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Subject: Re: Posted elsewhere, this is proven a mate in 9 and no less.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:52:23 02/06/01

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On February 06, 2001 at 05:08:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 05, 2001 at 17:21:30, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Took nearly an hour!
>>
>>[D]2r3k1/5ppp/7r/Q7/3P1p2/1N3Pnq/PP3K1P/R5R1 b - -
>>
>>E:\>chest319 -b -z 9 -M 200 m09.epd
>>2r3k1/5ppp/7r/Q7/3P1p2/1N3Pnq/PP3K1P/R5R1 b - - acn 429658002; acs 3414; bm
>>Ne4+; ce 32750; dm 9; pv Ne4+ fxe4 Qe3+ Kf1 Rxh2 Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe5+ f6 Qe7+ Kg6
>>Qxf6+ Kxf6 e5+ Kg6 e6 Qf2#;
>
>Chessmaster6000(ss=10) is faster in finding mate in 9.
>
>It needs only 1838 seconds to find it on PIII450.

But with Chessmaster you have no way to know it is the shortest mate until ply
(dm*2 + NULL depth).  In other words, if you did not already know it was the
shortest mate, there could be better solutions.  With Chest, you know for
certain that there are no solutions with fewer moves.



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