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Subject: Re: Question about WAC

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 03:30:43 04/20/05

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On April 20, 2005 at 03:04:52, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On April 18, 2005 at 17:10:40, Steven Edwards wrote:

>>On April 18, 2005 at 17:03:53, F. Huber wrote:
>>>is there anywhere information available, which positions of the WAC test suite
>>>are actually a ´mate in n´?
>>>
>>>I would like to let ChestUCI analyze this WAC suite, but of course knowing
>>>IF a position is a mate at all (and in HOW MANY moves) would make this task
>>>much easier! ;-)
>>
>>Coincidentially, I'm in the process of running a one hour per position analysis
>>on WAC right now.  In the first 163 problems, a forced mating sequence was found
>>in 41 of them.  The run should complete in a few more days.
>
>I would like to get a copy of the data when you have completed your test, if
>possible.

It looks like another three days to go.  In the first 215 positions, a forced
mate was found in 58 of them.  Symbolic's toolkit is doing the work and is
searching about a quarter billion nodes maximum per problem.



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