Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 07:27:43 01/03/01
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On January 03, 2001 at 09:25:29, leonid wrote: >On January 02, 2001 at 21:22:01, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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. > >Surpise! I could never figure out this special condition. If it was really some >new way of playing chess, please explain briefly what kind of game it was. > >Thanks, >Leonid. Please see: http://chessvariants.com/usualeq.dir/chancellor2.html JAFM > >> >>Under standard chess, it is a mate in 11 (as shown above correctly by Chest). > >Is is still pretty good. Search by brute force 11 moves deep should take pretty >long time to solve. It probably used some kind of selective search and >successfully.
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