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Subject: Re: mate in 11 test position

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:18:44 04/19/02

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On April 19, 2002 at 17:38:14, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On April 18, 2002 at 23:20:40, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>
>>Mate in 11.
>>composed by John Kaan
>> [D] rn1b2rk/1pp3p1/qp1p2R1/5Q2/3RN2P/1PP5/3PbP2/4K3 w - - 0 1
>>very difficult for some programs.
>>kburcham
>
>Chest confirms this to be a mate-in-11 with a unique solution key move.
>(Athlon 1500+ with 128 MB hash, 3.1 hours (CM is much faster ;-))
>
>PV: Rdxd6 cxd6 Nxd6 Re8 Nxe8 Nd7 Rxg7 Qa1+ Kxe2 Qd1+ Kxd1 Ra1+ Ke2 Re1+ Kxe1 Nf6
>Rf7 b5 Rf8+ Ng8 Qh5#


Thanks for doing this test!  (I stopped it on my 1.2 GHz system after 10
minutes, and now I'm glad I did because it was not close to finished.)

Quick question: when I refer to your app, should it be in all caps ("CHEST") or
mixed case ("Chest")?



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