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Subject: Re: Here's a position I call "Somebody's in trouble" -- Your prog says what?

Author: Hans van der Zijden

Date: 17:00:19 02/06/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 18:12:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

>[D]4k3/Q3p1Q1/1Q5B/Q1QN1NQ1/4QQ2/B2Q4/8/2R1KR2 w - - acd 4; acn 29; acs 0; bm
>Nc7# Nd6# Nf6# Q5g6# Q7g6# Qaa4# Qab5# Qaxe7# Qbb5# Qbb8# Qbc6# Qbg6# Qc8# Qcb5#
>Qcc6# Qcxe7# Qd8# Qdb5# Qea4# Qexe7# Qf8# Qfb8# Qg5xe7# Qg7xe7# Qg8# Qh5#; ce
>32766; dm 1; pv Nd6#;
>
>I have found that some programs crash, and others think for minutes on this mate
>in 1.


Even my Basic program Gadget mates very quickly (0.163 seconds). It strangely
enough does not give a mate score though. By the way, the position is illegal.
With 9 white queens on the board, obviously all white pawns promoted to queens.
So how did the second bishop get on a black square?

Hans.



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