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Subject: Re: Mate in 8...

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 08:23:05 03/25/03

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On March 24, 2003 at 16:34:16, John Merlino wrote:

>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

Chest confirms that (Athlon 1500+, 135 secs).  1.Qe5 is the only solution:

PV: Qe5 Re7 Rf4+ Rf7 Qb8+ Qe8 Qd6+ Qe7 Rxf7+ Kxf7 Bg6+ Kf8 Qb8+ Qe8 Qxe8#

Cheers,
Heiner



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