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Subject: Re: Mate for white?

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 08:56:59 12/31/00

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After 3 hours of anayzing Junior6 does anly see a draw as well, so maybe it as a
draw after all.

Ernst.

New position
n1QBq1k1/5p1p/5KP1/p7/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Junior 6.0:

1.gxh7+ Kxh7 2.Qh3+ Kg8 3.Qg2+ Kf8 4.Qxa8
  +-  (1.82)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
1.gxh7+!
  +-  (2.12)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  3kN
1.gxh7+! Kh8 2.Qxa8 a4 3.Qd5 Kxh7 4.Qxf7+ Qxf7+ 5.Kxf7
  +-  (2.21)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  6kN
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Qe5+ 4.Kh6 Qg7+ 5.Kh5 Qxh7+ 6.Kg4 f5+ 7.Kg5 Qg8+
8.Kxf5 a4
  ²  (0.68)   Depth: 9   00:00:01  511kN, tb=1
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Bxa5 Qe5+ 5.Kh4 f5 6.Qd8 f4 7.Bc7 Qe4
  =  (0.15)   Depth: 12   00:00:09  4871kN, tb=180
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
8.Bg5 Qb6+ 9.Kh5 Qg6+ 10.Kg4
  =  (0.02)   Depth: 14   00:00:33  16259kN, tb=1294
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 15   00:01:51  55444kN, tb=4986
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 16   00:03:30  103560kN, tb=12087
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 17   00:06:53  197795kN, tb=31171
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 18   00:15:18  428446kN, tb=79048
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 19   00:35:01  966854kN, tb=190702
1.gxh7+ Kh8 2.Qxa8 Qe6+ 3.Kg5 Kxh7 4.Qh1+ Kg8 5.Bf6 Qe3+ 6.Kh5 Qe2+ 7.Kh6 Qe3+
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 20   01:26:20  2434155kN, tb=463845

(Ernst, ChessTown 31.12.2000)


On December 31, 2000 at 08:04:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 31, 2000 at 06:51:23, Ernst Walet wrote:
>
>>About two weeks ago someone posted the following postsion:
>>
>>[D]n1QBq1k1/5p1p/5KP1/p7/8/8/8/8 w - -
>>
>>As far as I can recall it should have been a mate for white, but the programs I
>>tried can only find a draw, ie. Shredder4 on a PIII-500E with 128MB hash and all
>>3-4-5 men EGTB.  Can someone shine a light on this please?
>>
>>Thanks, Ernst.
>
>
>I did not try to solve the position but I read that there is a beautiful
>zunzwang so it seems to be a bad idea to use null movers like shredder.
>
>The only program that I would try to solve it instead of you are Junior,Rebel
>and Chessmaster because Junior and Rebel are not null movers and chessmaster at
>least does not use null move in a stupid way like other programs because I know
>that it solved a study that other programs like Fritz could never solve because
>of null move problem.
>
>Chessmaster is also very good in finding mates.
>
>Uri



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