Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:18:52 03/07/04
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On March 07, 2004 at 17:29:33, Art Basham wrote:
>[D]r4r1k/pbq3p1/1ppbpn1p/3p4/1P1B2NQ/P1P5/2B3PP/3R1R1K w - - 0 1
>
>See if your program can announce a mate in 10 at move one...
>beginning with 1. RxN...etc.
>
>(BxN may also be a win, not sure),,,
How certain are you that there is a forced mate in 10 moves? I let Chessmaster
9000, SKR personality on a P4-2.4, go for more than an hour and it did not find
ANY mate at all.
I then forced 1.Rxf6 Rxf6 {forced} 2.Bxf6 {a guess, but it sure seems like the
right continuation} Bf4, and the program found NO forced mate in 8 moves from
this position.
So, unless I was wrong about 2.Bxf6, there is no forced mate in 10 moves. If you
have a line, please post it.
jm
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