Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Maybe a mate?

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 15:12:09 12/27/02

Go up one level in this thread


On December 27, 2002 at 17:48:52, David Rasmussen wrote:

>[D]b2r2kr/p1pqb1p1/1p5p/4p3/2P1N1P1/1P2Q3/P3P2P/4KRR1 b - - 0 1
>
>Is this a forced mate? Well, of course it is, it's at least a forced mate in 500
>I should think, but is there a forced mate that a program can find in any
>reasonable time (< a week) or that a human with the aid of a computer could
>find?
>
>/David

You mean, black mates white?
According to Chest not within 8 moves.
I've started another run with depth=10.  We'll see.

If you have some line you think to be the best, I could try to prove
from there.

Cheers,
Heiner



This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.