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Subject: Re: Worlds toughest mate in 4

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 10:47:54 10/17/03

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

>
>Worlds toughest until someone finds a tougher one.
>
>After timing engines solving many mates in four, this one was by far the
>toughest.
>
>[D] 8/3p1p2/5Ppp/K2R2bk/4pPrr/6Pp/4B2P/3N4 w - - bm Nc3;id #1097 mate in 4
>very-very tough;
>
>This is a composed mate in 4 problem from Benko's Baffler's #1097.
>
>Most engines take a very long time to find the mate in 4.
>
>For PC programs with no CPU speed mentioned were run on a P2 300 Mhz.
>Morphy was from the Great Game system 6502 at 2 Mhz.
>
>m6 = anounced mate in 6
>no solve is usually 10 minutes
>
>Chessmaster 9000 6:14 m11, 8:51 m6, 9:59 m4
>crafty no solve
>pocket fritz < 44 sec
>yace < 7 min m11, 26:30 m4
>ruffian 1.0.0 no solve
>bringer 15 min no solve
>rebel10 17 sec m6, 37 sec m4
>uscf 5 sec
>morphy 5:27
>rebel12 no solve 7:00
>ruffian 1.0.1 1:53 m11
>fritz532 3:21 m8 Nc3
>pocket genius 3 min no solve
>pocket grandmaster 6 min Ne3 +12.26 12/51
>extreme 2:54 m6 16/34
>doctor3 15 sec m4
>sargon4  5 sec m4 (old PC chess program)
>lg2kv2.7 10 min no solve
>wkchess 33 sec
>yacepdb 30 sec m4
>Novag sapphire ii 1:33 m5
>Novag star diamond 0:55 m5
>Chessmaster 9000 1.7 Ghz AMD 0:42 m11, 0:59 m6, 1:06 m4
>
>Post a tougher one than this if you know of one.
>
>Bill

not really tough. BamBam needs 2 seconds:

New game
8/3p1p2/5Ppp/K2R2bk/4pPrr/6Pp/4B2P/3N4 w - - 0 1

Analysis by BamBam:

1.gxh4
  =  (0.05)   Depth: 1   00:00:00
1.gxh4 Kxh4
  +-  (3.69)   Depth: 2   00:00:00
1.gxh4 Kxh4 2.Bxg4
  +-  (3.69)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
1.gxh4 Kxh4 2.Bxg4 Bxf4
  +-  (3.69)   Depth: 4   00:00:00  3kN
1.fxg5 hxg5 2.gxh4 d6
  +-  (4.20)   Depth: 4   00:00:00  5kN
1.fxg5 hxg5 2.gxh4 Kxh4 3.Bxg4
  +-  (4.79)   Depth: 5   00:00:00  19kN
1.fxg5 hxg5 2.Ne3 Kh6 3.Nxg4+ Rxg4 4.Bxg4
  +-  (5.16)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  87kN
1.Ne3 d6 2.gxh4 Kxh4 3.fxg5 hxg5
  +-  (7.40)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  226kN
1.Ne3 d6 2.fxg5 hxg5 3.gxh4 Kxh4 4.Bxg4
  +-  (7.40)   Depth: 7   00:00:01  445kN
1.Nc3 e3
  +-  (#5)   Depth: 7   00:00:01  782kN
1.Nc3 e3 2.Rb5 d6 3.Nd5 Bxf4 4.Nxf4#
  +-  (#4)   Depth: 8   00:00:02  1233kN
1.Nc3 e3 2.Rb5 d6 3.Nd5 Bxf4 4.Nxf4#
  +-  (#4)   Depth: 9   00:00:06  4544kN
1.Nc3 e3 2.Rb5 d6 3.Nd5 Bxf4 4.Nxf4#
  +-  (#4)   Depth: 10   00:00:19  13625kN



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