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Subject: Re: One mate to solve...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 04:44:34 07/05/01

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On June 30, 2001 at 06:47:19, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>If you are in mood to solve some mate position, look into this:
>
>[D]Q2nkn1q/1Q1rr1q1/2QQqq2/b2Qq2b/2NqQN2/2q2Q2/1q1BB1Q1/q2RKR1Q w - -
>
>Please indicate your result.

Hi Leonid,

as you said yourself in some followup: this is a mate in 9.  According to
Chest there are 3 solution moves.  Here are the respective PVs:

PV: Qfxh5+ Qhxh5 Bxh5+ Qff7 Bxf7+ Qgxf7 Qdxd7+ Rxd7 Qcxd7+ Qexd7 Nd6+ Ke7 Qh4+
Qf6 Ng6+ Nxg6 Qxf6#
PV: Qcxd7+ Qxd7 Qhxh5+ Qff7 Qhxf7+ Qxf7 Qdxd7+ Rxd7 Nd6+ Ke7 Ng6+ Qxg6 Qg5+ Qgf6
Qgxf6+ Qxf6 Qxf6#
PV: Qbxd7+ Qxd7 Qhxh5+ Qhxh5 Qxh5+ Rf7 Qdxd7+ Nxd7 Qcxd7+ Kf8 Ng6+ Qfxg6 Rxf7+
Q6xf7 Qhxf7+ Qxf7 Q5xf7#

That needed 21.3 minutes on an Athlon/600, using 350 MB hash.  The home page
of Chest is: http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html

Heiner



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