Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Mate in 17: Chessmaster 6555 solve in 1sec!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:55:26 10/20/00

Go up one level in this thread


On October 20, 2000 at 16:21:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 20, 2000 at 16:00:37, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On October 20, 2000 at 15:19:32, Andreas St. wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>here a position from CSS 4/93:
>>>
>>>white: K f1 ; Q e2 ; R g1,h5 ; B c1 ; N e1 ; P a4,d3,e5,f2,h4
>>>
>>>black: K h8 ; Q b1 ; R d8,f8 ; B b7 ; N b4,c6 ; P a6,b6,e6,f5,g7,h7
>>>
>>>
>>>FEN: 3r1r1k/1b4pp/ppn1p3/4Pp1R/Pn5P/3P4/4QP2/1qB1NKR1 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>
>>>wKf1,Qe2,Ne1,Bc1,Rg1,h5,Pa4,d3,e5,f2,h4/bKh8,Qb1,Nb4,c6,Bb7,Rd8,f8,Pa6,b6,e6,f5,g7,h7
>>>
>>>1. move: Rxh7+
>>>
>>>Mate in 17. I think, no Program is as good as Chessmaster 6555 here. Right?
>>>
>>>
>>>Greets Andy
>>
>>This is a problem where moves by white force situations where black has very few
>>replies.  You can solve this quickly by extending if black is in check and has
>>few ways out.  Most programs have this extension or something similar, the
>>differences are in the degree to which they try to constrain it.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Not all of the moves of white are checks.
>The main line begins with
>1.Rh7+ Kxh7 2.Qh5+ Kg8 3.Rxg7+ Kxg7 4.Bh6+ Kh8 5.Bg5+ Kg7 6.Qh6+ Kf7 7.Qf6+ Kg8
>8.Qg6+ Kh8 9.Bf6+ Rxf6 10.exf6 and here black is not in check.
>
>I believe that chessmaster knows to extend after 10.exf6 because of the fact
>that white threats mate in 1.
>
>Uri

They don't all have to be checks, just almost all of them.  I am surprised that
CM can find these and still operate reasonably in other cases.

bruce




This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.