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Subject: Re: Test Position - Mate in 14

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 15:02:09 01/19/02

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On January 19, 2002 at 17:40:05, David Rasmussen wrote:

>This is from Shredder - Chezzz from the first day of CCT:
>
>[D]3Q4/4q2p/1p1pNk2/3P2p1/6P1/7P/5P2/6K1 w - - 0 50
>
>The right move is Qh8+. Is there a shorter mate?
>
>00:00:41.44   15Mn 12/30/30 +MAT27 50. Qh8+ Kg6 51. Qg8+ Kf6
>                                   52. Qxg5+ Kf7 53. Qg7+ Ke8
>                                   54. Qg8+ Kd7 55. Qa8 Qf6
>                                   56. Qb7+ Ke8 57. Qc8+ Ke7
>                                   58. Qd8+ Kf7 59. Qf8+
>
>This is probably easy, with all those forced moves...

Engine: Shredder 6
by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

  8.02	 0:01 	+8.33 	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Qxh7+ Ke8 3.Qg8+ Kd7 4.Qb8 Qf6 5.Qc7+ Ke8
6.Qxd6 Qa1+ 7.Kg2 b5 8.Nxg5 (454.595) 353.7
  9.01	 0:01 	+8.59++	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Qxh7+ Ke8 3.Qg8+ Kd7 4.Qb8 Qf7 5.Qxb6 Ke8
6.Qxd6 Qd7 (493.796) 356.5
  9.01	 0:01 	+8.67 	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Qxh7+ Ke8 3.Qg8+ Kd7 4.Qb8 Qf6 5.Qxb6 Qa1+
6.Kg2 Qf6 7.Qc6+ Ke7 8.Qc7+ Ke8 9.Qxd6 (639.679) 367.4
 10.01	 0:03 	+8.92++	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.f4 Qxe6 3.dxe6+ Kxe6 4.fxg5 Kd7 (1.394.429)
384.6
 10.01	 0:03 	+9.42++	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.f4 Qxe6 3.dxe6+ Ke7 (1.537.596) 384.8
 10.01	 0:08 	+16.84	1.Qh8+ Kg6 2.Qg8+ Kf6 3.Qxg5+ Kf7 4.Qg7+ Ke8 5.Qg8+ Kd7
6.Qa8 Qf8 7.Nxf8+ Ke7 (3.630.087) 410.4
 11.01	 0:11 	+16.85	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Qg7+ Ke8 3.Qg8+ Kd7 4.Qa8 Qf6 5.f4 h5 6.Qc6+
Ke7 7.Qc7+ Ke8 8.Qc8+ Kf7 9.Qf8+ Kg6 10.gxh5+ Kf5 11.Nd4+ Ke4 12.Qxf6 gxf4
(4.852.179) 420.8
 12.01	 0:12 	+17.10++	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Qg7+ Ke8 3.Qg8+ Kd7 4.Qa8 Qf6 5.f4 h5 6.Qc6+
Ke7 7.Qc7+ Ke8 8.Qc8+ Kf7 9.Qf8+ Kg6 10.gxh5+ Kh7 11.Qxf6 g4 (5.160.808) 417.5
 12.01	 0:12 	+17.60++	1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Qg7+ Ke8 3.Qg8+ Kd7 4.Qa8 Qf6 5.f4 b5 6.Qb7+
Ke8 7.Qc8+ Qd8 8.Qxd8+ Kf7 (5.228.020) 416.7
 12.01	 0:30 	+18.83	1.Qh8+ Kg6 2.Qg8+ Kf6 3.Qxg5+ Kf7 4.Qg7+ Ke8 5.Qg8+ Kd7
6.Qa8 Qf6 7.Qc6+ Ke7 8.Qc7+ Ke8 9.Qc8+ Ke7 10.Qd8+ Kf7 11.Qf8+ Kg6 12.Qg8+ Kh6
13.g5+ Kh5 14.gxf6 (14.650.323) 479.7
 13.01	 0:37 	+18.83	1.Qh8+ Kg6 2.Qg8+ Kf6 3.Qxg5+ Kf7 4.Qg7+ Ke8 5.Qg8+ Kd7
6.Qa8 Qf6 7.Qc6+ Ke7 8.Qc7+ Ke8 9.Qc8+ Ke7 10.Qd8+ Kf7 11.Qf8+ Kg6 12.Qg8+ Kh6
13.g5+ Kh5 14.gxf6 (17.988.444) 473.6
 14.01	 0:46 	+19.08++	1.Qh8+ Kg6 2.Qg8+ Kf6 3.Qxg5+ Kf7 4.Qg7+ Ke8 5.Qg8+ Kd7
6.Qa8 Qf6 7.f4 h6 8.f5 h5 9.Qb7+ Ke8 10.Qc8+ Qd8 11.Nxd8 b5 12.Nc6+ (21.674.929)
462.3
 14.01	 0:48 	+19.58++	1.Qh8+ Kg6 2.Qg8+ Kf6 3.Qxg5+ Kf7 4.Qg7+ Ke8 5.Qg8+ Kd7
6.Qa8 Qf6 7.f4 h6 8.f5 Qg7 9.Qb7+ Ke8 10.Nxg7+ Kd8 (22.482.266) 461.4
 14.01	 3:01 	  +M13	1.Qh8+ Kg6 2.Qg8+ Kf6 3.Qxg5+ Kf7 4.Qg7+ Ke8 5.Qg8+ Kd7
6.Qa8 Qf6 7.h4 h6 8.Qb7+ Ke8 9.Qc8+ Ke7 10.Qd8+ Kf7 11.Qf8+ Kg6 12.Qg8+
(97.515.432) 537.0



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