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Subject: Re: Mate announcements: Chessmaster rulez!

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 09:47:41 06/03/01

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On June 03, 2001 at 00:04:05, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On June 02, 2001 at 14:36:59, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On June 02, 2001 at 09:19:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>>Bringer-Chezz
>>[D]8/5k2/8/7p/4K2P/6P1/5P2/8 w - - 0 1
>>>Chessmaster without tablebases
>>>6:49 f4 mate in 17
>>>6:50 Ke5 mate in 16
>>
>>a) with 4-piece tbs:
>>
>>Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0:
>>
>>1.g4 Kg6 2.gxh5+ Kxh5
>>  +-  (13.56) Depth: 12   00:00:00  45kN, tb=236
>>  +-  (#15)   Depth: 16   00:00:13  2921kN, tb=3871
>>
>>b) without tb access:
>>
>>CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes.
>
>Mate in 16 (20.4 minutes) with f3 or Kf5.
>Still waiting for a PV.  More probably later.

 Kf5 Ke7 f3 Kd6  g4   Kd7  g5   Kd6  g6   Ke7  f4    Kd6  g7    Kc5  g8=Q  Kb4
Qd8   Kb3  Qd4   Ka2  Qb4   Ka1  Ke5   Ka2  Kd4   Ka1  Kc3   Ka2  Qb2#

 f3  Ke6 g4 Kd6  g5   Kd7  f4   Kd6  f5   Kd7  g6    Ke7  g7    Kf7  f6    Kg8
Kf4   Kf7  Ke5   Ke8  g8=Q+ Kd7  Qc4   Ke8  Qc8+  Kf7  Qh8   Kg6  Qg7#

( Chest tried to write a solution tree > 2GB into a disk file and died.  Hrmpf.
  Added a new option to Chest to just print the PVs.  Much better, now.
  Still, printing of large solution trees needs a rework. )


>>Hossa-Deep Shredder
>>[D]6k1/p3q1b1/4N3/3p1PR1/2pP4/1p2P2P/7P/3K4 b - - 0 1
>>>Chessmaster6000
>>>1:46 52...b2 mate in 14
>>
>>CT 14/P3-700: No mate announcement within 3 minutes.

This is in fact a mate in 11 (62.5 minutes):
PV: b2 Rxg7+ Qxg7 Nxg7 b1=Q+ Ke2 c3 f6 c2 f7+ Kxg7 f8=Q+ Kxf8 Kf3 c1=Q Kf4 Qf1+
Kg4 Qg1+ Kh4 Qh7#

I have not (yet) tried the last two positions.

Regards,
Heiner




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