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Subject: Re: Mate study -- who's wrong: David Paulowich or Chest 3.19?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:22:01 01/02/01

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On January 02, 2001 at 20:02:14, leonid wrote:

>On January 02, 2001 at 19:37:15, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>[D]8/8/8/8/7K/1p6/7Q/1k6 w - - acn 12240607; acs 147; bm Kg3 Kg4; ce 32746; dm
>>11; pv Kg4 b2 Kf3 Ka1 Qe5 Kb1 Qc5 Ka2 Qd5+ Ka3 Qb5 b1=Q Qxb1 Ka4 Ke4 Ka5 Kd5 Ka6
>>Kc6 Ka7 Qb7#; c0 "Chancellor Chess - a mate in 5 study by David Paulowich";
>
>Given position do not contain mate in 5 moves. I tried it by mate solver in
>LLchess. Tried even 6 moves deep thinking that maybe there is some mistake in
>number of moves. Some programs count moves differently. No mate even for 6
>moves.

I finally figured out what is going on.  "Chancellor Chess" is a chess variant
where the piece moves have different rules.

Under standard chess, it is a mate in 11 (as shown above correctly by Chest).

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