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Subject: Re: Puzzle Position: Mate in (what your engine says?)

Author: Angrim

Date: 00:12:11 08/30/03

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On August 29, 2003 at 06:26:26, Andy Prap wrote:

>There is a puzzle in a Newspaper today where it is said White plays +
>it mates in 5. What your is your engine saying? I think it takes longer than M5,
>as Black has some solutions.
>
>[D] 3rn1k1/pb3p2/1p1rp1p1/2q1N1P1/5P2/2PB4/PP5Q/2KRR3 w - - 0 1
>
>What do you think?

1017866905 nodes evaluated with pn^2 search, and no mate found.
I wonder if any program can solve this in under an hour on current
hardware?
I'll let the search run overnight to get a better idea.

Angrim




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