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Subject: Re: If you like to solve a mate...

Author: leonid

Date: 06:46:33 02/13/01

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On February 13, 2001 at 08:58:07, Tim Foden wrote:

>On February 13, 2001 at 07:52:59, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Here is one of my usual forced mate but this time just too easy and short.
>>Whites hardly have 100 moves and black is almost helpless. Try to solve it if
>>you like.
>>
>>[D]q3Q3/rPnBq3/1Q1qN3/rq1QqQ2/kr1N1Q1Q/qqQb1R2/3BQ3/rRn1b2K w - -
>>
>>Please, indicate your result.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>OK, I'll give it a try even though you say it is easy! :-)
>
>Green Light v2.13-pr1, 920MHz Duron, 24Mb hash, finds a mate in 7:
>
>  3   2.52  17.36  411424  Qcxb3+ Nxb3 Qxb3+ Qxb3 Rxa1+ Qa3 Rxa3+ Kxa3 Nxb5+
>                             Raxb5
>  4   2.86     ++  518728  Qcxb3+  (a=16.86 b=17.86 e=17.86)
>  4   3.38 320.87  918986  Qcxb3+ Nxb3 Qxb3+ Rxb3 Nxb5+ Qab4 Nc3+ Ka3 Bc1+ Rb2
>                             Qxb2+ Qxb2 Qxb2# <ht>
>  4   3.96 320.87 1401563  Qcxb3+ Nxb3 Qxb3+ Rxb3 Nxb5+ Qab4 Nc3+ Ka3 Bc1+ Rb2
>                             Qxb2+ Qxb2 Qxb2# <ht>
>  5   4.62 320.87 2018943  Qcxb3+ Nxb3 Qxb3+ Rxb3 Nxb5+ Qab4 Nc3+ Ka3 Bc1+ Rb2
>                             Qxb2+ Qxb2 Qxb2#
>
>It sticks with this until ply 8 where I stopped the analysis.
>
>Cheers, Tim.

Is exact! It is mate in 7. Since selective search was able to solve it in 7 and
branching factor was very mild, I looked all position by brute force up to 7.

Cheers,
Leonid.



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