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Subject: Re: MAT IN 19 OR LESS Mate in 17 !!!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 04:07:26 03/09/05

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On March 08, 2005 at 16:35:44, Olaf Jenkner wrote:

> 1.Le4-d3 Be5-e4  2.Ld3-e4 Be6-e5  3.Le4-d3 Be5-e4  4.Ld3-e4 Se8-d6  5.Le4-d3
>Sd6-e4  6.Ld3-e4 Sg8-f6
> 7.Le4-d3 Sf6-e4  8.Ld3-e4 La6-b7  9.Le4-d3 Lb7-e4 10.Tb4-b5 Td8-d5 11.Tb5-d5
>Dh6-d6 12.Sf7-d6 Kf4-g5
>13.Sd2-e4 Kg5-h5 14.Se4-f6 Be7-f6 15.Ld3-e4 Ta8-g8 16.Le4-f3 Tg8-g4
>17.Lf3-g4/Bh3-g4#
>
>OJe

Hello Olaf,
Since you claim it's a mate in 17 instead of 19 something is wrong somewhere!
Chest says it's mate in 19 and the first deviation from Chest in your line is
4....Nd6?   Since this leads to a mate in 17 how can it be considered optimal?
Can you prove that Chest 4....e5 is not optimal?
Jim



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