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Subject: Re: A cute mate from Colin's checkmate composer

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:24:40 06/21/02

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On June 21, 2002 at 14:53:30, Robin Smith wrote:

>On June 21, 2002 at 01:30:11, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>[D]8/6p1/p1N2pPk/p5b1/4K1P1/5P2/P7/8 w - - acn 284; acs 0; bm Kf5; ce 32762; dm
>>3; id "Mate in 3 Test 3"; pv Kf5 a4 Nd8 a3 Nf7#;
>
>
>This composition certainly won't win any prizes.  The pawns on a2, a5, a6 & f3,
>are all irrelevant to the solution, on white's second move either Nd8 or Ne7
>leads to a mate in 3, the moves leading to mate are all the most obvious moves
>available, and black has no defensive tries that in any way affect whites plan.

Even so, it's pretty cute for something with no human thought involved.

>BTW, what is "Colin's checkmate composer"?
On here:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/beowulf.html

Find this:
* Utilities
Download Xboard and WinBoard by Tim Mann
Download my Checkmate Test Generation Program    Source Code

And click on the "Checkmate Test Generation Program" link.



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