Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Ruffian finds Mate in 11 in under 3 minutes ...

Author: F. Huber

Date: 02:07:05 01/19/05

Go up one level in this thread


On January 19, 2005 at 03:38:25, Richard A. Fowell wrote:

>This position is from Jack Peter's chess column in last Sunday's Los Angeles
>Times:
>http://www.latimes.com/features/puzzles/chess/?track=mainnav-chess
>
>[D]rnbq1r1k/pppp1p1p/3n1Pp1/6N1/2B2Q2/8/PB3PPP/R4K1R w - -
>
>On my 867 MHz Mac G4, Ruffian 2.1 takes less than three minutes to claim Mate in
>11, with
>
>+mate 11 18/2 2:25 73712484 nodes 506905 nps
>
>1. Nxf7 Rxf7 2. Bxf7 Qf8 3. Bxg6 Nf7 4. Qh4 Qg8 5. Bxf7 Qxf7 6. Re1 h5 7. Re8
>Kh7 8. Qe4 Qg6 9. Qe7 Kh6 10. Bc1 Qg5 11. Qg7
>
>MacChess, and HIARCS take more 12 minutes to settle on Nxf7, and more than 20
>minutes
>to claim a Mate score, and even then take longer to claim Mate in 11. Fruit
>2.0.0 does not
>even find the key move in 25 minutes.
>
>How do others fare - and is this really Mate in 11?
>
>-Richard

Hi Richard,

who do you think is the ´mate king´ once again? :-)

Yes, TheKing - it even finds a #9 in 01:25 on my slow Celeron/400:

TheKing 3.33:
   3	00:00	         989	24.725	+0,42	1.Dh4 h5 2.Td1 Kg8
   3	00:00	       1.394	19.914	+0,43	1.Td1 Sxc4 2.Dxc4 Kg8
   3	00:00	       2.152	21.520	+0,78	1.La3 Sxc4 2.Lxf8
   4	00:00	       4.067	20.335	+0,59	1.La3 Kg8 2.Td1 h6 3.Lxd6 cxd6
   5	00:00	      12.750	22.767	+0,59	1.La3 Kg8 2.Td1 h6 3.Lxd6 cxd6
   5	00:01	      30.621	26.626	+2,62	1.Sxh7 Sf5 2.Sxf8 Dxf8 3.Kg1 d6
   6	00:01	      39.218	27.425	+2,72	1.Sxh7 Sf5 2.Sxf8 Dxf8 3.Td1 Sc6 4.Dxc7
   7	00:02	      62.102	29.293	+2,63	1.Sxh7 Sf5 2.Sxf8 Dxf8 3.Dxc7 Sc6 4.Df4 d6
   8	00:03	     118.370	34.510	+2,69	1.Sxh7 Sf5 2.Sxf8 Dxf8 3.Dxc7 Sc6 4.Df4 Dd6
5.Dxd6 Sxd6
   8	00:11	     475.963	43.269	+3,96	1.Sxf7+ Txf7 2.Lxf7 Df8 3.Lxg6 Sf7 4.Dh4
Dg8 5.Te1 d5 6.Te8
   9	00:17	     843.219	47.505	+7,00	1.Sxf7+ Txf7 2.Lxf7 Df8 3.Lxg6 Sf7 4.Lxf7
Dxf7 5.Te1 Kg8 6.Dg4+ Dg6 7.Te8+ Kf7 8.Dxg6+ hxg6 9.Txc8
  10	00:33	   1.749.329	52.516	+7,53	1.Sxf7+ Txf7 2.Lxf7 Df8 3.Lxg6 Sf7 4.Lxf7
c5 5.Te1 b6 6.Te8 La6+ 7.Kg1
  10	01:00	   3.327.322	55.298	+99,81	1.Ld3 Kg8 2.Sxh7 De8 3.Dh6 De2+ 4.Kxe2
Te8+ 5.Kf3 Te3+ 6.fxe3 Se8 7.Lxg6 fxg6 8.Dxg6+ Kh8 9.f7+ Sg7 10.Lxg7+
  11	01:25	   4.966.588	58.402	+99,83	1.Ld3 Tg8 2.Dh4 h5 3.Lxg6 fxg6 4.f7+ Tg7
5.Dd4 Sf5 6.De5 De7 7.Dxe7 Sxe7 8.f8D+ Sg8 9.Dxg7+
  12	02:28	   9.275.354	62.397	+99,83	1.Ld3 Tg8 2.Dh4 h5 3.Lxg6 fxg6 4.f7+ Tg7
5.Dd4 Sf5 6.De5 De7 7.Dxe7 Sxe7 8.f8D+ Sg8 9.Dxg7+

Best regards,
Franz.




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.