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Subject: Re: Mate in 10

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 07:10:23 04/02/02

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On April 02, 2002 at 09:47:03, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Art,
>
>>Here white plays 1. Qh5+ and wins!
>>
>>[D]2qrr1n1/3b1kp1/2pBpn1p/1p2PP2/p2P4/1BP5/P3Q1PP/4RRK1 w - -
>>
>
>All on a 1.5 GHz P4 with 64 Mb of hash and time quoted is to announce mate:
>
>YACE = 58 secs
>Pepito 1.42 = 35 secs
>Nejmet 3 = 34 secs
>Monarch 2002-04 = 2 min 12 secs
>Shredder 6 Paderborn = >5 min

Wow!!! Gaviota is fast on this one! (which is part of the WCSAC test suite
I cleaned up IIRC) I really wonder why is faster than the above programs.

3.1 seconds to announce mate in 10 on a pIII 800 mhz.

      1104   1:      0.0    +0.36  f5xe6    Bd7xe6
      1743   2:      0.0    +0.25  f5xe6    Bd7xe6   Bb3xe6   Re8xe6
                                   <EMPTY>  <-transp
      3299   3       0.1      :-)  e5xf6
      5329   3:      0.1    +1.42  e5xf6    Ng8xf6   f5xe6    Bd7xe6
      6279   4       0.1    +1.05  e5xf6    Ng8xf6   Bb3-c2   e6xf5
     18961   4:      0.3    +1.05  e5xf6    Ng8xf6   Bb3-c2   e6xf5
     21400   5       0.3    +1.16  e5xf6    Ng8xf6   Bb3-c2   e6xf5
                                   Qe2-d2   Re8xe1   Qd2xe1
     52177   5:      0.7    +1.16  e5xf6    Ng8xf6   Bb3-c2   e6xf5
                                   Qe2-d2   Re8xe1   Qd2xe1
     72449   6       1.0      :-(  e5xf6
    131258   6       1.7      :-)  Qe2-h5
    139383   6       1.8      :-)  Qe2-h5
    174667   6       2.2      :-)  Qe2-h5
    198929   6       2.6      :-)  Qe2-h5
    244222   6       3.1  +Mat_10  Qe2-h5   Nf6xh5   f5xe6    Kf7-g6
                                   Bb3-c2   Kg6-g5   Rf1-f5   Kg5-g6
                                   Rf5-f6   Kg6-g5   Rf6-g6   Kg5-h4
                                   Re1-e4   Nh5-f4   Re4xf4   Kh4-h5
                                   Rg6-g3   Bd7xe6   Bc2-g6

>
>Regards,
>
>Steve



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