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Subject: Re: Mate in 5, 6, 7, or 8 - it´s mate in 5!

Author: F. Huber

Date: 07:28:07 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 09:17:20, Rob Basham wrote:

>[D]2r5/p4p2/1p3Nk1/4Q3/8/P7/5PPP/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
>
>My Junior 5 shows all 4 solutions at the same time!
>
>In fact, there are two solutions for mate in 6..!
>
>I don't understand how one engine can "think" in four or more directions
>at the same time!......:-)
>
>Rob

Hi Rob,

it´s definitely a mate in 5 (with 2 solutions):

ChestUCI Ver.3.5  UCI1:

CPU: Celeron 400MHz
FEN: 2r5/p4p2/1p3Nk1/4Q3/8/P7/5PPP/3R2K1 w - -
Search for Mate in 10 ...  (Hash=62MB)
 5   00:07  M5  1.Sg4
 5   00:08  M5  1.Sh5
Search completed ...  (Time=9.17s)
Mate in 5 found !  (00:09)
1.Nh5 Rc1 2.Qf6+ Kxh5 3.Rxc1 Kg4 4.h3+ Kh5 5.g4#
1.Ng4 Kh7 2.Qf6 Kg8 3.Nh6+ Kh7 4.Nf5 Kg8 5.Qg7#
2 Solutions  (Mate in 5)

Don´t you have ChestUCI? Or don´t you even know this mate solver?
Then you should really have a look a it -
http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/Chest/chest.html
and you´ll never have to ask such questions any more! ;-)

Regards,
Franz.




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