Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: new ChestUCI Ver.3.3 - correction and new record

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 10:08:00 02/16/04

Go up one level in this thread


On February 16, 2004 at 12:25:54, F. Huber wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I´ve just found out, that the last position in the included file ´Mate.epd´
>seems to have an error - there should be a white pawn at e4!
>
>So please delete this line and replace it with the following correct line:
>
>8/kPp5/2P3p1/p1P1p1P1/2PpPp2/3p1p2/3P1P2/5K2 w - - bm #50; 00:00 @ C-/K2/P2/X6;
>
>At the same time this corrected position is the new Chest record -
>a mate in 50 in 0 sec!
>
>Try it with the following settings:
>ProblemType=Special-Mate
>ChecksOnly=off
>KingMobility=2
>PieceLimit=2
>MaxMoves=6
>
>ChestUCI Ver.3.3  UCI:
>
>CPU: Celeron 400MHz
>FEN: 8/kPp5/2P3p1/p1P1p1P1/2PpPp2/3p1p2/3P1P2/5K2 w - -
>Search for Special-Mate [C-/K2/P2/X6] in 50 ...  (Hash=48MB)
>50   00:01  M50  1.Ke1
>Search completed ...  (Time=0.93s)
>Special-Mate in 50 found !  (00:00)
>1.Ke1 Kb8 2.Kd1 Ka7 3.Kc1 Kb8 4.Kb1 Ka7 5.Kb2 Kb8 6.Kb3 Ka7 7.Ka4 Kb8
>8.Kxa5 Ka7 9.Ka4 Kb8 10.Ka3 Ka7 11.Kb2 Kb8 12.Kc1 Ka7 13.Kd1 Kb8 14.Ke1 Ka7
>15.Kf1 Kb8 16.Kg1 Ka7 17.Kh2 Kb8 18.Kh3 Ka7 19.Kg4 Kb8 20.Kxf3 Ka7 21.Kg2 Kb8
>22.Kf1 Ka7 23.Ke1 Kb8 24.Kd1 Ka7 25.Kc1 Kb8 26.Kb2 Ka7 27.Kb3 Kb8 28.Kb4 Ka7
>29.Kb5 Kb8 30.Ka6 f3 31.Ka5 Ka7 32.Kb5 Kb8 33.Kb4 Ka7 34.Kb3 Kb8 35.Kb2 Ka7
>36.Kc1 Kb8 37.Kd1 Ka7 38.Ke1 Kb8 39.Kf1 Ka7 40.Kg1 Kb8 41.Kh2 Ka7 42.Kg3 Kb8
>43.Kxf3 Ka7 44.Kg4 Kb8 45.f4 Ka7 46.fxe5 Kb8 47.e6 Ka7 48.e7 Ka6 49.b8Q Ka5
>50.Qb5#
>1 Solution  (Special-Mate in 50)
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Wow!  I'm impressed!

The normal brute force search (currently) is completely hopeless here:
it reaches depths around 25 but nothing remotely near the needed 50.
Although it already uses a special heuristic, invented for exactly _this_
very problem.

Thanks for making Chest look much more powerful!  :-)

Cheers,
Heiner



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.