Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:36:34 02/06/01
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On February 07, 2001 at 01:28:20, Terry McCracken wrote: >On February 06, 2001 at 18:09:49, John Merlino wrote: > >>This position is actually one move after the end of the game. According to Garry >>"after 62...Qc6+ 63.Kg5 it is a forced Mate in 25". Was he right? The position >>below is after 62...Qc6+. >> >>Best of Luck! >> >>[D]8/6P1/2q2K2/8/3p4/8/5Q2/2k5 w >> >>Of course, anybody with 6-man TBs can give us the answer right away. My >>apologies if this has been brought up before; I couldn't recall.... >> >>CM8000's results: >> >>Time Depth Score Positions Moves >>0:00 3/5 1.57 16962 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qd8+ 65. Kf4 >> d3 66. Qc5+ Kb2 >>0:00 4/6 1.89 51116 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qd8+ 65. Kh6 >> Qd6+ 66. Qg6 Qh2+ 67. Qh5 Qd2+ >> 68. Qg5 >>0:02 5/7 2.70 210397 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qg2+ 65. Kh6 >> Qh1+ 66. Qh5 Qc6+ 67. Kh7 Qc7 68. >> Qh1+ Kc2 69. Qf3 >>0:06 6/8 3.76 572540 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qg2+ 65. Kh6 >> Kb2 66. Qb5+ Kc3 67. Qc5+ Kb3 68. >> Qxd4 Qh3+ 69. Kg5 Qe6 >>0:16 7/9 3.71 1456515 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qd8+ 65. Kh6 >> Qg8 66. Qf4+ Kc2 67. Qxd4 Qe6+ >> 68. Kh7 Qf5+ 69. Kg8 Qe6+ 70. Kf8 >>0:47 8/10 3.73 4181034 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qd8+ 65. Kh6 >> Qd6+ 66. Kh5 Qh2+ 67. Kg6 Qd6+ >> 68. Qf6 Qb8 69. Qxd4 Qe8+ 70. Kh6 >> Qe6+ 71. Kh7 >>2:22 9/11 3.99 12981951 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qd8+ 65. Kh6 >> Qd6+ 66. Kh5 Qh2+ 67. Kg6 Qd6+ >> 68. Qf6 Qb8 69. Kh7 Qc7 70. Qxd4 >> Qc2+ 71. Kh8 Qh2+ 72. Kg8 >>21:52 10/12 4.90 115655957 63. Kg5 Qd5+ 64. Qf5 Qd8+ 65. Kg6 >> Qd6+ 66. Qf6 Qb8 67. Qg5+ Kb2 68. >> Qd2+ Kb1 69. Qd3+ Kb2 70. Qxd4+ >> Kb1 71. Qd1+ Kb2 72. Qd2+ Kb1 73. >> Kh7 Qc7 74. Qd3+ Kb2 >> >>jm > > >Hello Jim! Yes I remeber Kasparov claiming mate in 25 0r 26 moves witht Deep >Junior running on a quad Xenon 450 mgh. with a huge amount of ram and half a >gig. cache! > >I ran the moves through Fritz6 on a P-III 500, infinate analysis, letting it >decide what was the best move and it took it a while with me forcing moves to >announce mate. >However it did find a mate this way in 27 moves, so I would think Kasparov + >Deep Junior we're right in claiming checkmate within 25 or 26 moves. > >Terry I believe that fritz is not a good program in finding mates. I analyzed positions with Deep Fritz when Deep Fritz failed high again and again without finding a mate. I remember that yace did better result in the same position so maybe you should try yace. Uri
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