Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 04:59:55 07/18/04
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On July 18, 2004 at 05:30:16, Joachim Rang wrote: >On July 18, 2004 at 05:21:56, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >>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 >> >>Very real >> >>Chessmaster 10 (TheKing 3.33), AMD barton@3000+, 64 MB hash : >> >>Time Depth Score Positions Moves >>0:01 1/9 31.30 304669 1.e3 Kd7 2.Qg4+ Kc7 3.Nc3 Kb8 4.Qb4+ >> Ka8 5.Ba6 Qc7 6.Nf3 Qc6 >>0:02 1/10 31.47 538504 1.e3 Kd7 2.Qg4+ Kc7 3.Nc3 Kb8 4.Bb5 >> Qd6 5.Qg8+ Ka7 6.Nf3 Qe7 >>0:05 1/11 31.57 1234684 1.e3 Kd7 2.Qg4+ Kc7 3.Nc3 Kb8 4.Qb4+ >> Kc7 5.Nf3 Kc8 6.Ba6+ Kd7 7.Qd4+ >> Ke8 8.Bb5+ Ke7 9.Qxd8+ Kxd8 >>0:15 1/12 31.70 3626176 1.e3 Kd7 2.Qg4+ Kc7 3.Nc3 Qd7 4.Qxd7+ >> Kxd7 5.Nf3 Ke7 6.Bd3 Kd6 7.h3 Ke7 >>0:33 2/13 31.88 8311544 1.e3 Kd7 2.Qg4+ Kc7 3.Nc3 Qd7 4.Qxd7+ >> Kxd7 5.Nf3 Ke7 6.Bd3 Kf7 7.b3 Kf6 >> 8.Ba3 >>2:52 2/13 32.21 51643257 1.e4 Qg5 2.Nc3 Qg6 3.Qf3 Qf7 4.Bb5+ >> Kf8 5.Qxf7+ Kxf7 6.Nf3 Ke6 7.d3 >> Kf7 8.Be3 Ke7 >>3:57 2/14 37.34 72214796 1.e4 Qg5 2.d4 Qg6 3.Qf3 Kd7 4.Qh3+ >> Ke7 5.Qa3+ Kf7 6.Bc4+ Ke8 7.Qa8+ >> Kd7 8.Qb7+ Ke8 9.Bf7+ Qxf7 10.Qc8+ >> Ke7 11.Bg5+ Qf6 12.Qc7+ Ke8 13.Bxf6 >>9:58 2/15 Mate15 208018481 1.e4 Qg5 2.d4 Qg6 3.Qf3 Kd7 4.Bb5+ >> Kc7 5.Bf4+ Kb7 6.Qa3 Qxe4+ 7.Ne2 >> Qe6 8.Ba6+ Kb6 9.c4 Qf5 10.c5+ >> Qxc5 11.dxc5+ Kc6 12.Qa4+ Kd5 13.Qc4+ >> Kc6 14.Qe6+ Kxc5 15.Qd6# >>18:46 3/16 Mate13 408438953 1.e4 Qg5 2.d4 Qg6 3.Qf3 Kd7 4.Bb5+ >> Kc7 5.Bf4+ Kb7 6.Qb3 Qxe4+ 7.Ne2 >> Qc6 8.Qf7+ Kb6 9.Bxc6 Kxc6 10.Qc7+ >> Kb5 11.Qb7+ Ka5 12.Bd2+ Ka4 13.Qa6# >>1:12:17 3/17 Mate12 1714468734 1.e4 Qg5 2.Qf3 Qg6 3.Bb5+ Ke7 4.d4 >> Qf6 5.Qh3 Qxd4 6.Qh7+ Kf6 7.Be8 >> Qb4+ 8.Nc3 Qa5 9.Qf7+ Ke5 10.Nf3+ >> Kd6 11.Qd7+ Kc5 12.Qd4# > > >Sure there is not a mate in 11? After 1.e4 Qg5 2. d4 Qg6 CM 3.23 announces mate >in 11 on my machine. Too bad that CM does not support backward analysis and does >not use its Hashtables of previous searches. > >regards Joachim I don't remember , I ran this position some month ago with CM9000... You're probably right, but we can't verify in the archive now :(
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