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Subject: Re: If you like to find a mate...

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 18:00:23 01/18/01

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On January 18, 2001 at 20:02:12, Paul wrote:

>On January 18, 2001 at 19:51:06, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On January 18, 2001 at 19:13:22, Paul wrote:
>>
>>>On January 18, 2001 at 19:01:08, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 18, 2001 at 18:44:05, leonid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>If you would like to find a mate here is one position. It is very easy to solve
>>>>>but not that simple to find shortest mate.
>>>>>
>>>>>I failed here even in 3 hours to find shortest mate through brute force search.
>>>>>Maybe you will have better chance.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1k4q1/1pppPr2/PbbP1N1n/QP2rn1R/1q6/1q2RBB1/q1q2PPP/6NK black to go
>>>>>
>>>>>Leonid.
>>>>
>>>>Is this the right position?
>>>>
>>>>[D]1k4q1/1pppPr2/PbbP1N1n/QP2rn1R/1q6/1q2RBB1/q1q2PPP/6NK b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>If so, then mine says it's a mate in 10 for black starting with Nxg3+ ...
>>>It looks like a daily reverse auction ... Anyone lower, anyone? :)
>>>
>>>Paul
>>
>>Crafty seems to say the same thing.  I haven't run these moves passed a board to
>>check to see if it really IS a forced mate, but I assume it is since Black keeps
>>white in check the whole time.  Just over 3 minutes.  48mb hashtable fwiw.
>>
>>Pete
>>
>> 8     3:13 -Mat10   1. ... Nxg3+ 2. hxg3 Rxh5+ 3. Nxh5
>>                     Qh4+ 4. gxh4 Qxg2+ 5. Bxg2 Bxg2+ 6.
>>                     Kh2 Ng4+ 7. Kg3 Qxf2+ 8. Kxg4 Bh3+
>>                     9. Nxh3 Qf5+ 10. Kg3 Qxe3#
>> 8->   3:40 -Mat10   1. ... Nxg3+ 2. hxg3 Rxh5+ 3. Nxh5
>>                     Qh4+ 4. gxh4 Qxg2+ 5. Bxg2 Bxg2+ 6.
>>                     Kh2 Ng4+ 7. Kg3 Qxf2+ 8. Kxg4 Bh3+
>>                     9. Nxh3 Qf5+ 10. Kg3 Qxe3#
>> 9     5:45 -Mat10   1. ... Nxg3+ 2. hxg3 Rxh5+ 3. Nxh5
>>                     Qh4+ 4. gxh4 Qxg2+ 5. Bxg2 Bxg2+ 6.
>>                     Kh2 Ng4+ 7. Kg3 Qxf2+ 8. Kxg4 Bh3+
>>                     9. Nxh3 Qf5+ 10. Kg3 Qxe3#
>> 9->  17:39 -Mat10   1. ... Nxg3+ 2. hxg3 Rxh5+ 3. Nxh5
>>                     Qh4+ 4. gxh4 Qxg2+ 5. Bxg2 Bxg2+ 6.
>>                     Kh2 Ng4+ 7. Kg3 Qxf2+ 8. Kxg4 Bh3+
>>                     9. Nxh3 Qf5+ 10. Kg3 Qxe3#
>
>Yeah, this was the line 'Pretz' found:
>
>1... Nxg3+ 2. hxg3 Rxh5+ 3. Nxh5 Qh4+ 4. gxh4 Qxg2+ 5. Bxg2 Bxg2+
>6. Kh2 Ng4+ 7. Kg3 Qxe3+ 8. fxe3 Qf2+ 9. Kxg4 Qe6+ 10. Kg5 Qff5x
>
>If it's really a mate in 10 then the matesolvers will have a hard
>time proving that I guess. It's quite a beautiful mate I think.
>
>Paul

I suppose there's several ways to do this mate, Junior6 takes a different route
than Crafty and Pretz

Analysis by Junior 6.0:

1...Nxg3+! 2.hxg3 Rxh5+ 3.Nxh5 Qh4+ 4.gxh4 Qxg2+ 5.Bxg2 Bxg2+ 6.Kh2 Ng4+ 7.Kg3
Qxf2+ 8.Kxg4 Qe6+ 9.Rxe6 Qxe6+ 10.Kg5 Qc5#
  -+  (-#10)   Depth: 11   00:01:53  78724kN

Pete



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