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Subject: Re: Peculiar Chess Test Position

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 04:31:01 07/18/04

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On July 17, 2004 at 23:54:49, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>[D]3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1
>
>White to play and mate.
>
>Is this a joke or real?
>
>Stuart


Here is a mate in 11:

1.e2-e4 Qd8-g5 2.d2-d4 Qg5-g6 3. Qd1-f3 Qg6-d6 4.Bf1-b5+ Ke8-d8 5.Nb1-c3 Qd6-e7
6.Nc3-d5 Qe7-b4+ 7.Nd5xb4 Kd8-c7 8.Nb4-a6+ Kc7-b7 9.Qf3-f7+ Kb7-b6 10.c2-c4
Kb6-a5 11.Qf7-c7#

After 1.e2-e4 Qd8-g5 2.d2-d4 Qg5-g6 I could verify that a Mate in 9 exist, don't
know whether there are better defending moves for black in the first and second
move. I think CM will solve it in about 12 hours on a modern CPU.

regards Joachim



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