 w - -
>
>From an old CCC Reports publication...
>
>Novag Scorpio could not do this one because...
> instead of promoting to a knight, it promotes to a bishop..!

Wilhelm finds it without any problems. This search is without EGTB. If I use
EGTB, it finds a mate in 20 first before it sees the mate in 6. Without EGTB,
the solution is found clearly faster:

 ply     time   value    nodes N    nodes Q    PV
   1       0s    9.37         19          9    Ba1-e5
   2       0s   10.54        137         46    f2-f4 Kg6-h7! f4-f5
   3       0s   10.54        820        128    f2-f3 Kg6-h7! f3-f4 Kh7-g6!
f4-f5+
   4       0s   11.97       3621        580    Ba1-e5 Kg6-h7 Kh4-g5 a2-a1Q
   5       0s   12.13      17508       1830    f2-f3 Kg6-h7! f3-f4 Kh7-g6!
f4-f5+ Kg6-h7! Ba1-e5 a2-a1Q
   6       0s   12.14      68301       7837    f2-f4 Kg6-h7! Ba1-e5 Kh7-g6
f4-f5+ Kg6-h7! Kh4-g5 a2-a1Q
   7       2s  +#   6     269259      28891    f2-f3 Kg6-h7! f3-f4 Kh7-g6!
f4-f5+ Kg6-h7! f5-f6 Kh7-g6 f6-f7 Kg6-h7! f7-f8N+
   8       8s  +#   6     907906     100845    f2-f3 Kg6-h7! f3-f4 Kh7-g6!
f4-f5+ Kg6-h7! f5-f6 Kh7-g6 f6-f7 Kg6-h7! f7-f8N+

Alpha cutoffs:         41521, Beta cutoffs:         140346, 1st Beta cutoff:
97.99%
Futility cutoffs:        538, Nullmove searches:     31702, Nullmove cutoffs:
0.02%
Hash: Stored:         524454, Accesses:    905658, successful:  59.99%
Depth: complete:       8 ply, Extensions:  16 ply, Quiescecence: 19 ply
Co-ord. square sys:        0
EGTB accesses:             0
nodes total:         1008751, Quiescence:  10.00%
time:                  8 sec, Speed:              126093 nod/sec

regards
Rafael B. Andrist




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