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Subject: Re: Mate in 5.....A Neat Problem by W. Pauly.....1913

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:14:42 04/02/02

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On April 02, 2002 at 12:01:05, Art Basham wrote:

>From one of my real old chess books - now out of print...!
>
>1. Nc6 mates in 5...! (maybe more than one solution...
>They had no computors back then to check their work...:-)
>
>[D]R7/4N3/7B/8/4k3/1B6/8/7K w - -

According to Chessmaster, Nc6 is the only move that results in a Mate in 5:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	2/3	16.24	3523		1.Ra4+ Ke5 2.Bg7+ Kd6 3.Nf5+ Kc6
					4.Kg2
0:00	2/3	16.26	5284		1.Kg2 Ke5 2.Ra5+ Kd6 3.Nf5+ Kd7
0:00	3/4	16.32	13349		1.Kg2 Kd4 2.Bg7+ Kd3 3.Rd8+ Ke3
0:00	3/4	16.37	33847		1.Ra4+ Kd3 2.Nd5 Ke2 3.Kg2 Kd3
					4.Kf3
0:01	4/5	16.37	136210		1.Ra4+ Kd3 2.Nd5 Ke2 3.Be3 Ke1
					4.Kg2 Ke2
0:04	5/6	Mate08	405989		1.Ra4+ Kd3 2.Bd1 Kc3 3.Bc1 Kd3
					4.Kg2 Kc3 5.Nd5+ Kd3 6.Nf4+ Kc3
					7.Ne2+ Kd3 8.Rd4#
0:06	5/6	Mate06	649709		1.Bc2+ Ke5 2.Ra6 Kd4 3.Rc6 Ke5
					4.Kg2 Kd4 5.Kf3 Ke5 6.Bg7#
0:08	6/7	Mate06	988370		1.Bc2+ Ke5 2.Ra6 Kd4 3.Rc6 Ke5
					4.Kg2 Kd4 5.Kf3 Ke5 6.Bg7#
0:17	7/8	Mate06	2271762		1.Bc2+ Ke5 2.Ra6 Kd4 3.Rc6 Ke5
					4.Kg2 Kd4 5.Kf3 Ke5 6.Bg7#
0:40	8/9	Mate06	5531736		1.Bc2+ Ke5 2.Ra6 Kd4 3.Rc6 Ke5
					4.Kg2 Kd4 5.Kf3 Ke5 6.Bg7#
1:01	8/9	Mate05	8438049		1.Nc6 Kd3 2.Bc1 Ke2 3.Kg2 Kd3 4.Re8
					Kc3 5.Re3#
1:06	9/10	Mate05	8913332		1.Nc6 Kd3 2.Bc1 Ke2 3.Kg2 Kd3 4.Re8
					Kc3 5.Re3#

jm



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