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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 06:02:31 01/27/02

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On January 26, 2002 at 07:11:47, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>This position is one between few hundereds that was created long time ago (June
>2001) and never came here. Mate is very moderate and it will take not big effort
>to solve it.
>
>[D]1q1kq1q1/qQrbbrQq/3QQ3/NqQqqQqN/8/BnR2RnB/3PP3/3K4 w - -
>
>Please indicate your result.
>
>Thanks,
>Leonid.

Since black is threatening Qgxd2# the search tree is small.  Chest on an
Athlon 1500+ needs just 154 second (2.6 minutes) to find a unique solution
for mate in 9 (128 MB hash):

PV: Qdxe7+ Qexe7 Qcxe7+ Qxe7 Bxe7+ Rxe7 Qff8+ Qxf8 Rxf8+ Re8 Rxe8+ Bxe8 Qec8+
Qxc8 Qxc8+ Rxc8 Rxc8#

Timing and EBF:
#  3      0.01s                 1kN [ 13.35]  0.95         94-         0
#  4      0.06s [  6.00]       10kN [  7.28]  1.16        420-         0
#  5      0.33s [  5.50]       56kN [  5.63]  1.49       2267-         0
#  6      1.59s [  4.82]      264kN [  4.72]  1.94      11724-         0
#  7      6.92s [  4.35]     1115kN [  4.23]  2.56      57089-         0
#  8     30.50s [  4.41]     4626kN [  4.15]  3.26     268493-         0
#  9    154.58s [  5.07]    22281kN [  4.82]  3.86    1582341-      4173

Cheers,
Heiner



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