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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:28:49 02/10/01

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On February 10, 2001 at 12:20:23, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On February 10, 2001 at 11:53:07, leonid wrote:
>
>>On February 10, 2001 at 11:17:19, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On February 10, 2001 at 10:36:39, leonid wrote:
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>There is no mate in 8 according to Chest (55 mins K7/600, 350MB hash).
>>
>>Thanks! Now it is for sure 9 moves position.
>>
>>Leonid.
>
>On a mobile P750 with 128MB hash, Junior 7 beta finds a mate in 9 in 2 minutes.
>Junior is good at solving this sort of freak mates, while Deep Fritz refuses to
>compute them and crashes.
>
>Enrique
>
>New position
>3R2K1/q3q1B1/2bQ3Q/QQ3NQ1/2NnQQB1/Qq1qq1nQ/2nqr3/2nkbRq1 w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Junior 7 beta:
>
>1.Qfxg3 Qdxc4+ 2.Qxc4 Qxc4+ 3.Qad5 Q3xg5 4.Qexe7
>  +-  (9.87)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  341kN
>1.Qexc6 Qf7+ 2.Kh7 Qxf4 3.Nxd4
>  +-  (11.59)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  469kN
>1.Qxd3 Qf7+ 2.Kh7 Qexd3 3.Qaxd2+
>  +-  (16.58)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  718kN
>1.Qxd2+ Qdxd2 2.Nfxe3+ Qdxe3 3.Bxe2+ Kxe2 4.Qexe3+
>  +-  (22.12)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  975kN
>1.Nfxe3+ Q2xe3 2.Bxe2+ Kxe2 3.Qxe1+ Nxe1 4.Qfxe3+
>  +-  (22.50)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  1235kN
>1.Nfxe3+!
>  +-  (22.80)   Depth: 6   00:00:01  2392kN
>1.Nfxe3+! Qgxe3 2.Qbxb3 Qxc4+ 3.Qxc4 Qxg5 4.Qxd2+ Qxd2 5.Qhxg3 Bxe4
>  +-  (27.04)   Depth: 6   00:00:04  6839kN
>1.Nfxe3+!
>  +-  (27.34)   Depth: 9   00:00:21  33305kN
>1.Nfxe3+! Qgxe3 2.Rxe1+ Qxe1 3.Qxe1+ Nxe1 4.Qbxb3+ Ndxb3 5.Bxe2+ Ncxe2 6.Qxb3+
>Kc1 7.Qexe3+ Qexe3 8.Qxe3+ Qdxe3 9.Qbd1#
>  +-  (#9)   Depth: 9   00:02:00  108950kN
>
>(Irazoqui, CadaquƩs 10.02.2001)

Chessmaster6000 is even better and found the mate in 10 seconds on pIII450 if I
remember correctly.

It suggested another move Qxd2+

Uri



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