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Subject: Re: Mate in 8

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:35:28 04/06/02

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On April 06, 2002 at 13:24:53, Art Basham wrote:

>Neat problem...
>for humans and computers...!
>
>[D]8/p7/R7/NkN5/3p1p2/P2P1Pp1/6K1/8 w - -
>
>1. Nc4...! etc.

26 seconds for Chessmaster 8000 on a PIII-733:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	9.84	494		1.Rf6 Kxc5 2.Rf5+ Kd6 3.Nc4+ Ke6
					4.Rxf4
0:00	2/4	10.05	1653		1.Rf6 Kxa5 2.Rxf4 Kb5 3.Ne6
0:00	3/5	10.15	6968		1.Rf6 Kxa5 2.Nb7+ Ka4 3.Rxf4 Kxa3
					4.Kxg3
0:00	3/5	11.35	10104		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Ra5+ Kc6 3.Rf5 a6
					4.Rxf4 Kd5 5.Kxg3
0:00	4/6	11.35	33421		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Ra5+ Kc6 3.Rf5 a6
					4.Rxf4 Kd5 5.Kxg3
0:01	5/7	12.36	121607		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Ra5+ Kc6 3.Rxa7 Kd5
					4.Rf7 Kc6 5.Rxf4 Kd5 6.Kxg3
0:03	6/8	12.43	431937		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Ra5+ Kc6 3.Rxa7 Kc5
					4.Ra5+ Kc6 5.Rf5 Kd7 6.Rxf4 Ke6
					7.Kxg3 Kd5
0:09	7/9	13.45	1447426		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Ra5+ Kc6 3.Rxa7 Kc5
					4.Ra5+ Kc6 5.Ra6+ Kd7 6.Rd6+ Ke7
					7.Rxd4 Kf6 8.Rxf4+ Ke6 9.Kxg3 Kd5
					10.a4
0:26	8/10	Mate08	4359746		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Nd6 Kd5 3.Ne4 Ke5
					4.Nf6 Kf5 5.Ng4 Kg5 6.Nh6 Kh4 7.Nf7
					Kh5 8.Rh6#
0:39	9/11	Mate08	6508221		1.Nc4 Kxc5 2.Nd6 Kd5 3.Ne4 Ke5
					4.Nf6 Kf5 5.Ng4 Kg5 6.Nh6 Kh4 7.Nf7
					Kh5 8.Rh6#

jm



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