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Subject: Re: a mate to solve (here's an interesting one)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:22:24 10/09/01

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On October 09, 2001 at 20:01:36, Slater Wold wrote:

>On October 09, 2001 at 13:01:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>[D]8/1P6/8/5k2/2K4p/7r/1r4p1/6R1 b - - 0 61
>
>Rc3+??
>
>W,S - Shredder 5.32
>8/1P6/8/5k2/2K4p/7r/1r4p1/6R1 b - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Shredder 5.32:
>
>1...Rg3 2.b8Q Rxb8
>  -+  (-9.03)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.Rh1
>  -+  (-9.03)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.Rh1 gxh1Q 3.b8Q Rxb8
>  -+  (-9.03)   Depth: 2/4   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.Rh1 gxh1Q 3.b8Q Rxb8
>  -+  (-9.03)   Depth: 3/6   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.b8Q Rxb8 3.Rh1 gxh1Q
>  -+  (-9.28)   Depth: 4/8   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.b8Q Rxb8 3.Rh1 gxh1Q
>  -+  (-9.28)   Depth: 4/8   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.b8Q Rxb8 3.Kd5 h3
>  -+  (-9.48)   Depth: 5/10   00:00:00
>1...Rg3 2.b8Q Rxb8 3.Kd5 h3 4.Kd6
>  -+  (-9.64)   Depth: 6/12   00:00:00  14kN, tb=62
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Kc4 h2 4.Rf1+ gxf1Q+ 5.Kd4 h1Q
>  -+  (-9.89)   Depth: 7/14   00:00:00  26kN, tb=219
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Kc4 h2 4.Rf1+ gxf1Q+ 5.Kd4 h1Q
>  -+  (-10.39)   Depth: 7/14   00:00:00  27kN, tb=223
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.b8Q Rxb8 4.Kd4 h2 5.Re1
>  -+  (-13.01)   Depth: 7/14   00:00:00  57kN, tb=356
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Kc5 h2 4.Rf1+ gxf1Q 5.b8N h1Q
>  -+  (-13.26)   Depth: 8/16   00:00:01  96kN, tb=980
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Kc5 h2 4.Rf1+ gxf1Q 5.b8N Qb5+ 6.Kd4 h1Q
>  -+  (-13.76)   Depth: 8/16   00:00:02  110kN, tb=1168
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Re1 g1Q 4.Rxg1 Rxg1 5.Kc6 h2 6.Kc7 h1Q 7.b8Q Rxb8 8.Kxb8
>  -+  (-17.14)   Depth: 8/16   00:00:02  227kN, tb=1309
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.b8Q Rxb8 4.Kc4 h2 5.Rf1+ gxf1Q+ 6.Kc5 h1Q
>  -+  (-17.39)   Depth: 9/18   00:00:03  306kN, tb=2229
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.b8Q Rxb8 4.Kc4 h2 5.Rf1+ gxf1Q+ 6.Kc5 Qb5+ 7.Kd6 h1Q
>  -+  (-17.89)   Depth: 9/18   00:00:03  315kN, tb=2279
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Re1 g1Q 4.Re5+ Kg4 5.Re4+ Kh5 6.Re7 Qg2+ 7.Ke6 Rxb7
>  -+  (-20.37)   Depth: 9/18   00:00:04  473kN, tb=2939
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 h3 3.Re1 g1Q 4.Re5+ Kg4 5.Re8 Rxb7 6.Ke6 h2 7.Re7
>  -+  (-20.62)   Depth: 10/20   00:00:05  876kN, tb=3612
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 Rxb7 3.Kd6 Rb1 4.Re1 Rxe1 5.Kc7
>  -+  (-21.12)   Depth: 10/20   00:00:06  1132kN, tb=3859
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 Rxb7 3.Kc6 h3 4.Ra1 h2 5.Ra5+ Kg4 6.Ra4+ Kh3 7.Kd5 Rg5+ 8.Ke4 g1Q
>  -+  (-21.77)   Depth: 10/20   00:00:06  1419kN, tb=4026
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 Rxb7 3.Kc6 h3 4.Ra1 h2 5.Kd6 g1Q 6.Ra5+ Kf6 7.Rb5 h1Q 8.Rxb7
>  -+  (-22.02)   Depth: 11/22   00:00:08  2002kN, tb=5550
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 Rxb7 3.Rc1 g1Q 4.Rc2 h3 5.Rc4 Rd7+ 6.Kc6 h2 7.Rh4 Rgd3 8.Kb5 h1Q
>9.Rxh1 Qxh1
>  -+  (-22.52)   Depth: 11/22   00:00:09  2258kN, tb=5664
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 Rxb7 3.Kc4 Rb1 4.Kc5 Rxg1 5.Kd5 Rd1+ 6.Kc4 g1Q 7.Kb4
>  -+  (-30.57)   Depth: 11/22   00:00:18  9033kN, tb=6241
>1...Rg3 2.Kd5 Rxb7 3.Kd6 Rb6+ 4.Kd5 Rb1 5.Re1 Rd1+ 6.Kc6 Rxe1 7.Kb6 g1Q+ 8.Ka5
>  -+  (-30.58)   Depth: 12/24   00:00:28  14305kN, tb=10832
>1...Rc3+ 2.Kxc3 Rxb7 3.Ra1 g1Q 4.Ra5+ Kg4 5.Kd3 Rb3+ 6.Ke2 Qc1 7.Rd5 Qc2+ 8.Rd2
>Qc4+ 9.Kd1 h3 10.Rd3 Qxd3+ 11.Ke1 h2
>  -+  (-30.59)   Depth: 12/24   00:01:48  76152kN, tb=14204
>1...Rc3+ 2.Kxc3 Rxb7 3.Ra1 g1Q 4.Ra5+ Kg4 5.Kd3 Rb3+ 6.Ke2 Qc1 7.Ra2 h3 8.Rd2
>Qc4+ 9.Ke1 Rb1+ 10.Kf2 h2 11.Rb2 h1Q 12.Rc2 Qxc2+ 13.Ke3 Qc3+
>  -+  (-30.94)   Depth: 12/24   00:01:49  76757kN, tb=14279
>1...Rc3+ 2.Kd4 Rb4+ 3.Kd5 Rxb7 4.Kd4 Rd7+ 5.Kxc3 Rd1 6.Rxg2 h3
>  -+  (-#30)   Depth: 12/24   00:04:29  200109kN, tb=15218
>
>(W,  09.10.2001)
>
>
>Weird.

Tablebases is the reason for the strange moves

Shredder can see that after 1...Rc3+ 2.Kxc3 Rxb7 3.Rxg2 black wins by tablebases
and this is the reason that it chooses this strange line.

Uri



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