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Subject: Re: Mate in 9....?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 17:20:25 04/03/02

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On April 03, 2002 at 18:02:12, Art Basham wrote:

>In about 60 sec. my Junior5 ann. mate in 9 with
>
> 1. Nf4!
>
>[D]8/8/1B3p2/1B2k2N/7N/4K3/8/8 w - -
>
>maybe your results will be different...
>of course, there could be more than one solution to this one...

Chessmaster, on a PIII-600, announces Mate in 8 in 29 seconds:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	2/3	14.39	1807		1.Bd4+ Kd6 2.Nxf6 Ke6 3.Nf3
0:00	3/4	14.57	11325		1.Bd4+ Ke6 2.Nxf6 Kd6 3.Nf5+ Ke6
					4.Bd7+ Kf7
0:00	4/5	14.63	49062		1.Bd4+ Ke6 2.Nf4+ Ke7 3.Nf5+ Kf7
					4.Bc4+ Ke8 5.Bxf6 Kd7
0:02	5/6	14.73	222835		1.Bd4+ Ke6 2.Nf4+ Ke7 3.Nf5+ Kf7
					4.Ke4 Kf8 5.Bxf6 Kf7
0:11	6/7	14.75	1181886		1.Bd4+ Ke6 2.Nf4+ Ke7 3.Nd5+ Kf7
					4.Ke4 Ke6 5.Nf5 Kf7 6.Bxf6 Ke6
					7.Nd4+ Kf7
0:19	6/7	14.86	2077808		1.Nf4 Kd6 2.Nf5+ Ke5 3.Ne7 f5 4.Bd4+
					Kd6 5.Nxf5+ Kc7 6.Nd5+ Kc8 7.Ke4
					Kd8 8.Bb6+ Kc8 9.Nd6+ Kb8
0:29	7/8	Mate08	3268251		1.Nf4 f5 2.Bd4+ Kd6 3.Nxf5+ Kc7
					4.Nd5+ Kc8 5.Nb4 Kd8 6.Na6 Kc8
					7.Nd6+ Kd8 8.Bf6#
1:04	8/9	Mate08	8437494		1.Nf4 f5 2.Bd4+ Kd6 3.Nxf5+ Kc7
					4.Nd5+ Kc8 5.Nb4 Kd8 6.Na6 Kc8
					7.Nd6+ Kd8 8.Bf6#



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