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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 12:54:40 06/02/02

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On June 02, 2002 at 08:20:52, leonid wrote:

>On June 02, 2002 at 05:20:35, Tim Foden wrote:
>
>>On June 01, 2002 at 08:45:35, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>[D]Kn4QQ/RNQQQQQ1/nqrqqp2/qNRQq3/kBBp4/rbq5/Pb6/q7 w - -
>>>
>>>Please indicate your result.
>>
>>GLC 2.18, 24MB Hash, AXP 1.46GHz, finds that Bxb3+ is a mate in 10 after 21.04
>>seconds.
>>
>>Cheers, Tim.
>
>Thanks, Tim!
>
>Since I see that you found mate at 10, I will try later at the same depth but
>with much deeper selective. Before I used my usual, almost default selective
>that make search at reasonable time. It is "mixed search" where initial brute
>force search goes the most 3 moves deep (6 plys) before switching to "real
>selective". I will try later to search 4 and 5 moves (8 and 10 plys) by brute
>force before starting "real selective".
>
>Cheers,
>Leonid.

And according to Chest there is no mate in 9 (2 hours on K7/600, 350 MB hash).
Since the EBF has increased up to above 18 in the last 2 depthes, it may
take some time for Chest to complete depth 10.  I'll follow-up, then.
But so far it appears to be a mate-in-10 for sure.

Cheers,
Heiner
>



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