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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:41:45 12/13/02

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On December 13, 2002 at 16:47:54, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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 ?

No

It is not iteration 1 but iteration 9.

1 is only the brute force depth that is used(by chessmaster definition every
program that is using null move pruning without zugzwang detection is searching
depth 1 because if there are moves with no threat they are not searched to more
than depth 1 by chessmaster's definition)

chessmaster often search depth 1 in the middle game because in the middle game
it does not care for zugzwang detection.

Uri



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