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Subject: Re: mate in 5....Good Engine Test

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 18:32:58 01/27/05

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On January 27, 2005 at 19:58:20, Rob Basham wrote:

>2N3N1/8/4k3/1B4B1/8/4PP2/2K5/8 w - - 0 1
>
>End game study...
>
>Junior5 takes 56 sec. to find....Nh6!
>..not Bc4+..etc.

That's amazing, I would think Junior would find it in 0 sec.  Here's monsoon
(AMD 1.2ghz, 1 cpu):

 2/6 + +22.43      00:00.461    143054           Be8!! ++
 2/6   +23.68      00:00.534    163876           Be8 Kf5 f4 Ke4 Nf6+ Kxe3 f5+
Ke2 Bb5+ Kf2
 2/6   +MATE4      00:00.603    183985           Nh6 Kd5 Bd7 Kc5 Be7+ Kd5
 3/7   +MATE4      00:01.324    479608           Nh6 Kd5 Bd7 Kc5 Be7+ Kd5
 4/8   +MATE5      00:05.883    2499926          Be8 Kf5 Be7 Ke6 Nf6 Ke5
 4/8   +MATE4      00:09.295    3905312          Nh6 Kd5 Bd7 Kc5 Be7+ Kd5
 5/9   +MATE5      00:14.782    6536363          Be8 Kf5 Be7 Ke6 Nf6 Ke5 Bf7 Kf5
 5/9   +MATE4      00:21.499    10977544         Nh6 Kd5 Bd7 Kc5 Be7+ Kd5
FORCED MATE --> stop searching now



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