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Subject: Re: Mate in about 10, actually mate in 9!

Author: F. Huber

Date: 10:09:01 05/15/04

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On May 15, 2004 at 12:35:31, F. Huber wrote:

>On May 15, 2004 at 11:34:04, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>According to Chest this actually is a mate in 9:
>>
>>PV: Qc7 Bf6 Rxe7+ Bxe7 Re3 Qf1+ Kxf1 Re6 Qc8+ Bd8 Rxe6+ fxe6 Qd7+ Kf8 Nxe6+ Kg8
>>Qg7#
>>
>>I didn't ask for a solution tree, but the "refutation table" shows:
>>refu 43: Qc7     Bf6     [   7-]
>>solu          1: Bxd4+   [   6+]
>>solu          2: Qf1+    [   6+]
>>solu          3: Bh6     [   1+]
>>solu          4: Re6     [   1+]
>>solu          5: Rg6     [   1+]
>>solu          6: Qc4     [   1+]
>>solu          7: Qxc5    [   1+]
>>solu          8: h4      [   1+]
>>solu          9: Rg8     [   1+]
>>solu         10: Rf8     [   1+]
>>solu         11: Rh7     [   1+]
>>solu         12: Rhh6    [   1+]
>>solu         13: Rf6     [   1+]
>>solu         14: Rdh6    [   1+]
>>solu         15: f6      [   1+]
>>solu         16: e6      [   6+]
>>solu         17: e5      [   6+]
>>solu         18: b6      [   1+]
>>solu         19: Bf6     [   8+]
>>solu         20: Bf8     [   4+]
>>solu         21: Kf8     [   2+]
>>solu         22: Be5     [   6+]
>>solu         23: Rd7     [   2+]
>>solu         24: Rd8     [   1+]
>>solu         25: Qb6     [   1+]
>>solu         26: Qe2     [   6+]
>>solu         27: Qd3     [   1+]
>>solu         28: Qa6     [   1+]
>>solu         29: Qa5     [   1+]
>>solu         30: Qxb4    [   1+]
>>solu         31: Qa4     [   1+]
>>So, Bf6 appears to be the best answer, all other moves result in shorter mates.
>>
>>Since it starts with a quiet move, it is hard to find, of course.
>>[Chest needed 1 hour with 100MB hash on an Athlon 1500+]
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Heiner
>
>Hello Heiner,
>
>what I´m missing in your refutation list is the black castling!?
>(after 1.Qc7 black has actually 32 moves)
>
>Maybe you forgot the castling right when copying the FEN string (?),
>this was the FEN in the original posting:
>
>4k2r/1p2ppb1/2pr4/QqNp1P1p/1P1P4/2P2R2/P5PP/4R1K1 w k - 0 1
>
>Eventually exactly this 1... 0-0 would be the only defence against 1.Qc7 -
>Chest is just calculating on this position on my faster desktop, and I´m
>really curious about the result ...
>
>Best regards,
>Franz.

Yes, exactly this black castling was the _key_ move -
here is Chest´s result:

ChestUCI Ver.3.5  UCI1:

CPU: Pentium-4 2.66GHz
FEN: 4k2r/1p2ppb1/2pr4/QqNp1P1p/1P1P4/2P2R2/P5PP/4R1K1 w k -
Suche nach Matt in 9 ...  (Hash=384MB)
Suche abgeschlossen ...  (Zeit=2029.28s)
Kein Matt in 9 gefunden !  (33:49)

Best regards,
Franz.



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