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Subject: Re: Worlds toughest mate in 4

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 16:15:29 10/16/03

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On October 16, 2003 at 18:50:32, William Kerr wrote:

>Post a tougher one than this if you know of one.

This mate in 3 is much tougher for Yace

[D] 8/1B6/8/5p2/8/8/5Qrq/1K1R2bk w - -

Actually it needed 27 minutes to find a mate in 3 on P4 2.53 GHz ...
I ran it in the background, forgot HT size. I saved this:

 432058330 14:35.3  Mat03 12++ 1.Qa7 f4 2.Bf3 Qg3H 3.Qxg1#H {270}
 432060376 14:35.3  Mat03 12t  1.Qa7 f4 2.Bf3 Qg3 3.Qxg1# {270}

It is a null move issue (with slightly different eval and/or search rules, it
can be found very fast).

Qa7 was refuted at depth 11 by:

  23530854  36.988  18.99 11x  1.Qa7 null 2.Rd7 null 3.Bxg2+ Qxg2 4.Rh7+ Bh2
                               5.Rxh2+ Qxh2 6.Qb7+ Qg2 7.Qf3 Qxf3 {HT} {-1081}

Regards,
Dieter



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