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Subject: Re: Mate in 21 !! A challenge for your programs in 2010 !

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 11:03:11 04/19/03

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On April 17, 2003 at 13:56:12, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 17, 2003 at 13:02:01, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>> 8/8/8/8/8/3Q4/pp1KPPP1/k6n w - - 0 1
>>
>>White to move and mate in 21
>
>I disagree with the subject :-) Yace Paderborn, P4 2.53 GHz, 300 MB hash:
>
>[nodes      time    score depth]
> 112093397  1:55.5   7.54 18.  1. Qd4 Kb1 2. Qe4+ Ka1 3. Qe5 Kb1 4. Qf5+ Ka1
>                               5. Qf6 Kb1 6. Qg6+ Ka1 7. Qg7 Ng3 8. fxg3 Kb1
>                               9. Qg6+ Ka1 10. Qg7 Kb1 11. Qg6+ Ka1 12. Qg7
>                               {1081}
> 113036366  1:56.3   8.28 19++ 1. Qd4 Kb1 2. Qe4+ Ka1 3. Qe5 Kb1 4. Qf5+ Ka1
>                               5. Qf6 Kb1 6. Qg6+ Ka1H 7. Qg7H Ng3H 8. fxg3H
>                               Kb1H 9. Qg6+H Ka1H 10. Qg7H Kb1H 11. Qg6+H Ka1H
>                               12. Qg7HR {1081}
> 113036610  1:56.3  Mat21 19++ 1. Qd4 Kb1 2. Qe4+ Ka1H 3. Qe5H Kb1H 4. Qf5+H
>                               Ka1H 5. Qf6H Kb1H 6. Qg6+H Ka1H 7. Qg7H Kb1H 8.
>                               Qh7+H Ka1H 9. Qh8H Nxf2H 10. Kc2H Nd1H 11. Kb3H
>                               Kb1H 12. Qh7+H Ka1H 13. Qg7H Kb1H 14. Qg6+H
>                               Ka1H 15. Qf6H Kb1H 16. Qf5+H Ka1H 17. Qe5H Kb1H
>                               18. Qe4+H Ka1H 19. Qd4H Nc3H 20. Qxc3H {HT}
>                               {1001}
> 388090526  5:45.3  Mat21 19t  1. Qd4 Kb1 2. Qe4+ Ka1 3. Qe5 Kb1 4. Qf5+ Ka1
>                               5. Qf6 Kb1 6. Qg6+ Ka1 7. Qg7 Kb1 8. Qh7+ Ka1
>                               9. Qh8 Nxf2 10. Kc2 Nd1 11. Kb3 Kb1 12. Qh7+
>                               Ka1 13. Qg7 Kb1 14. Qg6+ Ka1 15. Qf6 Kb1 16.
>                               Qf5+ Ka1H 17. Qe5H {HT} {661}
> 414124889  6:13.5  Mat21 19.  1. Qd4 Kb1 2. Qe4+ Ka1 3. Qe5 Kb1 4. Qf5+ Ka1
>                               5. Qf6 Kb1 6. Qg6+ Ka1 7. Qg7 Kb1 8. Qh7+ Ka1
>                               9. Qh8 Nxf2 10. Kc2 Nd1 11. Kb3 Kb1 12. Qh7+
>                               Ka1 13. Qg7 Kb1 14. Qg6+ Ka1 15. Qf6 Kb1 16.
>                               Qf5+ Ka1 17. Qe5 {HT} {661}
>
>Not the whole main line is shown, due to hash tables.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

I tried Chest with it, but it appears to be completely out of range for Chest.
After seeing:

FEN: 8/8/8/8/8/3Q4/pp1KPPP1/k6n w - -
analysing (mate in 21 moves):
#  1      0.00s                 0kN           0.87          1-         0
#  2      0.00s                 0kN           1.00          1-         0
#  3      0.00s                 1kN [ 10.59]  0.97         36-         0
% EGTB found tables for max 5 pieces
% EGTB uses 3728.4K memory internally
#  4      0.06s                 5kN [  9.74]  1.37        664-         0
#  5      0.16s [  2.67]       30kN [  5.66]  1.94       3417-         0
#  6      0.69s [  4.31]      173kN [  5.79]  2.50      17304-         0
#  7      3.20s [  4.64]      775kN [  4.49]  3.12      82727-         0
#  8     12.04s [  3.76]     2789kN [  3.60]  3.92     300494-         0
#  9     43.50s [  3.61]     9463kN [  3.39]  4.94    1052583-       354
# 10    183.04s [  4.21]    36857kN [  3.90]  5.35    4136052-   1029999
# 11   1011.99s [  5.53]   194331kN [  5.27]  4.78   22530829-  19331596
# 12   7219.60s [  7.13]  1354623kN [  6.97]  4.67  157277507- 154078274
# 13  76711.02s [ 10.63]  9846070kN [  7.27]  4.51 1665461526-1662262293

I stopped it.  (Athlon 1500+, 128MB hash, 30 MB egtb-cache, some 5-piece
tables).

Congrats for Yace!

Cheers,
Heiner



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