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Subject: Re: Try one easy mate.

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 12:17:31 10/14/01

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On October 14, 2001 at 13:27:35, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>If you want solve one mate that is not very deep and difficult, this is exactly
>of this type:
>
>[D]2K1b1B1/1P1Qqp1R/Q1Qq1qk1/1Qq3qn/Pn5b/1Nq3r1/Q1Nq1p1B/1Q1Qr1R1 w - -
>
>Please indicate your result.
>
>Thanks,
>Leonid.

You are right, Leonid, this one is quite accessible to brute force search.
Chest (on K7/600 with >10MB hash) needs only 42.94 seconds to judge this
as a mate in 8 with a unique key move:

PV: Ne3+ Qcd3 Q5xd3+ Q6xd3 Qdxd3+ Qxd3 Qdxd3+ Nxd3 Qaxd3+ Qe4 Qxe4+ Qcf5+ Qxf5+
Qxf5+ Qxf5#

Black has very good counter measures: in 71% of the cases black mated white
in one.  Here is the timing, showing a really small EBF:

#  1      0.00s                 0kN           0.97          1-         0
#  2      0.00s                 0kN [ 13.67]  1.00          1-         0
#  3      0.01s                 1kN [ 10.17]  0.95         66-         0
#  4      0.06s [  6.00]        5kN [  5.56]  1.16        332-         0
#  5      0.35s [  5.83]       21kN [  4.53]  1.49       1398-         0
#  6      1.37s [  3.91]       76kN [  3.60]  2.19       5186-         0
#  7      4.74s [  3.46]      250kN [  3.31]  3.36      18631-         0
#  8     42.88s [  9.05]     2108kN [  8.42]  3.47     220222-         0

Cheers,
Heiner



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