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Subject: Re: new ChestUCI-Ver.2.8 (2 interesting enhancements)

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 10:20:27 11/15/03

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On November 15, 2003 at 12:37:33, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On November 15, 2003 at 10:56:31, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>Hi Chest-friends!
>>
>>Although I was rather sure, that I´ve reached the end of my ChestUCI
>>development,
>>in the last week I had two interesting ideas of further improvements, which I
>>now have implemented and want to be available to other Chest users too:
>>
>>1) now whenever Chest has found a solution, ChestUCI immediately shows the key
>>mo
>>ve,
>>while Chest is going on to search for possible further solutions!
>>So you can see earlier, if (and when) a solution is found, and the result is
>>bett
>>er
>>comparable with other programs.
>>(Also, if this solution or key move would be enough information, you can stop
>>the
>>whole calculation at this time)
>>
>>2) there´s now a new engine option ´AllSolutions´: (set to ON by default)
>>If you switch OFF this option, Chest only searches for the FIRST solution of a
>>pr
>>oblem,
>>displays it and then stops immediately!
>>This can reduce the complete calculation process dramatically, if you are either
>>interested only in ANY solution, or you know for sure that only ONE solution
>>exis
>>ts.
>>
>>So I hope, that I didn´t promise too much - at least _I_ find these 2 features
>>very practically. ;-)
>>
>>This new ChestUCI-Ver.2.8 is downloadable (as usual) from Alex´ UCI-homepage:
>>http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/Chest/chest.html
>>
>>My best wishes to all chess friends,
>>Franz.
>
>Excellent enhancements ..thanks

here's your nontrivial mate probelm solved by Crafty.

The Chessbase GUI shows an inaccurate while running a modified Crafty as an UCI
engine.  Outside of the Chessbase, Crafty shows correct the mate-in-9.

New game
3Q4/5q1k/4ppp1/2Kp1N1B/RR6/3P1r2/4nP1b/3b4 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Crafty 19.04 SE:

1.Bxf3 g5 2.Qe7 Qxe7+ 3.Nxe7 Be5
  +-  (4.45)   Depth: 4   00:00:00
1.Bxf3 g5 2.Qe7 Qxe7+ 3.Nxe7 Be5
  +-  (4.45)   Depth: 4   00:00:00
1.Bxf3
  +-  (4.85)   Depth: 5   00:00:00
1.Bxf3 g5 2.Qe7 Qxe7+ 3.Nxe7 Be5
  +-  (4.84)   Depth: 5   00:00:00
1.Bxf3 d4 2.Bxe2 Bxe2 3.Rxd4 Be5 4.Rh4+ Bh5 5.f4
  +-  (5.11)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  128kN
1.Bxf3 d4 2.Bxe2 Bxe2 3.Rxd4 Be5 4.Rh4+ Bh5 5.f4
  +-  (5.11)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  365kN
1.Bxf3
  +-  (5.51)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  424kN
1.Bxf3 Nf4 2.Rxf4 Bxf4 3.Bxd1 e5 4.Nd6
  +-  (6.06)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  651kN
1.Rb7 Qxb7 2.Bxg6+ Kxg6 3.Qg8+ Kxf5 4.Qg4+ Ke5 5.Qh5+ Rf5 6.f4+ Bxf4 7.Qxe2+
Bxe2 8.Re4+ dxe4 9.d4#
  +-  (#8)   Depth: 7   00:00:01  1086kN
1.Rb7 Qxb7 2.Bxg6+ Kxg6 3.Qg8+ Kxf5 4.Qg4+ Ke5 5.Qh5+ Rf5 6.f4+ Bxf4 7.Qxe2+
Bxe2 8.Re4+ dxe4 9.d4#

(Byrne, Secane, PA USA 15.11.2003)




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