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Subject: Re: If you enjoy like me solving mates...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 07:14:17 04/17/01

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On April 16, 2001 at 10:32:20, Paul wrote:

>On April 16, 2001 at 09:13:33, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>If you like to solve a mate then this could be the one:
>>
>>[D]1Q1r2kr/1nq1q1pp/q1b1n1N1/3NbQq1/QB4BQ/q3Q3/3q1q2/1K1Q4 w - -
>>
>>Please indicate your result.
>>
>>Don't forget name your program and hardware.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>I do! :) These are the results from Amsterdam, a mate in 9:
>
>00:38 WM9 09 Ngxe7+ Qgxe7 Nxe7+ Qxe7 Qxe6+ Qff7 Qxf7+ Qxf7 Qbxd8+ Nxd8 Qxd8+
>Qxd8 Qxd8+ Be8 Qdxe8+ Qxe8 Qxe8#

Actually, there are two key moves for a mate in 9 according to Chest
(K7/600, 350MB hash, 33 seconds):

Ndxe7+ =*= Nxe7+ Qxe7 Qxe6+ Qff7 Qxf7+  Qxf7 Qhxd8+ Nxd8 Qxd8+  Qxd8 Qxd8+  Be8
Qdxe8+ Qf8  Qxf8#

Ngxe7+ =*= Nxe7+ Qxe7 Qxe6+ Qff7 Qxf7+  Qxf7 Qhxd8+ Nxd8 Qxd8+  Qxd8 Qxd8+  Be8
Qdxe8+ Qf8  Qxf8#

Chest is so fast here, because black has easy mate threats, itself.
Such threats quite effectively cut down search tree size.  Chest searches
less than 2M nodes, here.

Heiner



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