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Subject: Re:Slightly deeper mate.

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 11:03:02 10/21/03

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On October 18, 2003 at 10:09:03, F. Huber wrote:

>On October 18, 2003 at 09:36:35, leonid wrote:
>
>>On October 17, 2003 at 23:09:34, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>>If somebody want slightly deeper position then try this:
>>>>
>>>>[D] 1R2NnqN/3pPpQ1/b3nPpp/K2R2bk/4pPrr/6Pp/4B2P/3N4 w - -
>>>>
>>>>Please indicate Your result.
>>>>
>>>>Leonid.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Dell Axim Pocket 400 WM 2003 ROM 05 16 MB hash Oc to 472 Mhz
>>>Pocket Chess Genius 1.5
>>>
>>>Mate-in-8 in 52 seconds (I think it may be shorter)
>>
>>I just don't know what will be the shortest one and expected that somebody will
>>find it. My program solved this position only by selective search, like Your in
>>8 moves. By brute force I verified only 5 moves and found that it is no mate
>>there. To go deeper could be expensive with my program that use no hash.
>>
>>Leonid.
>
>Hi Leonid,
>
>it´s a mate in 7 (with a few solutions, 4 if I remember right), as my
>ChestUCI found in about 15 min (on my slow Celeron/400 - should be less
>than 3 min on a CPU of today).
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Five solutions:
PV: Rxg5+ hxg5 exf8=Q Qxf8 Qh7+ Qh6 Ng7+ Nxg7 Qxh6+ Kxh6 Nxf7+ Kh7 Rh8#
PV: exf8=Q Qxf8 Rxg5+ hxg5 Qh7+ Qh6 Ng7+ Nxg7 Qxh6+ Kxh6 Nxf7+ Kh7 Rh8#
PV: Nxf7 Qxf7 exf8=Q Qxf8 Rxg5+ Nxg5 Qxf8 Ne6 f7 g5 f5 e3 Nf6#
PV: Ne3 Nxg7 Nxg7+ Qxg7 fxg7 f5 g8=N d6 e8=N Bd8+ Rxd8 g5 Ngf6#
PV: Kxa6 Nc7+ Nxc7 Qxg7 fxg7 Ne6 Nxe6 dxe6 Rxg5+ hxg5 Nxf7 gxf4 Rh8#

Cheers,
Heiner



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