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Subject: Re: One mate to solve...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 07:03:11 07/05/01

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On July 03, 2001 at 09:13:39, leonid wrote:

>On July 03, 2001 at 05:47:02, Angrim wrote:
>
>>On July 02, 2001 at 15:10:18, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>This mate could be fun to resolve:
>>>
>>>[D]R1N1N2k/2qqqqbb/1nQ2q1r/2Q2qQ1/1nQ2q2/1QQQQq1r/1BB5/K5QR w - -
>>>
>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>proved that move g5xg7 wins, 11 turns
>>PN2:2020634 evals, 39222 expands, 13.15 seconds
>
>
>Excellent time! Only what is "one turn"? One move?
>
>I do ask this because my program found that mate existe between 12 and 9 moves.
>First 8 moves my program looked by brute force. Mate was found in 12 by
>selective. If your result signify that mate was found in 11 moves then  shortest
>mate is between 9 and 11 moves.
>
>Leonid.

Chest says "No solution in 9 moves", using 69.4 minutes on a K7/600 with
350 MB hash.  I have started depth 10, but it will need 10 hours or more.

Heiner



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