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Subject: Re: unsolveable in the 90's - how about now?

Author: F. Huber

Date: 10:59:33 08/28/05

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On August 28, 2005 at 13:52:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 28, 2005 at 13:20:32, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>On August 28, 2005 at 13:05:36, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>CCC arhives indicated no pc program was able to solve this in the late 90's.  In
>>>2002, Ruffian was reported to solve fairly quickly.
>>>
>>>Crafty Classic 2005
>>>Black(1): [d]1r4r1/3q1npk/2b1pbnp/Rp1p4/1N1P3P/2PQ1pP1/1K3B2/5B1R w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>               14    26:48  Mat15   1. Qxg6+ Kxg6 2. Bd3+ Kh5 3. g4+ Kxg4
>>>                                    4. Rg1+ Kh3 5. Bf1+ Kh2 6. Bg3+ Kxg1
>>>                                    7. Ra1 Ra8 8. Rb1 Ra1 9. Kxa1 Ra8+
>>>                                    10. Kb2 Ra1 11. Kxa1 Qa7+ 12. Kb2 Qa1+
>>>                                    13. Kxa1 f2 14. Bh3+ f1=Q 15. Rxf1#
>>>                                    (s=2)
>>
>>And ChestUCI 2005 in 9 sec (on a slow Celeron/400)! ;-)
>
>Unfair comparison.
>
>When you already give it conditions for special mate of course it has an
>advantage.

It seems that you are not able to read! :-(

Look at ChestUCI´s output:

>ChestUCI Ver.4.2:
>CPU: Celeron 400MHz
>FEN: 1r4r1/3q1npk/2b1pbnp/Rp1p4/1N1P3P/2PQ1pP1/1K3B2/5B1R w - -
>Position-Analysis:  C0/R0/K2/P9/X36
>AutoTurbo-Search for Special-Mate [C1/R0/K0/P0/X0] in 15 ...  (Hash=33MB)
>AutoTurbo-Search for Special-Mate [C0/R1/K0/P0/X0] in 15 ...  (Hash=33MB)
> 15/15	00:09	     579.491	83.620	+M15	1.Dxg6+
>1.Qxg6+ Kxg6 2.Bd3+ Kh5 3.g4+ Kxg4 4.Rg1+ Kh3 5.Bf1+ Kh2 6.Bg3+ Kxg1 7.Ra1 Ra8
>8.Rb1 Ra1 9.Rxa1 Ra8 10.Rb1 Ra1 11.Rxa1 Qa7 12.Rb1 Qa3+ 13.Kxa3 f2 14.Bh3+ f1Q
>15.Rxf1#

There were absolutely NO conditions given before startung it - this is the
usual AutoTurbo-Mode of ChestUCI, finding the solution in 9 secs!

So please don´t talk nonsense here ...

Franz.



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