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Subject: Re: Mate in about 12......good test

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:12:19 05/06/04

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On May 06, 2004 at 14:59:35, Rob Basham wrote:

>Hi John....sorry about that...:-)
>
>it just finds Qh6 with no mate ann.
>
>I am just guessing it is about 12 moves to mate from what I can see
>after....BXQ.....etc.
>
>thanks..
>Rob

Ok, that's what I thought. Even after forcing 1.Qh6 Bxh6 2.Rxh6 g5 3.Bd3, CM_SKR
does not announce a mate in under two minutes, and I would have been pretty
surprised if Ruffian could have accomplished that.

CM_SKR on an AMD 2500+ finds Qh6 in 3 seconds:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	1.37	2800		1.Qh4 Nh5 2.Bxg7 Kxg7 3.gxh5 bxc3
					4.hxg6 fxg6
0:00	1/4	0.91	7011		1.Qh4 Nh5 2.Bxg7 Kxg7 3.axb4
0:00	1/5	0.47	37466		1.Qh4 Nh5 2.Bxg7 bxa3 3.gxh5 axb2+
					4.Kb1 Kxg7 5.Bxa6 Qxc3 6.Bxc8 Rxc8
					7.hxg6 fxg6
0:00	1/5	0.65	60499		1.axb4 Rxb4 2.Bxf6 exf6 3.Qh4 f5
					4.Bxa6 Rcb8
0:00	1/6	0.65	153567		1.axb4 Rxb4 2.Bxf6 exf6 3.Qh4 f5
					4.Bxa6 Rcb8
0:02	1/7	0.45	591402		1.axb4 Rxb4 2.Bxf6 exf6 3.Qh4 f5
					4.Bxa6 Rcb8 5.g5 Kf8
0:03	1/7	2.66	851926		1.Qh6 Bxh6+ 2.Rxh6 g5 3.Bd3 Bf5
					4.Nd5 Qb7 5.gxf5 e5 6.Nxf6+ Kf8
0:05	1/8	7.86	1560145		1.Qh6 Bxh6+ 2.Rxh6 g5 3.Bd3 Bf5
					4.exf5 e5 5.fxe6ep fxe6 6.Rg6+
					Qg7 7.Bxf6 Qxg6 8.Bxg6
0:10	1/9	10.27	3133408		1.Qh6 Bxh6+ 2.Rxh6 g5 3.Bd3 Bf5
					4.Bxf6 exf6 5.gxf5 Kf8 6.Nd5 Qxc2+
					7.Bxc2 Ke8 8.Rh8+ Kd7 9.Rxc8 Kxc8
					10.Rh8+ Kb7 11.Rxb8+ Kxb8 12.Nxb4
0:24	1/10	10.36	7627723		1.Qh6 Bxh6+ 2.Rxh6 g5 3.Bd3 Qc6
					4.Rh8+ Kg7 5.R1h7+ Kg6 6.e5+ Ne4
					7.Nxe4 Qxc2+ 8.Bxc2 Rxc2+ 9.Kxc2
					Rxh8 10.Rxh8 dxe5 11.Bxe5 f6 12.Nc5
					Bd5
0:51	1/11	10.32	17030905	1.Qh6 Bxh6+ 2.Rxh6 g5 3.Bd3 Qc6
					4.Rh8+ Kg7 5.R1h7+ Kg6 6.e5+ Ne4
					7.Nxe4 Qxc2+ 8.Bxc2 Rxc2+ 9.Kxc2
					Rxh8 10.Rxh8 bxa3 11.bxa3 dxe5
					12.Bxe5 f6 13.Nc5 Bd5

My best estimate is that there is not a mate in even 15 moves, although a
particularly long think with CM during my lunch break might prove me wrong.

jm



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