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Subject: Re: Mate in 14

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:48:02 07/03/02

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On July 03, 2002 at 20:02:44, Art Basham wrote:

>White Mates in 14, I think.. :-)
>
>This is a problem I made up just to see what the computors would do,
>so I am not sure what the correct first move is...:-)
>
>It is probably Qf5+ or Qh5+..etc.
>
>and then later on - Ne3! opens the g file..etc.
>
>[D]r3rb2/p1p2p1k/5P2/1p6/6Q1/q2p4/6NP/5R1K w - -
>
>Maybe John Marlino with his CM9000 will find a shorter way to mate!

Phalanx:

r3rb2/p1p2p1k/5P2/1p6/6Q1/q2p4/6NP/5R1K w - - bm Qf5+ Qh5+;
    -> increment adds 1440 s to soft time limit
    -> soft time limit 3154.28 s
    -> hard time limit 41599.9 s
    -> easy move      (1)  Qg4-f5
  5 ->   0:00.51    64122   0 turns
  6     31    61    79210  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5
  6 ->   0:01.18   163694   0 turns
  7     31   156   217384  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5
  7 ->   0:03.70   539456   0 turns
  8     31   476   707118  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5
  8 ->   0:09.16  1401887   0 turns
  9     31  1116  1746994  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5
  9 ->   0:20.78  3378368   0 turns
 10     31  2631  4344384  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5
 10 ->   0:50.92  8149453   0 turns
 11     31  7165 11393576  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5
 11 ->   2:17.56 22084411   0 turns
 12     31 20149 32182849  Qg4-f5  Kh7-g8  Qf5-g5  Kg8-h7  Qg5-f5



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