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Subject: Re: Mate in 10

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 15:34:31 12/03/02

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On December 03, 2002 at 17:25:27, leonid wrote:

>On December 02, 2002 at 12:24:45, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>On December 02, 2002 at 12:07:23, Art Basham wrote:
>>
>>>This is a good test for portables!
>>>
>>>White plays Rxh6+...and mates in 10...!
>>>
>>>[D]3r3k/p4Qp1/7p/1b1Bp3/4Pp2/7R/4nqPP/4R2K w - -
>>>
>>>Saitek Travel Champion takes just 5 ply and finds it in 17 sec.
>>>
>>>Novag Amber takes about 25 sec.
>>>
>>>Fidelity Par Excellence (5 Mhz) takes 6 ply ....3 min. and 21 sec.
>>>
>>>Fidelity Mach 3 (16 Mhz) finds it in 27.5 sec.
>>
>>The Baron on a portable :-) computer (Pentium II-500) takes 3 seconds (7 ply) to
>>find Rxh6 and 9 seconds (10 ply) to report the mate
>
>I just wanted to find how long it will take to solve this position on Pentium
>kind of computers when I came to Your response. Still, if somebody will come
>with Chessmaster's time it will be curious for me to see.
>
>LLchess mate solver find mate in 10 moves deep, by selective search, in zero
>seconds. Zero - less then 0.055 sec. Computer is Celeron 600Mhz. No hash.
>
>By brute force this position can take pretty long time for my program, since
>branching factor did dramatic jump between 7 and 8 move. Time of response for  8
>moves was 1 min 48 sec. I stopped right there.

Oh, now I dare to post the Chest timing ;-)  (Athlon 1500+, 128MB hash):

#  6      0.03s [  3.00]        6kN [  3.36]  1.73        367-         0
#  7      0.15s [  5.00]       28kN [  4.79]  1.81       2153-         0
#  8      1.49s [  9.93]      324kN [ 11.72]  1.90      24634-         0
#  9     14.13s [  9.48]     3246kN [ 10.02]  2.32     241594-         0
# 10   1168.71s [ 82.71]   259891kN [ 80.08]  2.90   17547590-  14348357

So, it jumped also, but not before the last depth.  Well, a BIG jump.
That are 19.5 minutes total.

PV: Rxh6+ gxh6 Qf6+ Kh7 Qe7+ Kh8 Qxd8+ Kg7 Qg8+ Kf6 Qf8+ Kg5 Qg7+ Kh5 Bf7+ Kh4
Qxh6+ Kg4 Be6#

The key move is unique.

Cheers,
Heiner



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