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Subject: Re: A test position for chess programs(importance of tablebases)

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 10:43:00 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 12:55:11, Uri Blass wrote:

>>>8/8/p1r5/6k1/KP6/8/8/5R2 b - - 0 1
[...]
>>After 1...Rb6 it finds also a shorter mate:
>>
>>  19213357  8:50.2  Mat44 19t  2.Rf3 Kg4 3.Rf2 Kg5 4.Rf1 Kg6
>
>The game move was 4...Kg4 instead of 4...Kg6 and I guess there should be mate in
>at most 41 after 4...Kg4

After 4...Kg4 Yace first finds a mate in 40

    632382  17.283  Mat40 13t  5.Rb1 Rb5 6.Rc1 Rb6 7.Rc4+ Kf5 8.Ka5 Rd6 9.Rc7
                               Ke6 10.Ra7 Rd4 11.Rb7 Rd3 12.Kxa6 {EGTB}
                               12...Ra3+ 13.Kb6! Rb3 14.b5! Kd6! 15.Rf7 Rb4
                               16.Rf3 Kd7 17.Rc3! Rb2 18.Ka6! Rd2 19.b6 Ra2+!
                               20.Kb7! Rb2! 21.Rd3+ Ke7 22.Rd4 Ke6! 23.Kc6!
                               Rc2+! 24.Kb5! Rg2 25.b7! Rg8! {Not all
                               positions found in TB} {80}

and soon a mate in 39

    779677  21.377  Mat39 14t  5.Rb1 Rb5 6.Rc1 Rb6 7.Rc5 Rf6 8.Ka5 Kf4 9.Rc7
                               Ke4 10.Ra7 Rf5+ 11.Kxa6 {EGTB} 11...Rf6+!
                               12.Ka5! Kd5! 13.b5 Rf2 14.b6 Ra2+! 15.Kb5!
                               Rb2+! 16.Ka6! Rf2 17.Rc7 Ra2+! 18.Kb7! Rb2!
                               19.Rc6 Rf2 20.Rc3 Kd6! 21.Kb8! Rf8+ 22.Ka7! Rf4
                               23.Ra3! Rf7+ 24.b7! Kc6! 25.Rb3 Kc5 26.Rb6 Rg7
                               27.Ka6! Rg8 {Not all positions found in TB} {80}

Within 6:30 minutes, after which depth 21 is finished, no shorter mate is
found. I of course hope, that the mates are correct. I'd be very interested
if somebody could check them.

Regards,
Dieter




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