Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:06:39 01/04/02
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On January 04, 2002 at 00:59:00, Jouni Uski wrote:
>On January 03, 2002 at 03:33:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2002 at 01:05:14, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>[D]k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
>>>
>>>Mate in 8
>>>
>>>I tried this at home with Tiger14 and Fritz7 and Shredder5.32. None of them has
>>>any idea about mate in 8. Then I tried with Mate2.1, but no solution under 30
>>>minutes. What's the problem? Only Yace gives CORRECT mate in few seconds. Is
>>>this null move problem?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>programs of today have no problem with it
>>They may see wrong number of moves to mate but they always see the mate in few
>>seconds on p800
>>
>>
>>New position
>>k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
>>
>>Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0:
>>
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kb1 Ka8 5.Rc7 Kb8 6.a7+ Ka8 7.a6
>> +- (22.08) Depth: 13 00:00:00 148kN
>>1.Rd1 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7 Ka8 4.Kd2 Kb8 5.Kc3 Ka8 6.Kb4 Kb8 7.a7+ Ka8
>> +- (21.98) Depth: 13 00:00:01 477kN, tb=7
>>1.Rd1 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7 Ka8 4.Kd2 Kb8 5.Kc3 Ka8 6.Kb4 Kb8 7.a7+ Ka8 8.a6
>> +- (21.98) Depth: 14 00:00:01 698kN, tb=51
>>1.0-0-0
>> +- (22.88) Depth: 14 00:00:02 997kN, tb=63
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Kc2 Kxa6 3.Rd7 Kxa5 4.Rd6 Kxa4 5.Rd5 Kxa3 6.Rd4 Kxa2 7.Ra4#
>> +- (#7) Depth: 14 00:00:03 1281kN, tb=68
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Kc2 Kxa6 3.Rd7 Kxa5 4.Rd6 Kxa4 5.Rd5 Kxa3 6.Rd4 Kxa2 7.Ra4#
>> +- (#7) Depth: 15 00:00:04 1619kN, tb=220
>>
>>(Blass, Tel-aviv 03.01.2002)
>>
>>Crafty(1 mbytes hash)
>>
>>New position
>>k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
>>
>>Analysis by Crafty 18.12:
>>
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7
>> +- (12.88) Depth: 1/3 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7
>> +- (12.88) Depth: 2/3 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6
>> +- (12.93) Depth: 3/3 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6
>> +- (13.33) Depth: 4/5 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8
>> +- (13.55) Depth: 4/5 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8
>> +- (13.95) Depth: 5/8 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7
>> +- (14.05) Depth: 5/8 00:00:00
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7 Kc8
>> +- (14.05) Depth: 6/10 00:00:00 4kN
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kd2
>> +- (14.15) Depth: 7/12 00:00:00 14kN
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kd2 Kc8
>> +- (14.15) Depth: 8/14 00:00:00 40kN
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kd2 Ka8 5.Rc7
>> +- (14.23) Depth: 9/16 00:00:00 113kN
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kd2 Ka8 5.Kc3 Kb8
>> +- (14.45) Depth: 10/18 00:00:00 257kN
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kd2 Ka8 5.Kc3 Kb8 6.a7+ Ka8 7.a6
>> +- (14.54) Depth: 11/19 00:00:01 614kN, tb=6
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Ka8 3.Rd7 Kb8 4.Kd2 Ka8 5.Kc3 Kb8 6.a7+ Ka8 7.a6
>> +- (14.94) Depth: 12/21 00:00:01 1212kN, tb=41
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd7+ Kb8 3.Kd2 Ka8 4.Rd8+ Ka7 5.Kc2
>> +- (#10) Depth: 12/21 00:00:06 4242kN, tb=42
>>
>>(Blass, Tel-aviv 03.01.2002)
>>
>>New position
>>k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
>>
>>Analysis by Junior 7:
>>
>>1.Rd1 Kxa7 2.Rd6
>> +- (6.37) Depth: 3 00:00:00
>>1.Rd1 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd8+ Ka7
>> +- (6.53) Depth: 6 00:00:00
>>1.Rd1!
>> +- (6.83) Depth: 9 00:00:00 1kN
>>1.Rd1! Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7 Ka8 4.Rb7
>> +- (6.87) Depth: 9 00:00:00 2kN
>>1.Rd1!
>> +- (7.17) Depth: 12 00:00:00 7kN
>>1.Rd1! Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7 Ka8 4.Rc7 Kb8 5.a7+ Ka8 6.a6
>> +- (7.95) Depth: 12 00:00:00 18kN, tb=2
>>1.Rd1 Kxa7 2.Rd6 Kb8 3.Rd7 Ka8 4.Rh7 Kb8 5.a7+ Ka8 6.a6
>> +- (7.95) Depth: 15 00:00:00 143kN, tb=349
>>1.0-0-0 Kxa7 2.Rd7+ Kxa6 3.Kc2 Kxa5 4.Rd6 Kxa4
>> +- (7.96) Depth: 15 00:00:00 285kN, tb=730
>>1.0-0-0!
>> +- (8.26) Depth: 18 00:00:00 334kN, tb=909
>>1.0-0-0! Kxa7 2.Kc2 Kxa6 3.Rd7 Kxa5 4.Rd6 Kxa4
>> +- (8.27) Depth: 18 00:00:01 651kN, tb=1457
>>1.0-0-0!
>> +- (8.57) Depth: 21 00:00:02 1063kN, tb=3425
>>1.0-0-0! Kxa7 2.Rd7+ Kb8 3.Kc2 Ka8 4.Rd8+ Ka7 5.Kc3 Kxa6 6.Rd7 Kxa5 7.Rd6
>> +- (#6) Depth: 21 00:00:07 5689kN, tb=3710
>>1.0-0-0! Kxa7 2.Rd7+ Kb8 3.Kc2 Ka8 4.Rd8+ Ka7 5.Kc3 Kxa6 6.Rd7 Kxa5 7.Rd6
>> +- (#6) Depth: 21 00:00:08 6039kN, tb=3852
>>
>>(Blass, Tel-aviv 03.01.2002)
>>
>>Uri
>
>I think these kind of results are useless! Because of white's enormous material
>benefit it's easy to quess, that white can mate wit any move, but I want exact
>number of moves!
>
>Jouni
I don't know what you're complaining about. It's a clear mate in 6 as announced
by J7, and I can confirm that its 30 ply mainline is correct.
Albert
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