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Subject: Re: Can you find the mate

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:10:24 11/24/02

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On November 24, 2002 at 10:54:18, Thomas Blomquist wrote:

>On November 24, 2002 at 10:31:43, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On November 24, 2002 at 09:20:40, Thomas Blomquist wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>[D]1r4r1/3q1npk/2b1pbnp/Rp1p4/1N1P3P/2PQ1pP1/1K3B2/5B1R w - - 0 1
>>>
>>
>>
>>Nice one!  I guessed the first 4 moves myself, but needed the computer for the
>>rest:
>>
>>1.Qxg6+! Kxg6 2.Bd3+ Kh5 3.g4+ Kxg4 4.Rg1+ Kh3
>>
>>   [4...Kf4 5.Bg6 Ne5 6.dxe5 Kxe5
>>      (6...Bxe5 7.Nd3#)
>>    7.Bg3#]
>>
>>5.Bf1+ Kh2 6.Bg3+! Kxg1 7.Ra1 Ra8 8.Rd1 Ra1 9.Rxa1 Ra8 10.Rd1 Ra1
>>11.Rxa1 Qa7 12.Rb1 Qa3+ 13.Kxa3 f2 14.Bh3+ f1Q 15.Rxf1#
>
>
>
>You found it!.I tried this position on my slow comp(Celeron 450mhz)
>with shredder 6.02 no mate yet.How long will it take?
>


As I mentioned, I guessed at the first 4 moves and put them in "by hand"; the
computer helped from there.  I doubt that ANY program on a PC can find this
entire combination from scratch in a reasonable amount of time.


>
>Regards Thomas



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