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Subject: Re: Dann, did anyone get back to you how long it took to solve these ??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 18:49:42 12/10/04

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On December 10, 2004 at 21:47:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 10, 2004 at 21:06:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 10, 2004 at 02:17:59, Les Fernandez wrote:
>>
>>>On December 10, 2004 at 00:09:02, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 09, 2004 at 23:57:26, Les Fernandez wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 09, 2004 at 00:41:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Here are results for default movei for the first 11 positions in the seond set
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Note that movei was not designed to solve mates and I am sure it could do
>>>>>>clearly better than it in case that it was designed for that purpose.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It gets a mate score in less than 62 seconds for everyone of them.
>>>>>>The big number is the number of nodes and I also gave translation of the score
>>>>>>to distance to mate.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>11 9987  371  2214115 mate in 7 d8g8
>>>>>>14 9985 5462 28819188 mate in 8 b5a4
>>>>>>14 9985 6195 32582992 mate in 8 b4a4
>>>>>>14 9985 5337 27793757 mate in 8 c4a4
>>>>>>14 9985 5728 29850523 mate in 8 d4a4
>>>>>>14 9985 6157 32404314 mate in 8 b3a4
>>>>>>14 9985 5748 30085900 mate in 8 c2a4
>>>>>>11 9987  548  2972896 mate in 7 e8e5
>>>>>>9  9987  195   978781 mate in 7 e7e1
>>>>>>6  9993    6    22984 mate in 4 e5a5
>>>>>>9  9987  160   836546 mate in 7 e4e1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Uri,
>>>>>
>>>>>First thanks for giving it a go.  What hardware are you running them on and do
>>>>>you plan on running all of them?  It is of interest to me to know the total time
>>>>>it took to solve the set, but understand that is is rather time consuming.
>>>>>
>>>>>Talk to you soon,
>>>>>
>>>>>Les
>>>>
>>>>I used A3000
>>>>I will certainly not run all the positions manually.
>>>>
>>>>I may do it automatically not based on fixed time but based on stopping when it
>>>>finds mate but I need first to finish some tool to analyze epd file.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Hi Uri,
>>>
>>>I certainly can appreciate not doing it manually.  Listen perhaps when you have
>>>time you can just look at the first 10 positions of the second set of positions
>>>since they were much more difficult.  If you have trouble finding them I can
>>>always repost them.  Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>>Les
>>
>>my results are for them and not for the easy positions.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I can add that I now test the easy positions automatically and it seems that
>part of them are not so easy.
>
>I expected based on Antony that movei on A1000 will solve all of them in a short
>time but it does not do it.
>
>I implemented function to analyze epd and not leave a position before mate
>unless very long time was used and I test it with this function.
>
>The fact that there are a lot of easy problems does not mean that all of them
>are easy and solving all the positions on p233 in less than a minute(not one of
>them) is clearly a good result.
>
>Movei was not designed for finding mates and I disabled many extensions when the
>side to move has a big advantage but I do not think that by only changing
>parameters I can get all the positions in less than a minute.
>
>Uri

practically I have not many extensions and except check and mate threat I use
almost no extensions but maybe not disabling check and mate threat extensions
could help to find it faster.

Uri



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