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Subject: Re: Position from FIDE KO Shirov-Grischuk (corrected diagram)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:21:50 12/12/00

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On December 12, 2000 at 23:17:30, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 12, 2000 at 20:31:09, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>
>>Can any program find the mate in 10 any faster?
>
>Sure.  Chest can beat itself, by running on a faster machine.
>It took 7 minutes on my machine.
>;-)
>
>E:\chest-3.19\Release>chest319 -b -Z10 epd.epd
>6k1/3KR1p1/1p1P3p/1P3p2/p3rP2/4p3/P5PP/8 w - - acn 59699390; acs 422; bm Rxe4;
>ce 32748; dm 10; pv Rxe4 Kf7 Re7+ Kf8 Rxe3 Kf7 Kc6 h5 d7 Kg8
>d8=Q+ Kh7 h3 h4 Re6 g6 Re7+ Kh6 Qh8#;

This part is easy.  Mine didn't find a mate quickly, but within a few seconds it
was clear that this was won.  The real problem is earlier, possibly the place
that Tim points out.

bruce




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