Author: leonid
Date: 06:25:29 01/03/01
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On January 02, 2001 at 21:22:01, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 02, 2001 at 20:02:14, leonid wrote: > >>On January 02, 2001 at 19:37:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>[D]8/8/8/8/7K/1p6/7Q/1k6 w - - acn 12240607; acs 147; bm Kg3 Kg4; ce 32746; dm >>>11; pv Kg4 b2 Kf3 Ka1 Qe5 Kb1 Qc5 Ka2 Qd5+ Ka3 Qb5 b1=Q Qxb1 Ka4 Ke4 Ka5 Kd5 Ka6 >>>Kc6 Ka7 Qb7#; c0 "Chancellor Chess - a mate in 5 study by David Paulowich"; >> >>Given position do not contain mate in 5 moves. I tried it by mate solver in >>LLchess. Tried even 6 moves deep thinking that maybe there is some mistake in >>number of moves. Some programs count moves differently. No mate even for 6 >>moves. > >I finally figured out what is going on. "Chancellor Chess" is a chess variant >where the piece moves have different rules. Surpise! I could never figure out this special condition. If it was really some new way of playing chess, please explain briefly what kind of game it was. Thanks, Leonid. > >Under standard chess, it is a mate in 11 (as shown above correctly by Chest). Is is still pretty good. Search by brute force 11 moves deep should take pretty long time to solve. It probably used some kind of selective search and successfully.
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