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Subject: Re: Impatient Shirov :-)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:17:58 04/02/02

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On April 01, 2002 at 14:09:53, Dan Wulff wrote:

>Hi!
>
>On April 01, 2002 at 13:14:50, Alexander Kure wrote:
>
>>Analysis variation of Shirov vs. Krasenkov:
>>
>>[D]6r1/2rp1kpp/2qQp3/p3Pp1P/1pP2P2/1P2KP2/P5R1/6R1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>1 Rxg7 Rxg7 2 Rxg7 Kxg7 3 Qe7 Kg8 4 Qe8 Kg7 5 h6 Kxh6 6 Qf8 Kh5 7 Qf7 Kh4 8 Qh7
>>Kg3 9 Qg6 Kh4 10 Kf2 and mate in a few moves.
>
>Either Shirov is very impatient, he had only very old harware, or bad
>software....
>
>Gandalf needs about 50 seconds on my old PII-450 to see the win, and a few more
>seconds to announce the mate in 14.......
>
>Greetings
>
>Dan Wulff
>(The Gandalf Team)


All I can get here is a mate in 15....

               12    47.41     ++   1. Rxg7+!!
               12    49.26  Mat15   1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+
                                    Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
                                    Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg8+
                                    Kh4 <HT>
         (3)   12->  49.37  Mat15   1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+
                                    Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
                                    Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg8+
                                    Kh4 <HT>
         (2)   13     1:08  Mat15   1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+
                                    Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
                                    Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg8+
                                    Kh4 <HT>
               13->   1:09  Mat15   1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+
                                    Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
                                    Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg8+
                                    Kh4 <HT>
               14     2:23  Mat15   1. Rxg7+ Rxg7 2. Rxg7+ Kxg7 3. Qe7+
                                    Kg8 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. h6+ Kxh6 6. Qf8+
                                    Kh5 7. Qf7+ Kh4 8. Qxh7+ Kg3 9. Qg8+
                                    Kh4 10. Kf2 Qc5+ 11. Kg2 Qg1+ 12. Kxg1
                                    Rxc4 13. Qg5+ Kh3 14. Qg2+ Kh4 15.
                                    Qh2#



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