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Subject: Re: Mate in 19, which program?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:49:33 03/08/02

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On March 08, 2002 at 09:22:58, Ed Schröder wrote:

>[d]4r3/p1p1pPp1/P1P1P1P1/5K2/3p2P1/7p/3P1ppr/3R1nkq w - - id M19;
>
>I came across this beauty, mate in 19 moves. Rebel has no clue.
>
>Ed

It takes Chessmaster 8000 (PIII-733) a very long time to get a clue, but it
finally does:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	5/10	0.00	24924		1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
0:00	6/11	0.00	68383		1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
0:02	7/12	0.00	195175		1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
0:05	8/13	0.00	527108		1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
0:14	9/14	0.00	1522431		1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
0:35	10/15	0.00	3817520		1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
1:37	11/16	0.00	10838089	1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
4:05	12/17	0.00	26518345	1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
10:48	13/18	0.00	67843935	1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
28:53	14/19	0.00	178029195	1.fxe8=Q d3 2.Qxe7
51:41	14/19	Mate19	321927260	1.fxe8=N d3 2.Nf6 gxf6 3.Kf4 f5
					4.g7 fxg4 5.g8=N g3 6.Nf6 exf6
					7.e7 f5 8.Kg5 f4 9.e8=N f3 10.Nd6
					cxd6 11.c7 d5 12.c8=N d4 13.Nb6
					axb6 14.a7 b5 15.a8=N b4 16.Nb6
                                        b3 17.Nc4 b2 18.Ne5 b1=Q 19.Nxf3#

jm



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