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Subject: Re: Shortest mate?

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 08:16:37 05/21/05

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On May 21, 2005 at 10:54:12, David Dahlem wrote:

>What's the shortest forced mate from this position, and can any engine find it
>without tablebases?
>
>[D]2KB4/1P6/2k5/8/8/8/7b/8 w - - 0 1

1. Bg5 Kb5 2. Be3 Ka6 3. Bc5 Be5 4. Be7 Kb5 5. Bd8 Kc6 6. Bf6 Bc7 7. Bd4 Bd6 8.
Ba7 Be5 9. Bb8 Bd4 10. Bc7 Ba7 11. Bf4 Kb5 12. Be3 Bxe3 13. b8=Q+ Kc4 14. Kd7
Kd5 15. Qb3+ Kd4 16. Ke6 Bd2 17. Qa4+ Kd3 18. Kd5 Bc3 19. Qa3 Kd2 20. Kc4 Bf6
21. Qd3+ Ke1 22. Qc2 Kf1 23. Kd3 Bb2 24. Ke3 Bc1+ 25. Kf3 Bd2 26. Qxd2 Kg1 27.
Qg2# 1-0

• Re: Shortest mate? John Merlino 14:42:40 05/21/05
  • Re: Shortest mate? Dieter Buerssner 14:50:19 05/21/05
    • Re: Shortest mate? John Merlino 16:58:41 05/21/05
      • Re: Shortest mate? Helmut Conrady 00:32:52 05/22/05
        • Re: Shortest mate? John Merlino 11:21:19 05/22/05
        • Re: Shortest mate? Daniel Mehrmannn 03:35:32 05/22/05
        • Re: Shortest mate? Dieter Buerssner 01:43:00 05/22/05

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