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Subject: Re: Mate in 8...

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:34:16 03/24/03

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On March 24, 2003 at 15:57:55, Art Basham wrote:

>Here is a neat position...
>1. Qe5 wins..!
>
>[D]5k2/3q1rpB/4Q2p/p7/1p1pR2P/1Pb3P1/P4P2/6K1 w - - 0 1
>
>Maybe there is a program that announces mate at move 1...!

It takes Chessmaster 9000 four seconds on a P3-750 to announce Mate in 8:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	0.56	2410		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Rf4+ Ke8
0:00	1/4	1.52	4299		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Rf4+ Ke8
					4.Bg6+ Kd7
0:00	1/5	8.88	12505		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Rf4+ Ke8
					4.Qc6+ Qd7 5.Bg6+ Rf7 6.Qxd7+ Kxd7
					7.Rxf7+ Kd6 8.Rxg7
0:00	1/6	8.88	34191		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Rf4+ Ke8
					4.Qc6+ Qd7 5.Bg6+ Rf7 6.Qxd7+ Kxd7
					7.Rxf7+ Kd6 8.Rxg7
0:00	1/7	8.88	64472		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Rf4+ Ke8
					4.Qc6+ Qd7 5.Bg6+ Rf7 6.Qxd7+ Kxd7
					7.Rxf7+ Kd6 8.Rxg7
0:01	1/8	12.15	187581		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Rf4+ Ke8
					4.Qb5+ Qd7 5.Bg6+ Rf7 6.Re4+ Kd8
					7.Qb8+ Qc8 8.Re8+ Kxe8 9.Qxc8+
					Ke7 10.Qc7+ Ke6 11.Qxf7+ Kd6 12.Qxg7
0:04	1/9	Mate08	523484		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Bg6 Qe8
					4.Qf5+ Kg8 5.Rxe7 Qxe7 6.Qd5+ Kf8
					7.Qa8+ Qe8 8.Qxe8#
0:06	2/10	Mate08	837712		1.Qe5 Qd8 2.Qc5+ Re7 3.Bg6 Qe8
					4.Qf5+ Kg8 5.Rxe7 Qxe7 6.Qd5+ Kf8
					7.Qa8+ Qe8 8.Qxe8#

jm



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