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Subject: Re: Try this moderate mate.

Author: Paul

Date: 05:37:47 10/28/01

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On October 28, 2001 at 07:29:06, leonid wrote:

>On October 27, 2001 at 17:36:53, leonid wrote:
>
>>On October 27, 2001 at 16:52:40, Paul wrote:
>>
>>>On October 27, 2001 at 13:06:43, leonid wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello!
>>>>
>>>>I think that the next mate is just in the middle. It is not very hard to solve
>>>>and still it is not extremely easy. The best one when you want to be a sure
>>>>winner but not at big price.
>>>>
>>>>[D]bBQQ1nrq/b2NNq1k/K6n/QQqq1q1B/3Q1Q2/3r1qR1/3q2q1/3RQQq1 w - -
>>>>
>>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Leonid.
>>>
>>>Hi Leonid,
>
>Hi, Paul,
>
>>>since Pretz is in the garage at the moment for a revision of the engine, I
>>>thought I'd go over and comfort her with your new position. But I think the
>>>engineer broke something, because it doesn't find a mate (in 12) very quick:
>
>This position is mate in 12. Verified it at night by searching 11 moves by brute
>force. Took slightly more time that expected, since branching factor jumped
>after 10 moves. Three hours and 45 min. 12 was found already by selective.
>
>Cheers,
>Leonid.

Ok, so a mate in 12 it is! I only checked until depth 9 with Chest and estimated
it would take about an hour to prove that there is no mate in 11, so I stopped.

I haven't been able to come up with a faster time ... almost 8 minutes for mine
to find the mate in 12.

Paul



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