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Subject: Re: Mate in 6 ....Problem

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 04:58:18 02/16/03

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On February 16, 2003 at 07:42:13, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On February 16, 2003 at 07:20:14, Art Basham wrote:
>
>>This one is a real gem!
>>AS far as I know,
>>
>>1. Kf8 is the only move that leads to a mate in 6...!
>>
>>6K1/6B1/3pNNk1/8/4P3/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>My Fritz 7 finds it for awhiile ..but then changes to Bh8...
>>
>>I wonder if there is a program that finds Kf8 and stays there
>>long enough to force the mate in 6....:-)
>>
>>Art
>
>PostModernist on an Athlon 1200 takes a little while:
>
>11= +23.28   00:01:55.38  18390536   1.Kf8 d5 2.exd5 Kf5 3.Ke7 Ke5 4.d6 Kf5
>                                     5.d7 Kg6 6.d8=Q
>12> +23.28   00:01:55.38  18390918   1.Kf8 d5 2.exd5 Kf5 3.Ke7 Ke5 4.d6 Kf5
>                                     5.d7 Kg6 6.Kd6
>12<  +M04    00:04:32.35  55013204   1.Kf8
>12=  +M06    00:04:32.36  55014052   1.Kf8 d5 2.exd5 Kf5 3.Kf7 Ke5 4.Kg6 Kd6
>                                     5.Bh6 Ke7 6.Bf8
>
Genius 6.5 finds and announces Mate in 6 with Kf8 after about 2 seconds on
AMD2600+. I haven't been able to find a way to save its analysis though.



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