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Subject: Re: an easy (?) mate in 11

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 08:16:55 12/11/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 06:44:17, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 11, 2002 at 04:49:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 11, 2002 at 00:29:27, Mike S. wrote:
>>
>>>In this study, Black has either only one legal move (1st-7th), or there is only
>>>one move which avoids immediate mate (8th/9th):
>>>
>>>Kok,T - [+3350.47g2b7]
>>>td06 {v}, 1938
>>>[D]qrb5/pk1p4/p2Pp3/p3Pp2/B4P2/1P6/5pK1/6B1 w - - 0 1
>>>1.Kxf2 Kb6 2.Ke2+ Kb7 3.Ke3 Kb6 4.Kd3+ Kb7 5.Kd4 Kb6 6.Kc4+ Kb7 7.b4 axb4 8.Bd1
>>>a5 9.Kb5 a6+ 10.Ka4 Qa7 11.Bf3# 1-0
>>>
>>>P3/700 MHz, 64 MB hash:
>>
>>It is even more simple
>>all the moves are only one legal move(1-10)
>>
>>8.Kxb4 a5+ 9.Kxa5 a6 10.Bd1 Qa7 11.Bf3#
>>It seems that all the moves are only moves.
>>
>>Uri
>
>All the moves except the last move
>I see that Qa7 is not single and there is also Kc6.
>
>This+some pruning may explain the fact that movei needs more time then I
>expected.
>
>Maybe I will fix it so next movei will be able to solve it more easily.
>
>I see that by changing some pruning parameters I can get it at depth 8.
>
>Uri

According to some posted analysis, there is more than one move for white at move
8.




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