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Subject: Re: Neat Mate in 12 Problem ...

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 13:56:50 04/11/02

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On April 11, 2002 at 15:35:06, Art Basham wrote:

>White plays 1. Nd8 and mates in 12...!
>
>[D]6n1/1N4p1/6Pp/1B1NpP2/P2kP3/1p3PpK/2P4P/rb2b3 w - -

I (and my engine) like this more, than other "Mate in ..." positions posted
recently. Often the positions were like: The engine can see, that this is an
easy win. Here, it seems not that trivial to win. So, I believe, this is more
suited to test "playing" programs.

Yace, K6-2 475, 20M hash (run in the background with perhaps 60% of the CPU)

   1122228  11.205   0.00  9.  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Nb7+ Kd4 {-350}
   1281204  13.096   0.40 10++ 1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. c4 Bf2 4. c5+ Bxc5 5.
                               Nd8 Bxe4 6. fxe4 Rxa4 7. Bxa4 Bd4 {260}
   1747861  17.979   0.67 10t  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. c4 Bxe4 4. fxe4 Rc1
                               5. Nd8 Kc5 6. hxg3 b2 7. Ne6+ Kd6 8. c5+ Rxc5
                               9. Nxc5 Kxc5 10. Bd3 {80}
   2485208  25.704   0.67 10.  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. c4 Bxe4 4. fxe4 Rc1
                               5. Nd8 Kc5 6. hxg3 b2 7. Ne6+ Kd6 8. c5+ Rxc5
                               9. Nxc5 Kxc5 10. Bd3 {80}
   3619387  38.411   1.02 11t  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. c4 Bxe4 5.
                               fxe4 Rd1 6. Nd5+ Rxd5 7. cxd5 gxh2 8. Kxh2 b2
                               9. Bd3 Kf6 {80}
   5813363  1:05.0   1.02 11.  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. c4 Bxe4 5.
                               fxe4 Rd1 6. Nd5+ Rxd5 7. cxd5 gxh2 8. Kxh2 b2
                               9. Bd3 Kf6 {80}
   9096128  1:38.7   1.11 12t  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. c4 Bxe4 5.
                               fxe4 Rd1 6. Nd5+ Rxd5 7. cxd5 gxh2 8. Kxh2 b2
                               9. Bd3 Kf6 10. Bb1 {80}
  15251052  2:50.7   1.11 12.  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. c4 Bxe4 5.
                               fxe4 Rd1 6. Nd5+ Rxd5 7. cxd5 gxh2 8. Kxh2 b2
                               9. Bd3 Kf6 10. Bb1 {80}
  16037776  3:01.8   1.51 13++ 1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. hxg3 Rxa4
                               5. Nc8+ Kf6 6. Bxa4 bxc2 7. Bxc2 Ne7 8. Nxe7
                               Bxc2 9. Nc6 Bd2
  16827342  3:11.1  Mat12 13++ 1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. Nc8+ Kf6
                               5. Nf8 Kg5 6. hxg3 Bxg3 7. Ne6+ Kf6 8. Nb6 Ke7
                               9. Nd5+ Kd6H 10. Nd8H {HT} {-350}
  25092067  4:07.0  Mat12 13t  1. Nd8 Kc5 2. Ne6+ Kd6 3. Nb6 Ke7 4. Nc8+ Kf6
                               5. Nf8 Kg5 6. hxg3 Bxg3 7. Ne6+ Kf6 8. Nb6 Ke7
                               9. Nd5+ Kd6 10. Nd8 Kc5 11. Nb7+ Kd4 12. c3#
                               {-350}

Soon John Merlino will come and show a few seconds for CM :-)

Regards,
Dieter




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