Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 08:17:19 02/10/01
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On February 10, 2001 at 10:36:39, leonid wrote: >On February 10, 2001 at 08:23:58, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On February 10, 2001 at 07:42:35, leonid wrote: >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>If you like to solve a mate, try this one: >>> >>>[D]3R2K1/q3q1B1/2bQ3Q/QQ3NQ1/2NnQQB1/Qq1qq1nQ/2nqr3/2nkbRq1 w - - >>> >>>Please, indicate your result. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Leonid. >> >>easy? > >When I found this position, yesterday, it was solved by selective search 9 moves >deep. I expect that shortest mate is even closer. Move that lead to mate is >checking move. This is why I wrote "easy". > >Leonid. There is no mate in 8 according to Chest (55 mins K7/600, 350MB hash). >>I am interested to know how much time do humans need to solve it. > >>Please indicate your result,the tree that you generated to prove the mate and >>your time. >> >>I am not going to do it because I am too lazy but I can give you a hint that it >>is a mate in at most 9 moves so you do not need to search longer lines >> >>Uri I stared at it for some minutes, myself. I did like Nb2+ until I found that the knight at c4 is pinned! Uuuh. That's computer stuff ;-) Heiner
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