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Subject: Re: Good Test for the CM9000...!

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 13:47:54 12/13/02

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On December 12, 2002 at 15:13:10, John Merlino wrote:

>On December 12, 2002 at 14:54:03, Art Basham wrote:
>
>>Hi John........are you there?
>>How long does it take your program to ann. mate at move one?
>>
>>I think this is a forced nate in 13, but not sure...:-)
>>
>>[D]1r3k1r/6pp/p3Qp2/P7/q1P5/8/1n4PP/1R3R1K w - - 0 1
>>
>>White plays 1. Rxf6+
>
>Not long at all. CM9000, on a P3-733, announces Mate in 14 after 18 seconds, and
>does not improve on it with the two subsequent PVs.
>
>This is not very difficult, as all of White's moves are checks....
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	0.00	5354		1.Qd6+ Kf7 2.Qc7+ Kg6 3.Qg3+ Kf7
>					4.Qc7+
>0:00	1/4	0.00	13640		1.Qd6+ Kf7 2.Qc7+ Kg6 3.Qg3+ Kf7
>					4.Qc7+
>0:00	1/4	5.13	24565		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf7 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Qe5+ Kd8 6.Qxb8+
>					Kd7 7.Qxh8
>0:00	1/5	4.96	49779		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Qe5+ Kd8 6.Qxb8+
>					Kd7 7.Qxh8 Qc2
>0:01	1/6	5.19	101046		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Qe5+ Kd8 6.Qxb8+
>					Kd7 7.Qxh8 Qxc4 8.Qxh7+ Kd6
>0:02	1/7	5.38	253295		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Re1+ Kf8 6.Qf4+
>					Kg8 7.Qxb8+ Kf7 8.Qxh8 Qc2 9.Qe8+
>					Kg7
>0:06	1/8	7.47	762540		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Qe5+ Kd8 6.Qxb8+
>					Kd7 7.Qxb2 Qxc4 8.Rd1+ Ke6 9.Re1+
>					Kd5 10.Qxh8
>0:18	1/9	Mate14	2176958		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Re1+ Kf8 6.Qf4+
>					Kg8 7.Qxb8+ Kf7 8.Qc7+ Kg8 9.Qd8+
>					Qe8 10.Qxe8+ Kg7 11.Qe7+ Kg8 12.Qg5+
>					Kf7 13.Re7+ Kf8 14.Qg7#


CM sees a mate in 14 in iteration no 1 ?
Usually I'd say it's insane extending the search that much.
However knowing the playing strength of CM, I can only say that's unbelievably
impressive.

Uli



>0:58	2/10	Mate14	7253333		1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Re1+ Kf8 6.Qf4+
>					Kg8 7.Qxb8+ Kf7 8.Qc7+ Kg8 9.Qd8+
>					Qe8 10.Qxe8+ Kg7 11.Qe7+ Kg6 12.Qd6+
>					Kf7 13.Re7+ Kg8 14.Qd8#
>3:53	3/11	Mate14	29537449	1.Rxf6+ gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qg5+
>					Kf8 4.Rf1+ Ke8 5.Re1+ Kf8 6.Qf4+
>					Kg8 7.Qxb8+ Kf7 8.Qc7+ Kg8 9.Qd8+
>					Qe8 10.Qxe8+ Kg7 11.Qe7+ Kg6 12.Qd6+
>					Kf7 13.Re7+ Kf8 14.Qd8#
>
>jm



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