Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 03:44:47 12/28/02
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On December 27, 2002 at 18:12:09, Heiner Marxen wrote: >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. > It was just game I played as black against a friend. There is no doubt that black is winning, but I couldn't help feel that there was a forced mate in a reasonable number of moves (say, less than 20) and with a small solution tree. I guess I was wrong :) /David
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