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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 02:52:47 10/05/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 10:46:10, leonid wrote:

>On October 04, 2001 at 08:58:20, Paul wrote:
>
>>On October 04, 2001 at 06:31:46, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>[D]k2rQN2/b2bP1R1/r2pQ2K/qqqqQ2B/n2nQ2Q/q2qP1R1/p2pNB2/8 w - -
>>>
>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>Hi Leonid!
>
>Hi, Paul!
>
>>I guess this problem was composed especially for Heiner's harddisk, but this is
>>what Pretz found on my p3/1000:
>>
>>00:24 WM11 08 exd8=Q+ Qxd8 Qhxd8+ Bb8 Q6xd5+ Rc6 Qxb8+ Qxb8 Qxb8+ Kxb8 Nxd7+ Kc7
>>Nxc5+ Kb6 Nd7+ Kc7 Nb6+ Kb8 Qe8+ Rc8 Qxc8#
>>
>>So a mate in 11 in 24 seconds.
>
>We found with you mate at same depth, 11 moves. Had no chance to expect to reach
>solution by brute force, since 7 moves took already 1 hours and 3 min. I
>actually expected that you will use Heiner solver to find shorter solution for
>this position.
>
>Your program give all the time great result. We are almost identical. Mine took
>in 18 seconds.

Hi.  I thought I'd give GLC a go at this.  It confirms a mate in 11 after 60
seconds.  I left it running though, and it has now found a mate in 10 (3 mins 10
secs).

  7  36.96 +30.911  21919k  exd8=R+ Qxd8 2. Qhxd8+ Bb8 3. Qxb8+ Qxb8 4. Q4xd5+
                              Rc6 5. Qxb8+ Kxb8 6. Nxd7+ Ka7 7. Nxc5+ Kb6 8.
                              Rb7+ Ka5 9. Nxd3+ Rc5 10. Ra7+ Kb6
  8  37.69      ++  22262k  exd8=R+ (a=30.51 b=31.31 e=31.31)
  8  59.70 +Mate11  39767k  exd8=R+ Qxd8 2. Qhxd8+ Bb8 3. Qxb8+ Qxb8 4. Q4xd5+
                              Rc6 5. Qxb8+ Kxb8 6. Nxd7+ Ka7 7. Nxc5+ Kb6 8.
                              Nd7+ Kb7 9. Nb6+ Kb8 10. Qc8+ Rxc8 11. Qb7#
  8   1:23 +Mate11  59298k  exd8=R+ Qxd8 2. Qhxd8+ Bb8 3. Qxb8+ Qxb8 4. Q4xd5+
                              Rc6 5. Qxb8+ Kxb8 6. Nxd7+ Ka7 7. Nxc5+ Kb6 8.
                              Nd7+ Kb7 9. Nb6+ Kb8 10. Qc8+ Rxc8 11. Qb7#
  9   3:06 +Mate10 147706k  exd8=R+ Qxd8 2. Qhxd8+ Bb8 3. Qxb8+ Qxb8 4. Q5xd5+
                              Qc6 5. Qxb8+ Kxb8 6. Qe8+ Bc8 7. Qxc8+ Kxc8 8.
                              Qe8+ Qxe8 9. Qb7+ Kd8 10. Qc7#
  9   4:51 +Mate10 243875k  exd8=R+ Qxd8 2. Qhxd8+ Bb8 3. Qxb8+ Qxb8 4. Q5xd5+
                              Qc6 5. Qxb8+ Kxb8 6. Qe8+ Bc8 7. Qxc8+ Kxc8 8.
                              Qe8+ Qxe8 9. Qb7+ Kd8 10. Qc7#

Cheers, Tim.



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