Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 10:16:33 05/15/04
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On May 15, 2004 at 13:09:01, F. Huber wrote: >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. Yes, you are right. Sorry for the confusion. My current version has a bug (I have made substantial changes recently). Now searching for the problem cause... Cheers, Heiner
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