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Subject: Re: One easy mate to solve. Correction!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:08:11 09/12/01

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On September 12, 2001 at 10:45:44, leonid wrote:

>On September 12, 2001 at 10:34:41, leonid wrote:
>
>>[D]Q6r/1prpbqk1/1Q4q1/1Q1nn1p1/1Q1NN1p1/1R4q1/1BBQQRp1/K6b w - -
>>
>>Please indicate your result.

According to chest, it's not a mate in 8.

Crafty can't spot it, but I did not expect 17+ ply to be exhausted:
EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
unable to open book file [e:\crafty\release/books.bin].
hash table memory = 192M bytes.
pawn hash table memory = 80M bytes.
EGTB cache memory = 32M bytes.
draw score set to    0.00 pawns.
choose from book moves randomly (using weights.)
choose from 5 best moves.
book learning enabled
result learning enabled
position learning enabled
threshold set to 9 pawns.
5 piece tablebase files found
19045kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables

Crafty v18.10

White(1): st 999
search time set to 999.00.
White(1): epdpfga \t.epd t.out
PFGA: EPD record: 1
middle-game phase
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 16:39 (16:39)
         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
                1     0.03  26.76   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7
                1->   0.05  26.76   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7
                2     0.05  26.75   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Rxg3 Rxa8+
                2->   0.19  26.75   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Rxg3 Rxa8+
                3     0.20     --   1. Rxf7+
                3     0.23  24.14   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Qh6+
                                    Kg8 4. Rxg3 Bxb4 5. Qdxg5+
                3->   0.63  24.14   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Qh6+
                                    Kg8 4. Rxg3 Bxb4 5. Qdxg5+
                4     0.79  24.14   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Qh6+
                                    Kg8 4. Rxg3 Bxb4 5. Qdxg5+
                4->   2.13  24.14   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Qh6+
                                    Kg8 4. Rxg3 Bxb4 5. Qdxg5+
                5     2.17     ++   1. Rxf7+!!
                5     3.91  26.23   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Rxg3
                                    Bxb4 4. Qh6+ Kg8 5. Qdxg5+ Ng6 6. Qbxd5
                5->   8.16  26.23   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Rxg3
                                    Bxb4 4. Qh6+ Kg8 5. Qdxg5+ Ng6 6. Qbxd5
                6     8.37     ++   1. Rxf7+!!
                6    19.60  26.77   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Qh6+
                                    Kg8 4. Nf6+ Nxf6 5. Qdxg5+ Ng6 6. Qhxg6+
                                    Qxg6 7. Qxg6+ Kh8 8. Rxg3 Bxb4 9. Qxb4
                6->  38.74  26.77   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Qh6+
                                    Kg8 4. Nf6+ Nxf6 5. Qdxg5+ Ng6 6. Qhxg6+
                                    Qxg6 7. Qxg6+ Kh8 8. Rxg3 Bxb4 9. Qxb4
                7    40.59     ++   1. Rxf7+!!
                7     2:39  28.64   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Nf5+ Qxf5 3. Qxh8+
                                    Kxh8 4. Qh6+ Qh7 5. Qxh7+ Kxh7 6. Nxg3+
                                    Ng6 7. Qbd4 Bc5
                7->   3:37  28.64   1. Rxf7+ Qxf7 2. Nf5+ Qxf5 3. Qxh8+
                                    Kxh8 4. Qh6+ Qh7 5. Qxh7+ Kxh7 6. Nxg3+
                                    Ng6 7. Qbd4 Bc5
                8     3:37     ++   1. Rxf7+!!
              time=16:39  cpu=99%  mat=22  n=589487968  fh=99%  nps=590k
              ext-> chk=80125742 cap=1032919 pp=36146 1rep=5779692 mate=87
              predicted=0  nodes=589487968  evals=3796048
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0

So tell me, what's the solution?

Pretty diagram, by the way.



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