Author: Rafael Andrist
Date: 12:50:54 04/04/02
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On April 04, 2002 at 14:44:10, Art Basham wrote: >White mates in 7 moves by > >1.Kb2, c3, d4, e5, etc. all the way up to g7...and then mates with the >lonely knight at h1...! >A rather unique puzzle from the >"Fireside Book of Chess"... > >[D]3B4/7p/p6P/p5p1/7k/8/P5P1/K2B3N w - - > >I do not know if a chess program can "see" this or not..., >but it is worth a try.... :-) Black often has only one reply, so it's easy, even for the slow Wilhelm: ply time value nodes N nodes Q PV 1 0s 10.10 22 4 g2-g3+ 2 0s 10.17 275 100 Bd1-f3 a5-a4! g2-g3+ 3 0s 11.48 1477 492 g2-g3+ Kh4-h3! Bd1-c2 Kh3-g2 4 0s 12.24 9124 2304 a2-a3 a5-a4! Ka1-b2 a6-a5! Bd8xa5 g5-g4! Bd1xa4 5 0s 12.19 42956 9697 a2-a3 a5-a4! Ka1-a2 a6-a5! Bd8xa5 g5-g4! Ba5-d2 Kh4-h5 6 1s 12.23 202889 36195 Bd8-e7 a5-a4! Ka1-b2 a6-a5 Bd1-f3 a4-a3+! Kb2xa3! a5-a4! Ka3-b2 a4-a3+! Be7xa3! g5-g4 7 6s 12.65 808527 129082 Bd8xa5 g5-g4! Ba5-d2 Kh4-h5 Bd1-c2 g4-g3 Bc2xh7 Kh5-g4 8 24s +# 7 3132564 416985 Ka1-b2 a5-a4! Kb2-c3 a4-a3 Kc3-d4 a6-a5! Kd4-e5 a5-a4! Ke5-f6 g5-g4! Kf6-g7+ Kh4-h5! Nh1-g3+ regards Rafael B. Andrist
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