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Subject: Re: Mate in 12 challenge for CHEST

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:33:11 10/18/02

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On October 18, 2002 at 14:42:55, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On October 17, 2002 at 01:09:45, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>And other programs as well.
>>
>>[D]rnbQKbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBqkBNR w - -
>>
>>Alybadix 2002 solves this in unbelievable 21,3 sec (Athlon 1466 Mhz). Look at
>>http://www.saunalahti.fi/~iblom/alybadix/ex2002.htm
>>
>>Jouni
>>
>>PS. Solution of course Nc3!
>
>That is correct.  Chest on Athlon 1500+ with 128 MB hash needs 2 hours:
>#  5      0.03s [  3.00]        5kN [  4.90]  1.36        337-         0
>#  6      0.09s [  3.00]       19kN [  3.57]  1.68       1164-         0
>#  7      0.37s [  4.11]       73kN [  3.89]  1.93       6250-         0
>#  8      1.92s [  5.19]      386kN [  5.29]  2.32      32241-         0
>#  9     17.29s [  9.01]     3472kN [  8.98]  2.32     312342-         0
># 10    110.95s [  6.42]    22525kN [  6.49]  2.53    1893435-     14248
># 11   1229.78s [ 11.08]   229968kN [ 10.21]  3.04   20799132-  17599899
># 12   7333.75s [  5.96]  1405765kN [  6.11]  3.05  117945772- 114746539
>
>PV: Nc3 Nf6+ Kxf7 Kxf1 Nf3+ Kxg2 Rxd1 Nc6 Rg1+ Kxf2 Nd1+ Kxe2 Nd4+ Nxd4 Qxc7 d6
>Qc4+ Kf3 Qd3+ Kf4 Qe3+ Kf5 Rg5#
>
>I'm not sure whether the comparison with Alybadix is completely fair.
>On that web page I read (in red) /Q3+ which seems to indicate a search
>restriction.  Hence I suspect a shorter mate is not absolutely ruled out
>by Alybadix.

I understood from the site that it means that white has to play only checks or a
threat of mate in at most 3 moves.

Uri



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