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Subject: Re: If you enjoy like me solving mates...

Author: Paul

Date: 07:23:52 04/17/01

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On April 17, 2001 at 10:14:17, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On April 16, 2001 at 10:32:20, Paul wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 2001 at 09:13:33, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>If you like to solve a mate then this could be the one:
>>>
>>>[D]1Q1r2kr/1nq1q1pp/q1b1n1N1/3NbQq1/QB4BQ/q3Q3/3q1q2/1K1Q4 w - -
>>>
>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>
>>>Don't forget name your program and hardware.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>I do! :) These are the results from Amsterdam, a mate in 9:
>>
>>00:38 WM9 09 Ngxe7+ Qgxe7 Nxe7+ Qxe7 Qxe6+ Qff7 Qxf7+ Qxf7 Qbxd8+ Nxd8 Qxd8+
>>Qxd8 Qxd8+ Be8 Qdxe8+ Qxe8 Qxe8#
>
>Actually, there are two key moves for a mate in 9 according to Chest
>(K7/600, 350MB hash, 33 seconds):
>
>Ndxe7+ =*= Nxe7+ Qxe7 Qxe6+ Qff7 Qxf7+  Qxf7 Qhxd8+ Nxd8 Qxd8+  Qxd8 Qxd8+  Be8
>Qdxe8+ Qf8  Qxf8#
>
>Ngxe7+ =*= Nxe7+ Qxe7 Qxe6+ Qff7 Qxf7+  Qxf7 Qhxd8+ Nxd8 Qxd8+  Qxd8 Qxd8+  Be8
>Qdxe8+ Qf8  Qxf8#
>
>Chest is so fast here, because black has easy mate threats, itself.
>Such threats quite effectively cut down search tree size.  Chest searches
>less than 2M nodes, here.
>
>Heiner

Ok, that does it ... beaten by Chest on time also ... I quit! :)

Paul




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