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Subject: Re: Mate in 10..?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:08:46 03/27/04

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On March 27, 2004 at 15:00:12, Johan Havegheer wrote:

>On March 27, 2004 at 14:55:31, Art Basham wrote:
>
>>[D]4Q3/p4pk1/2p3p1/8/3P1N2/4PBR1/q4P1K/r3r3 w - - 0 1
>>
>>I saved this position, but do not have the solution...
>>
>>Does 1. Qe5+ mate in 10?
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>Analysis by The King 3.23S:
>
>+-  (2.15) 1.Pd3 Teb1 2.Th3   00:00:07
>+-  (2.79) 1.De5+ Kg8 2.Pd3 Tf1 3.Db8+ Kg7 4.Lxc6 Txf2+ 5.Pxf2 Dxf2+ 6.Kh3
>00:00:07
>+-  (2.17) 1.De5+ Kg8 2.Pd3 Teb1 3.Lxc6 Dc2   00:00:07
>+-  (2.18) 1.Pd3 Tf1 2.Lxc6 De6   00:00:07
>+-  (4.33) 1.Txg6+ fxg6 2.Pe6+ Dxe6 3.Dxe6 Tf1 4.De7+ Kg8 5.Kg3   00:00:07
>+-  (4.22) 1.Txg6+ fxg6 2.Pe6+ Dxe6 3.Dxe6 Tf1 4.De7+ Kg8 5.Kg3 Ta2   00:00:07
>+-  (4.59) 1.Txg6+ fxg6 2.Pe6+ Dxe6 3.Dxe6 Tf1 4.Kg3 Tg1+ 5.Kf4 Tgf1 6.De7+ Kg8
> 00:00:07
>+-  (99.79) 1.De5+ Kg8 2.Db8+ Kg7 3.Ph5+ Kh7 4.Pf6+ Kg7 5.Pe8+ Kf8 6.Dd6+ Kg8
>7.Txg6+ fxg6 8.Dxg6+ Kf8 9.Dg7+ Kxe8 10.Lxc6+ Kd8 11.Dd7#   00:00:07
>+-  (99.81) 1.De5+ Kg8 2.Db8+ Kg7 3.Ph5+ Kh7 4.Pf6+ Kg7 5.Pe8+ Kf8 6.Pd6+ Ke7
>(
>
>best
>Johan

To translate, this means Mate in 10. I verified that there is no Mate in 9.

jm



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