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Subject: Re: Some difficult problems from BWTC

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 15:56:08 12/08/03

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Zappa more or less agrees with you:

[D]2k4r/1pp1q1p1/2n1b3/1Q3p1p/2Pr2n1/6P1/3NPPBP/R4RK1 w - -

1. Bxc6 bxc6 2. Qxc6 Kd8 3. Ra8 Bc8 4. Rxc8 Kxc8 5. Ra1 Qb4 6. Ra8 Qb8 7. Qe6
Rd7 8. Qa6 Kd8 9. Rxb8 Ke7 10. Rxh8 Rxd2 11. Rxh5 Rxe2 12. Rxf5
 = (7.88)	Depth: 7/21	00:00:00.67	335722kN
1. Bxc6 bxc6 2. Qxc6 Kd8 3. Ra8 Bc8 4. Rxc8 Kxc8 5. Ra1 Qb4 6. Ra8 Qb8 7. Qe6
Rd7 8. Qa6 Kd8 9. Rxb8 Ke7 10. Rxh8 Rxd2 11. Qg6 Nf6 12. Qxg7 Ke6 13. e3
 = (8.47)	Depth: 11/33	00:00:16.68	9549532kN

[D]r1bq1r2/ppp2pkp/3p2nn/2bN2NQ/2B1P3/8/PPp3PP/R1B2R1K w - -

1. Nf6 Qxf6 2. Rxf6 Kxf6 3. Nxh7 Ke7 4. Nxf8 Nxf8 5. Qxh6 Ne6 6. Qh4 Ke8 7. Bh6
c1=Q 8. Rxc1
 = (5.73)	Depth: 10/25	00:00:37.57	17842194kN
1. Nxh7++
 + (5.88)	Depth: 10/28	00:01:25.60	40810260kN
1. Nxh7 Ng4 2. Ng5 Qxg5 3. Qxg5 Be6 4. b3 f6 5. Nxf6 Nf2
 = (6.46)	Depth: 10/24	00:01:36.13	45306857kN

I think its safe to say Bxc6 is a solution to the first, and both Nf6 and Nxh7
are solutions to the second.  I don't really like these problems where there are
15 different winning moves.

anthony



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