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Subject: Re: If you like to crush easy mate...

Author: leonid

Date: 07:36:39 02/10/01

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On February 10, 2001 at 08:23:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 10, 2001 at 07:42:35, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>If you like to solve a mate, try this one:
>>
>>[D]3R2K1/q3q1B1/2bQ3Q/QQ3NQ1/2NnQQB1/Qq1qq1nQ/2nqr3/2nkbRq1 w - -
>>
>>Please, indicate your result.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>easy?

When I found this position, yesterday, it was solved by selective search 9 moves
deep. I expect that shortest mate is even closer. Move that lead to mate is
checking move. This is why I wrote "easy".

Leonid.

>I am interested to know how much time do humans need to solve it.

>Please indicate your result,the tree that you generated to prove the mate and
>your time.
>
>I am not going to do it because I am too lazy but I can give you a hint that it
>is a mate in at most 9 moves so you do not need to search longer lines
>
>Uri



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