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Subject: Re: Queen for a day..!

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 19:58:22 01/08/02

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On January 08, 2002 at 18:17:01, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 07, 2002 at 08:59:28, Robert Basham wrote:
>
>>Watch this "busy Queen" do a mate in 14 all alone..!
>>
>>See which computor program can announce the correct number of moves
>>in the shortest amount of time, etc.
>>
>>1. Qe4+ mates...
>>
>>Junior5 sees "a mate in 13",,,etc.
>>
>>[D]kq4n1/4p2Q/1P2P3/1K6/8/8/p7/8 w - -
>
>CM8000 says Mate in 14 in less than one second. If Junior5 says Mate in 13,
>what's the line?
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	2.28	3195		1.Qe4+ Qb7 2.Qa4+ Kb8 3.Qf4+ Ka8
>					4.Qf8+ Qb8 5.Qf3+ Qb7 6.Qa3+ Kb8
>					7.Qg3+ Ka8 8.Qxg8+ Qb8 9.Qg2+ Qb7
>					10.Qxa2+ Kb8
>0:00	1/4	2.70	7384		1.Qe4+ Qb7 2.Qa4+ Kb8 3.Qf4+ Ka8
>					4.Qf8+ Qb8 5.Qf3+ Qb7 6.Qa3+ Kb8
>					7.Qg3+ Ka8 8.Qxg8+ Qb8 9.Qg2+ Qb7
>					10.Qxa2+ Kb8 11.Qh2+ Ka8
>0:00	2/5	Mate14	15622		1.Qe4+ Qb7 2.Qa4+ Kb8 3.Qf4+ Ka8
>					4.Qf8+ Qb8 5.Qf3+ Qb7 6.Qa3+ Kb8
>					7.Qg3+ Ka8 8.Qxg8+ Qb8 9.Qg2+ Qb7
>					10.Qxa2+ Kb8 11.Qh2+ Ka8 12.Qh8+
>					Qb8 13.Qa1+ Kb7 14.Qa6#
>0:00	3/6	Mate14	35532		1.Qe4+ Qb7 2.Qa4+ Kb8 3.Qf4+ Ka8
>					4.Qf8+ Qb8 5.Qf3+ Qb7 6.Qa3+ Kb8
>					7.Qg3+ Ka8 8.Qxg8+ Qb8 9.Qg2+ Qb7
>					10.Qxa2+ Kb8 11.Qh2+ Ka8 12.Qh8+
>					Qb8 13.Qa1+ Kb7 14.Qa6#
>0:01	4/7	Mate14	85565		1.Qe4+ Qb7 2.Qa4+ Kb8 3.Qf4+ Ka8
>					4.Qf8+ Qb8 5.Qf3+ Qb7 6.Qa3+ Kb8
>					7.Qg3+ Ka8 8.Qxg8+ Qb8 9.Qg2+ Qb7
>					10.Qxa2+ Kb8 11.Qh2+ Ka8 12.Qh8+
>					Qb8 13.Qa1+ Kb7 14.Qa6#

According to Chest this is a mate in 14, and Qe4+ is the only solution.

PV: Qe4+ Qb7 Qa4+ Kb8 Qf4+ Ka8 Qf8+ Qb8 Qf3+ Qb7 Qa3+ Kb8 Qg3+ Ka8 Qxg8+ Qb8
Qg2+ Qb7 Qxa2+ Kb8 Qh2+ Ka8 Qh8+ Qb8 Qa1+ Qa7 Qxa7#

(K7/600, 30MB hash, 22.7 min)

Maybe Junior is on of those with the off-by-one problem at mate depthes?

Cheers,
Heiner



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