Author: leonid
Date: 08:53:07 02/10/01
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On February 10, 2001 at 11:17:19, Heiner Marxen wrote: >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). Thanks! Now it is for sure 9 moves position. Leonid. >>>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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