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Subject: Re: Mate in 10

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 17:31:51 04/20/02

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On April 20, 2002 at 19:23:45, Dan Ellwein wrote:

>On April 20, 2002 at 12:56:06, Art Basham wrote:
>
>>White wins by Rg8..! (good test move)...
>>
>>[D]3R4/5r1p/5ppk/8/1Q3PPq/5P2/6K1/8 w - - bm Rg8; id Quick-08;
>
>on a 400Mhz Celeron computer CMLite finds mate in 10 in
>8 min 19 sec...
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:30	2/12	4.33	1734035		1. Rd1 Kg7 2. Rh1 Qxh1+ 3. Kxh1
>					Rd7 4. Kg2 Kf7 5. Kf2 Re7 6. Qc4+
>					Kg7 7. Qc5 Kf8 8. Kg3
>8:19	2/12	Mate13	27360287	1. Rg8 f5 2. g5+ Kh5 3. Qd6 Qxg5+
>					4. fxg5 Kxg5 5. f4+ Kg4 6. Qd3
>					Kxf4 7. Qg3+ Ke4 8. Rd8 f4 9. Qd3+
>					Ke5 10. Rd5+ Kf6 11. Qd4+ Ke7 12.
>					Qe5+ Kf8 13. Rd8#


Actually, it seems to find a Mate in 13. So is this problem a Mate in 13, or is
there a solution for the Mate in 10? John Merlino earlier posted CM's solution,
which was also a Mate in 13. So perhaps this is a Mate in 13. Anyone found a
Mate in 10?

kp

• Re: Mate in 10 Ignacio Santos Crespo 05:16:10 04/21/02
  • Re: Mate in 10 Dan Ellwein 19:15:55 04/21/02
    • Re: Mate in 10 Ignacio Santos Crespo 04:41:12 04/22/02
      • Re: Mate in 10 Dan Ellwein 17:48:07 04/22/02
  • Re: Mate in 10 Heiner Marxen 14:58:08 04/21/02
  • So it is a Mate in 10 Keith Ian Price 10:10:50 04/21/02

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