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

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 14:41:46 01/04/01

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On January 03, 2001 at 13:25:59, leonid wrote:

>Just changed this position by adding few more pieces. This position demand more
>moves that original for mate. New position:
>
>[D]1R2R3/8/8/6NN/2p3n1/Q2n1p2/4pb2/5k1K w - -
>White to go.
>
>Could solve it by selective search but not by the most speedy. Mate was found 9
>moves ahead in 9 second. Don't know exactly how far is shortest mate. Only found
>that in 6 move it not existe. Too long for me to see farther. My program don't
>use hash table. Maybe somebody else will say exact number of moves that lead to
>mate.

Chest finds "there is no mate in 8" (69 min).

>Leonid.



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