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Subject: Re: One easy mate...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 16:52:38 07/06/01

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On July 04, 2001 at 21:42:23, Pete Galati wrote:

>On July 04, 2001 at 19:58:09, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>The next position you can solve practically with every program.
>>
>>[D]4Nb1q/R3P1qk/1R1Q1q2/1rQ2q1q/n1Q2qq1/P1Q1PqN1/K1BPp1b1/2Br2Qn w - -
>>
>>If you tried to find the mate, please indicate your result.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Leonid.
>
>This doesn't seem to take long to come up with.
>
>Pete
>
>New position
>4Nb1q/R3P1qk/1R1Q1q2/1rQ2q1q/n1Q2qq1/P1Q1PqN1/K1BPp1b1/2Br2Qn w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Junior 6.0:
>
>1.Qxa4 Qff7+ 2.Qab3 Rxc5 3.Bxf5+
>  -+  (-24.07)   depth: 3   00:00:00  21kN
>1.exf8N+ Qfxf8 2.Bxf5+ Qhxf5 3.Rxg7+ Qgxg7 4.Qxg7+
>  -+  (-8.13)   depth: 3   00:00:00  95kN
>1.Nxf6+ Qgxf6 2.exf8Q+ Kg6 3.Bxf5+ Qhxf5 4.Qdxf6+
>  +-  (2.11)   depth: 3   00:00:00  173kN
>1.Nxf6+!
>  +-  (2.41)   depth: 6   00:00:00  257kN
>1.Nxf6+! Qgxf6 2.exf8Q+ Qfg7 3.Bxf5+ Qfxf5 4.Qcxg7+ Qgxg7 5.Qcxf5+ Qfxf5 6.Rxg7+
>Qxg7 7.Nxh5
>  +-  (7.73)   depth: 6   00:00:02  1829kN
>1.Nxf6+!
>  +-  (8.03)   depth: 9   00:00:05  4737kN
>1.Nxf6+! Qgxf6 2.Bxf5+ Qf4xf5 3.exf8N+ Kh6 4.Qcxf6+ Qfxf6 5.Qxf6+ Qfxf6 6.Rxf6+
>Qgg6 7.Qf4+ Qhg5 8.Rxg6#
>  +-  (#8)   depth: 9   00:01:14  52086kN
>1.Nxf6+ Qgxf6 2.Bxf5+ Qf4xf5 3.exf8N+ Kh6 4.Qcxf6+ Qfxf6 5.Qxf6+ Qfxf6 6.Rxf6+
>Qgg6 7.Qf4+ Qhg5 8.Rxg6#
>  +-  (#8)   depth: 9   00:01:33  66138kN

Chest does confirm this result, it is the shortest possible mate here.
After 4.5 minutes (K7/600, 250 MB hash) Chest found this PV:

PV: Nxf6+ Qxf6 exf8=N+ Kh6 Nxf5+ Qfxf5 Qdxf6+ Qfxf6 Rxf6+ Qgg6 Rxg6+ Qxg6 Qxh8+
Qh7 Rxh7#

Heiner



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