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Subject: Re: Mate in 5.....? - no!....thanks

Author: Rob Basham

Date: 11:13:23 03/04/05

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On March 04, 2005 at 13:06:30, F. Huber wrote:

>On March 04, 2005 at 12:45:22, Rob Basham wrote:
>
>>I am working on the excellent diagram test moves that Bill posted recently...
>>
>>but this one seems to not be a "mate in 5"..at least for my chess engines and
>>programs...:-)
>>
>>Anyone here solve this one yet?
>>
>>[D]r3r3/pp2qpkp/3R3p/2p5/P3p3/1P5P/2PQ1PP1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Fritz 8 says....1. Qxh6+...but shows no mate in 5...etc.
>>
>>Rob
>
>Hi Rob,
>
>I´ve tried it for some minutes with ChestUCI in brute-force mode:
>definitely no mate in 7, probably not even in 8 (all ´interesting´ moves
>have already been tested) -
>so if this is a mate at all, then certainly higher than 8!
>
>But since not even TheKing sees something like that, I doubt about it!
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Ok thanks Franz...
maybe there is an error in the position...:-)

Bill will have to correct that one...:-)

rob



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