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Subject: Re: we have new leader after 24 rounds

Author: Mike S.

Date: 20:51:45 01/29/06

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On January 29, 2006 at 23:12:45, Mike Byrne wrote:

>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?483032
>>[D]8/3R1P2/1ppP1p2/3r4/8/K7/p4k2/8 w - - 0 1

>A. Herbstmann 1954

Thanks.

>(...)

>However, Rybka does find this mate-in-14 pretty quickly
>
>[d] 8/1N6/8/8/3n2n1/3k4/4n3/3K4 b - - 21 13
>Rybka 1.01 Beta 13b:
>   3	00:00	         792	0	+8.70	13. ... Nc3+ 14.Kc1
>   4	00:00	       2.112	0	+8.65	13. ... Nc3+ 14.Kc1
>   4	00:00	       2.472	0	+8.73	13. ... Nf2+ 14.Ke1 Ne4 15.Kf1 Ke3 16.Ke1 Nc2+
>17.Kd1 Nb4 18.Na5 N4c3+ 19.Ke1 Nd3+ 20.Kf1

(...)

>  12	00:01	     340.606	305.412	+9.67	13. ... Nf2+ 14.Ke1 Ne4 15.Kf1 Ke3 16.Ke1
>Nc2+ 17.Kd1 Nb4 18.Na5 N4c3+ 19.Ke1 Nd3+ 20.Kf1
>  13	00:01	     448.390	312.347	+M14	13. ... Nf2+ 14.Ke1 Ne4 15.Kf1 Ke3 16.Ke1
>Nc2+ 17.Kd1 Nb4 18.Na5 N4c3+ 19.Ke1 Nd3+ 20.Kf1

1 second!? Sensational... can it really find that #14 so quickly, with empty
hash?

I tried the first beta and it detected mate after 11 seconds (P4/3.0 GHz)
showing the "320" eval.

Regards,
Mike Scheidl



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