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Subject: Re: Maybe a mate?

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 07:50:12 12/30/02

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On December 29, 2002 at 14:36:05, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On December 28, 2002 at 11:04:05, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On December 27, 2002 at 18:12:09, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On December 27, 2002 at 17:48:52, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>>
>>>>b2r2kr/p1pqb1p1/1p5p/4p3/2P1N1P1/1P2Q3/P3P2P/4KRR1 b - - 0 1
>>>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.
>>
>>Perhaps Chest can prove a mate after
>>
>>1...Bh4+  2. Rg3 Qd1+ 3. Kf2 Rf8+ 4. Qf3 Qd4+ 5. Kg2
>>
>>(After 5. Ke1 it is mate in 10 or faster, so this should also be possible?)
>
>[D]b4rkr/p1p3p1/1p5p/4p3/2PqN1Pb/1P3QR1/P3P1KP/5R2 b - -
>I've started depth 10 from there.
>Will need 2 hours or more (hard to guess, EBF appears to be unstable).
>
>Cheers,
>Heiner

After 16.2 hours (Athlon 1500+, 128 MB hash) Chest announces "mate in 10"
here, with Bxe4 as unique solution key.
I'm still waiting for PV and solution tree... the hash has been overrun
severely.

Cheers,
Heiner



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