Mate in 82?

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Jouni
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Re: Mate in 82?

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Has Komodo really max_depth higher than 99/128? For solving 82 mate you need 164 plies. Normal SF and Houdini have 128 limit AFAIK.
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Re: Mate in 82?

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K 12.3 is impressive in this position,

just 5 seconds for me with 23 threads on macOS (12 real cores) and 8192 Hash

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44	  #82 	164.5M	0:05.32	Bf1 Kc1 Bh3 Kc2 Ke2 Kc1 Bg2 Kc2 Bf1 Kc1 Ke1 Kc2 Be2 Kb1 Kd1 Kb2 Kd2 Kb1 Bd1 Kb2 Bc2 Ka1 Kc1 Kxa2 Bd1 Ka1 Kc2 Ka2 Be2 Ka1 Bf1 Ka2 Bg2 Ka1 Bh3 Ka2 Bf1 Ka1 Be2 Ka2 Bd1 Ka1 Kc1 Ka2 
turns positive in just under 1 second.
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