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Subject: Re: White mates in 6...

Author: leonid

Date: 19:53:36 10/22/03

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On October 22, 2003 at 20:43:29, Steven J. Brann wrote:

>On October 22, 2003 at 19:19:42, leonid wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2003 at 15:23:18, Darren Rushton wrote:
>>
>>>[D] 1nk5/p2p1K2/b1p2B1N/1p6/1PP5/8/2P3pQ/8 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>sorry for the error!
>>
>>Your position make me feel very shameful about my program. Before I was certain
>>that it contain no mistake in basic logic that look for mate. It was not so this
>>time. It found nothing in 6 and 7 moves, in brute force search. Only looking
>>into Your second message I found what was the problem. Initial position was
>>wrong. It was big relief for me!
>>
>>Position as indicated was a mate in 6. LLches was able to solve it only by brute
>>force.
>>
>>Leonid.
>
>Chessmaster 9000 on a P4 3.0G machine with default personality SS=12 and 128MB
>hash solves it quickly.
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	9.84	382		1.cxb5 Bxb5 2.Qxg2 Bc4+ 3.Ke7
>0:00	1/4	9.80	1506		1.cxb5 Bxb5 2.Qxg2 Bc4+ 3.Ke7 Na6
>0:00	1/4	9.92	1758		1.Qxg2 bxc4 2.Nf5 Kb7 3.Qg3
>0:00	1/4	10.44	7593		1.Nf5 d5 2.cxd5 cxd5 3.Ne7+ Kb7
>					4.Qxg2
>0:00	1/5	11.01	36506		1.Nf5 Kb7 2.c5 Ka8 3.Qxg2 Bb7 4.Qg3
>0:00	1/6	10.93	56789		1.Nf5 Kb7 2.c5 Ka8 3.Qxg2 Bc8 4.Nd6
>0:00	1/7	Mate08	311718		1.Nf5 g1=Q 2.Qh8+ Kb7 3.Be5 d6
>					4.Nxd6+ Ka8 5.Nb7 Qf2+ 6.Ke6 Qf5+
>					7.Kxf5 Bxb7 8.Qxb8#
>0:00	1/8	Mate08	332292		1.Nf5 g1=Q 2.Qh8+ Kb7 3.Be5 d6
>					4.Nxd6+ Ka8 5.Nb7 Qf2+ 6.Ke6 Qf5+
>					7.Kxf5 Bxb7 8.Qxb8#
>0:01	2/9	Mate08	513429		1.Nf5 g1=Q 2.Qh8+ Kb7 3.Be5 d6
>					4.Nxd6+ Ka8 5.Nb7 Qf2+ 6.Ke6 Qf5+
>					7.Kxf5 Bxb7 8.Qxb8#
>0:02	3/10	Mate08	1264563		1.Nf5 g1=Q 2.Qh8+ Kb7 3.Be5 d6
>					4.Nxd6+ Ka8 5.Nb7 Qf2+ 6.Ke6 Qf5+
>					7.Kxf5 Bxb7 8.Qxb8#
>0:05	4/11	Mate08	2924355		1.Nf5 g1=Q 2.Qh8+ Kb7 3.Be5 d6
>					4.Nxd6+ Ka8 5.Nb7 Qf2+ 6.Ke6 Qf5+
>					7.Kxf5 Bxb7 8.Qxb8#
>0:15	5/12	Mate08	8275087		1.Nf5 g1=Q 2.Qh8+ Kb7 3.Be5 d6
>					4.Nxd6+ Ka8 5.Nb7 Qf2+ 6.Ke6 Qf5+
>					7.Kxf5 Bxb7 8.Qxb8#
>0:24	5/12	Mate06	13981583	1.Qd6 g1=Q 2.Be5 Qf2+ 3.Kg7 Qg1+
>					4.Kh7 Qb6 5.c5 Qd8 6.Qxb8#
>0:27	6/13	Mate06	15774918	1.Qd6 g1=Q 2.Be5 Qf2+ 3.Kg7 Qg1+
>					4.Kh7 Qb6 5.c5 Qd8 6.Qxb8#
>0:44	7/14	Mate06	27043922	1.Qd6 g1=Q 2.Be5 Qf2+ 3.Kg7 Qg1+
>					4.Kh7 Qb6 5.c5 Qd8 6.Qxb8#
>1:18	8/15	Mate06	49749368	1.Qd6 g1=Q 2.Be5 Qf2+ 3.Kg7 Qg1+
>					4.Kh7 Qb6 5.c5 Qd8 6.Qxb8#
>2:10	9/16	Mate06	81537159	1.Qd6 g1=Q 2.Be5 Qf2+ 3.Kg7 Qg1+
>					4.Kh7 Qb6 5.c5 Qd8 6.Qxb8#

It is possible that Chessmaster went on this position even more quickly than
mine. For mine it took 95 seconds to find its first mate, 6 moves deep. Celeron
600Mhz. No hash.

Leonid.

>Steve



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