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Subject: Re: Mate in 10 or 11.....End Game Study For Engines

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 23:59:47 07/17/04

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On July 17, 2004 at 16:17:18, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On July 17, 2004 at 10:27:34, Rob Basham wrote:
>
>>[D]1k6/1P6/K7/8/P7/2P5/8/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>The new Crazy Bishop (oo52) plays 1. a5 and
>>ann. mate in just 15 seconds!
>>
>>See if your engine can do that well...!
>>
>>
>>
>>P3/850
>
>I don't know how Crazy Bishop did it that quickly but
>suspect one-move-response extension or singular, which
>I don't have presently. If someone thinks it is something
>else, let us all know.

I do neither of these extensions. My only extensions are checks, recaptures, and
pushing a pawn on the 7th rank. No checks in the QS. A lot of my speed comes
from my high number of nodes per second, I guess. Here is my output (P41.7GHz,
100Mb hash, 1.2M nodes/second, no EGTB):

00:00:00,00         0 ------ Depth = 1
00:00:00,00         1   +397 1. Kb6
00:00:00,00         4   +411 1. a5
00:00:00,00         5   +411 1. a5
00:00:00,00         6 ------ Depth = 2
00:00:00,00        10   +908 1. a5 Kc7
00:00:00,00        19 ------ Depth = 3
00:00:00,00        36   +899 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7
00:00:00,00        63 ------ Depth = 4
00:00:00,00        94  +1107 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6
00:00:00,00       126  +1110 1. c4
00:00:00,00       150  +1110 1. c4
00:00:00,01       151 ------ Depth = 5
00:00:00,01       237  +1111 1. c4 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kc6
00:00:00,01       350 ------ Depth = 6
00:00:00,01       483  +1116 1. c4 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kc6 3. b8=Q Kc5
00:00:00,01       652 ------ Depth = 7
00:00:00,01      1021  +1112 1. c4 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kc6 3. b8=Q Kc5 4. Qc7+ Kd4
00:00:00,02      1384  +1114 1. a5
00:00:00,02      2076  +1118 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. a6
00:00:00,02      2077 ------ Depth = 8
00:00:00,02      4232  +1122 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Qb5+ Ke4 5.
                             a6
00:00:00,03      5148 ------ Depth = 9
00:00:00,03     13370  +1125 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Qb5+ Ke4 5.
                             a6 Ke3 6. c4
00:00:00,04     16914 ------ Depth = 10
00:00:00,08     68772  +1782 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Kb6 Kc4 5.
                             a6 Kxc3 6. a7 Kd4
00:00:00,09     78355 ------ Depth = 11
00:00:00,16    169742  +1891 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Kb6 Kc4 5.
                             Qc7+
00:00:00,18    203222 ------ Depth = 12
00:00:00,41    492050  +1895 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Kb6 Kc4 5.
                             Qc7+ Kd3
00:00:00,48    591775 ------ Depth = 13
00:00:00,96   1199684  +1902 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Kb6 Kc4 5.
                             Qe5
00:00:01,16   1462616 ------ Depth = 14
00:00:02,40   3005472  +1910 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. a6 Ke4 5.
                             Qb4+
00:00:02,86   3565677 ------ Depth = 15
00:00:06,00   7284759  +1921 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Qf4 Ke6 5.
                             Kb6 Ke7 6. Kc6
00:00:06,91   8342588 ------ Depth = 16
00:00:07,05   8510340 +32720 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Qf4 Ke6 5.
                             Kb6 Ke7 6. Qg5+ Kf7 7. a6 Kf8 8. a7
00:00:07,05   8510340 ------ Depth = 16
00:00:10,80  12505995 +32740 1. a5 Kc7 2. Ka7 Kd6 3. b8=Q+ Kd5 4. Qf4 Ke6 5.
                             Kb6 Ke7 6. Qg5+ Kf7 7. a6 Kf8 8. a7 Kf7 9. a8=Q
                             Ke6 10. Qad5#



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