Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:32:21 05/31/02
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On May 31, 2002 at 10:07:39, Art Basham wrote: >This old chess problem takes my Junior5 20 ply before it ann. mate in 5... > >Fritz7 ann. mate in 32, and then changes it to mate in 16....?! > >Some engines do not find 1. Be5 at all...sorry to say...; > >have some fun with this neat problem from 1875. > >[D]7k/8/5N1P/8/8/5bp1/8/B5K1 w - - Chessmaster 9000 announces Mate in 5 in one second on a PIII-733: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 2/3 5.96 810 1.Ne4+ Kh7 2.Ng5+ Kxh6 3.Nxf3 Kg6 4.Be5 0:00 2/3 5.96 810 1.Ne4+ Kh7 2.Ng5+ Kxh6 3.Nxf3 Kg6 4.Be5 0:00 3/4 5.88 1875 1.Ne4+ Kh7 2.Ng5+ Kxh6 3.Nxf3 Kh5 4.Be5 Kg4 0:00 4/5 5.88 6054 1.Ne4+ Kh7 2.Ng5+ Kxh6 3.Nxf3 Kh5 4.Be5 Kg4 0:00 5/6 5.88 14596 1.Ne4+ Kh7 2.Ng5+ Kxh6 3.Nxf3 Kh5 4.Be5 Kg4 5.Kg2 0:00 5/6 9.06 22959 1.Be5 Bh1 2.Ng4+ Kg8 3.Kxh1 Kh7 4.Bxg3 0:00 6/7 9.56 44202 1.Be5 Bh1 2.Ng4+ Kg8 3.Kxh1 Kh7 4.Kg2 Kg6 5.Kxg3 0:01 7/8 Mate05 91985 1.Be5 Bh1 2.Bxg3 Bc6 3.Bd6 Be4 4.Bf8 Bc6 5.Bg7# 0:01 8/9 Mate05 112745 1.Be5 Bh1 2.Bxg3 Bc6 3.Bd6 Be4 4.Bf8 Bc6 5.Bg7# 0:01 9/10 Mate05 133454 1.Be5 Bh1 2.Bxg3 Bc6 3.Bd6 Be4 4.Bf8 Bc6 5.Bg7#
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