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Subject: Re: Ed Schröder - it's mate in 15 (not 18) - found by the new Crafty 20.3

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 00:31:20 02/20/06

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On February 20, 2006 at 02:31:55, Andre Reffhaug wrote:

>Glaurung 1.0.2 finds a mate in 15 in about 25 seconds on an AMD 2ghz.

Only 5 seconds for Glaurung 060220 on an Intel Core Duo 2 GHz (using
2 CPUs):

2 -192 16 503 h5 Kh8 hxg6
3 -192 16 733 h5 Kh8 hxg6
4 -160 16 1540 h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5
5 -156 16 3075 h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5 g4
6 -157 18 7235 h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5 g4 e5 dxe5 Bxe5 Nxc6 Qxc6
7 -151 21 21762 h5 Kh8 Nxc6 Qxc6 hxg6 Ng5 Ra7
8 -157 27 54552 h5 Kh8 Qxg6 Nd6 Bd3 Ne4 Be3 Ra8
9 -162 38 120157 h5 Kh8 Qxg6 Nd6 Bd3 Ne4 Be3 Ra8 Rxa8 Bxa8
10 -165 70 323586 h5 Kh8 Qxg6 Nd6 Bd3 Ne4 g4 Rbc8 Be3 e5 Bxe4 dxe4
11 -165 192 1105593 h5 Kh8 Qxg6 Ng5 Bd3 Rbc8 g4 Ne4 Be3 e5 Bxe4 dxe4
12 -192 406 2509597 h5 Kh8 Qxg6 Ng5 Bd3 Ra8 Rxa8 Rxa8 Be3 Ne4 Bxh6 Qc7
12 +9971 505 3275282 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
13 +9971 568 3841531 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
14 +9971 837 6295753 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
15 +9971 1207 9621785 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
16 +9971 3066 25844207 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
17 +9971 5451 47431317 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#

When using only one CPU, the solution time increases to 11 seconds:

2 -431 15 262 Qxf3 Nd6
2 -192 15 466 h5 Kh8 hxg6
3 -192 15 625 h5 Kh8 hxg6
4 -160 15 1307 h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5
5 -156 16 2679 h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5 g4
6 -157 17 6353 h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5 g4 e5 dxe5 Bxe5 Nxc6 Qxc6
7 -151 20 18201 h5 Kh8 Nxc6 Qxc6 hxg6 Ng5 Ra7
8 -157 28 46759 h5 Kh8 Qxg6 Nd6 Bd3 Ne4 Be3 Ra8
9 -165 66 198675 h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 g4 Rgc8 Qe3 Qc7 Nxc6 Qxc6
10 -164 139 471221 h5 Ng5 Qxg6+ Kh8 Bd3 Rgc8 Be3 Qe8 Ra7 Qxg6 Bxg6
11 -192 444 1545443 h5 Ng5 Qxg6+ Kh8 Be3 Ne4 Bd3 Ra8 Bxe4 dxe4 Nxc6 Qxc6
12 -178 1009 3536913 h5 Ng5 Qxg6+ Kh8 Be3 Ne4 Bd3 Ra8 Bxe4 dxe4 Rxa8 Bxa8 Bxh6
gxh6 Qxf6+ Kh7
12 +9971 1112 4003797 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
13 +9971 1220 4599589 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
14 +9971 1428 5740807 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
15 +9971 1987 8709340 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#
16 +9971 3681 17204528 Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3 Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1
Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1 Kxa1 Qa7+ Na2 Qxa2+ Kxa2 Bg5 Bh3+ Bc1 Rxc1#

Strange to see a forced mate where Glaurung is so much faster than Crafty.
Glaurung usually isn't a great mate finder.

Tord




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