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Subject: Re: Tasc R30 faster than Shredder 9 on a modern PC?

Author: F. Huber

Date: 04:39:59 03/31/05

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On March 31, 2005 at 06:52:11, Martin Slowik wrote:

>Well, of course a tad provocative.  :))
>In general the answer might be negative...
>
>OK, but it's true at least if you compare its analysis to R30's solution on a
>special mate level:
>
>J. Kohtz, C.Kockelkorn, Palamède, 1865.
>Mate in 5.
>
>[d]8/8/2B1N3/3rp3/4k2K/7Q/2r3Pn/1b1N4 w - - 0 1
>
>Shredder is not able to give the correct answer on the infinite level on my
>machine within a reasonable time frame (Is there a special mate solving level? I
>haven't found any). After showing him the first moves and going back, he agrees
>and announces mate in 5. A sort of revenge :)), when the programs show me the
>mates in three I missed in my games...
>
>Tasc R30 needs 48 sec on the #5 level.
>
>Does your favourite program find the correct line without your help?
>
>Wood Pusher Regards,
>Martin
>
>P.S. ChestUCI v3.9 (Search Mode: Automatic) needs 46 sec on my computer (Athlon
>1900+). Not that much faster.

Hi Martin,

what a crazy idea to use the ´Automatic´ mode for a #5! ;-)

The _hardest_ #5 that I have in my mate-collection takes Chest no longer than
10 sec in ´brute force´- mode on my _very_ slow Celeron/400 -
and so also this mate is solved _much_ faster than your 46 sec:

ChestUCI Ver.4.0:
CPU: Celeron 400MHz
FEN: 8/8/2B1N3/3rp3/4k2K/7Q/2r3Pn/1b1N4 w - -
Search for Mate in 10 ...  (Hash=49MB)
   5	00:02	      56.759	29.561	+M5	1.Kh5
Search completed ...  (Time=2.41s)
Mate in 5 found !  (00:02)
1.Kh5 Ba2 2.Kh6 Bb3 3.Kh7 Bc4 4.Kh8 Nf3 5.Qh7#
1 Solution  (Mate in 5)

So one conclusion is:
even if using ChestUCI, ´thinking first´ would be not a bad idea! ;-)

Regards,
Franz.



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