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Subject: Re: mate test

Author: blass uri

Date: 11:40:20 03/19/99

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On March 18, 1999 at 02:46:31, blass uri wrote:

>
>On March 17, 1999 at 14:58:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>These two were found quickly by Crafty:
>>6k1/1p3pp1/p6p/P7/5q1P/1PPPpB1r/8/R2Q1K2 b - - acd 7; acn 1520065; acs 10; ce
>>32756; pv Rh1+ Ke2 Rh2+ Kf1 Qxh4 Qc2 Rf2+ Ke1 Rd2+ Kf1 Qf2#;
>>7r/b4pk1/p7/np1Q4/2p5/2P4P/PP3PP1/4R1K1 w - - acd 9; acn 61279017; acs 337; ce
>>32756; pv Re7 Kh6 Qxf7 Bxf2+ Kxf2 Rf8 Qxf8+ Kg5 Rg7+ Kh4 Qh8#;
>>
>>The others were not discovered, although all have a positive ce of 551 to 1692.
>>I have not tried any other tools against them yet.
>>
>>I would be very interested to see the other solutions.  How far out are the
>>mates?
>>
>>You are a very gifted problem solver/composer.  Have you ever entered those
>>problem contests?
>
>I entered a problem contest in Israel when the target was to compose long
>studies with a known kind of final positions.
>
>in one of the cases the target was to compose a problem when white does mate
>with only king and one minor piece(knight, bishop or pawn) and I composed the
>mate in 17.5 as a result.
>
>These problems were not composed by me
>They are part of the ssdf games
>The evaluation of Fritz5.32 show more than 5.5 pawns advantage and I am sure
>Fritz5.32 is winning and the question is only to find mates.
>
>Junior5.3 show mate in 10 in the first position after looking 57466 Knodes
>(8 minutes and 35 seconds)
>
>main line
>1.g4 g5 2.Rxb5 e5 3.Rxe5 a3 4.bxa3 d3 5.Rxg5 Rc8 6.Rg7 Rc2+ 7.Ke3 Re2+
>8.Kd4 Re4+ 9.Kxe4 d2 10.Rg8#
>
>position 2:Rh1 is mate in 6(Junior5.3 191Knodes at depth 9)
>
>position 3:Rh3 is mate in 7(Junior5.3 26911Knodes at depth 15 after 2 minutes
>and 49 seconds)
>
>position 4:Qf4+ is mate in 8(Junior5.3 47102Knodes at depth 16 after 5 minutes)
>
>position 5:Junior5.3 sees dxe3+ as mate in at most 11 moves after 29 minutes and
>25 seconds(394201 knodes)
>I think that chessmaster saw shorter mate but I am not sure
>1...dxe3+ 2.Ke2 Qf4 3.d4 Qxg4+ 4.Kd3 e2+ 5.Kc4 exd1Q 6.Rxd1 Qxd1 7.c3 Qd3+ 8.Kd5
>Qb5+ 9.Ke4 Qe2+ 10.Kd5 Rxc3 with mate next move.
>
>position 6:Junior5.3 saw after more than an hour that Be3+ is mate in 12
>
>Uri
position 7:Junior5.3 needed close to 3 hours (1,869,066 Knodes) to see that Bxf4
is mate in 13

Uri



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