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Subject: Re: Does this position blow up your program?

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 14:33:26 12/23/02

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On December 23, 2002 at 17:17:24, Robert Pope wrote:

>On December 23, 2002 at 15:16:44, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>[d]R6R/3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4Q/Q4Q2/pp1Q4/kBNN1KB1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>So far , every Palm program and Chess Tiger have fatal errors with this
>>position.  Supossedly, this is the largest number of  possible legal number of
>>moves, 218, available from one position in chess.  If you can prove this wrong,
>>you'll go down in History.
>>
>>http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachzahl2_e.html
>
>
>Can I get some people to run perft numbers on this position?  Beaches correctly
>says 218 legal moves, and finds xxx.  But then it gives these odd perft
>statistics:
>
>perft 1: 218
>perft 2: 99 ?????  Maybe because for many of the 218 moves, no response is
>possible?
>perft 3: 19073
>perft 4: 85043

Yes, Chest agrees completely:

FEN: R6R/3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4Q/Q4Q2/pp1Q4/kBNN1KB1 w - -
Counting width of legal tree, 4 plies deep...
Time (user) = 0.05 sec
dep          #nodes     quot        sum nodes
  0               1 [  0.000]               1
  1             218 [218.000]             219
  2              99 [  0.454]             318
  3           19073 [192.657]           19391
  4           85043 [  4.459]          104434

Cheers,
Heiner



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