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Subject: MacChess on G4/867 finds Mate in 5 in 70 milliseconds (0.07 seconds)

Author: Richard A. Fowell

Date: 21:48:21 04/04/02

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On April 04, 2002 at 08:36:05, Art Basham wrote:

>White mates in 5..!
>
[D]8/8/8/p7/8/8/R6p/2K2Rbk w - -
>
>My RISC computer finds 1. Ra2 - f2 in just 73 sec.
>Can your favorite engine do that well..?  :-)

MacChess 5.01 for Macintosh on my G4/867 MHz finds this at ply 5
in 0.0704 seconds. MacChess is freeware, at:
http://members.aol.com/macchess/

Ply    Time      Nodes      Eval    PV
========================================================================
05/01|00:00:00|       81145| +569| Kb1 a4 Rd1 a3 Rdd2 Be3 Rxh2+ Kg1 Rag2+ Kf1
Kc2
05/07|00:00:00|      182677|+M5  | Raf2 a4 Kd2 a3 Ra1 a2 Ke1 Bxf2+ Kxf2+
06/01|00:00:00|      287037|+M5  | Raf2 a4 Kd2 a3 Ra1 a2 Ke1 Bxf2+ Kxf2+
07/01|00:00:01|      682385|+M5  | Raf2 a4 Kd2 a3 Ra1 a2 Ke1 Bxf2+ Kxf2+
08/01|00:00:01|     1428086|+M5  | Raf2 a4 Kd2 a3 Ra1 a2 Ke1 Bxf2+ Kxf2+
09/01|00:00:03|     2594914|+M5  | Raf2 a4 Kd2 a3 Ra1 a2 Ke1 Bxf2+ Kxf2+

(Note that, as of version 5.01, MacChess doesn't stop immediately when
it finds mate, but tries to find the shortest mate within the time
allowed).

Richard A. Fowell



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