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Subject: Re: crafty problem

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 08:11:04 11/08/05

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On November 08, 2005 at 02:48:44, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On November 08, 2005 at 01:21:03, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On November 07, 2005 at 17:14:45, Rob Basham wrote:
>>
>>>[D]6r1/p1pq1p1p/1p1p1Qnk/3PrR2/2n1P1PP/P1P5/4R3/6K1 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Well, it is easy for Fidelity Mach 3.....:-)
>>>
>>>Mach 3 at level one finds all the correct moves to this mate in 11....!
>>>
>>>Beginning with....Rh5+
>>>
>>>How does your machine do on this one...?
>>>
>>>Rob
>>
>>Oddly, Crafty 20.0 bh cannot solve this.  Bug?  does it happen in the latest
>>crafty?
>
>
>
>Hi,
>on my system Crafty v20.0 BH finds mate in 11 easily
>same for v20.1
>
>               8->   0.63   0.01   1. Rh5+ Rxh5 2. g5+ Rxg5+ 3. hxg5+
>                                   Kh5 4. Rh2+ Kg4 5. Rg2+ Kh4 6. Qf2+
>                                   Kh5 7. Qe2+ Kh4 8. Qf2+
>               9     0.66     +1   1. Rh5+!!
>               9     0.66     +3   1. Rh5+!!
>               9     0.67     +M   1. Rh5+!!
>               9     0.74  Mat11   1. Rh5+ Rxh5 2. g5+ Rxg5+ 3. hxg5+
>                                   Kh5 4. Rh2+ Nh4 5. Qh6+ Kg4 6. Qxh4+
>                                   Kf3 7. Rf2+ Ke3 8. Qg3+ Kxe4 9. Qf3+
>                                   Ke5 10. Re2+ Ne3 11. Rxe3#
>               9->   0.82  Mat11   1. Rh5+ Rxh5 2. g5+ Rxg5+ 3. hxg5+
>                                   Kh5 4. Rh2+ Nh4 5. Qh6+ Kg4 6. Qxh4+
>                                   Kf3 7. Rf2+ Ke3 8. Qg3+ Kxe4 9. Qf3+
>                                   Ke5 10. Re2+ Ne3 11. Rxe3#
>
>
>
>Kind regards
>Bernhard

So, of the four results for crafty posted here, two cannot find it, one takes a
long time, and yours finds < 1 sec.  I wonder what's going on?

My setup is a p4 2.8ghz, now using crafty 20.1 bh, the rc file sets the hash to
96mb, and the phash to 6mb.  Winboard 4.26.

Will



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