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Subject: Re: another mate-in-16 from the archives...

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 11:10:26 03/30/05

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On March 30, 2005 at 09:18:13, F. Huber wrote:

>On March 30, 2005 at 06:50:39, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On March 30, 2005 at 06:47:25, F. Huber wrote:
>>
>>>On March 30, 2005 at 06:21:02, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>>8/8/8/2p5/R1P5/P5p1/P3K1p1/6k1 w - - bm #16; 00:00 @ C0/R0/K3/P1/X2;
>>>>
>>>>this 00:00 is misleading - actually it takes 00:45 in my P2400 to solution
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>Sorry, but also your 00:45 is misleading! ;-)
>>>
>>>It depends on what settings you´ve made _before_ starting the automatic mode -
>>>if you look at the position, it´s clear that ´ChecksOnly´ and ´Threats´ can
>>>be switched OFF, and if you set ´SearchOrder=XPK´ (which is faster mostly),
>>>then you get the following:
>>
>>If you set pv=1.Ra7 Kh1 2.Rh7+ Kg1 3.Kd2 Kf1 4.Rf7+ Kg1 5.a4 Kh1 6.Rh7+ Kg1 7.a5
>>Kf1 8.Rf7+ Kg1 9.a6 Kh1 10.Rh7+ Kg1 11.a7 Kf1 12.Rf7+ Kg1 13.a8Q Kh2 14.Qh8+ Kg1
>>15.Qa1+ Kh2 16.Rh7#, you can save the engine even more work.
>>
>>Tony
>
>WOW, that´s really an absolut intelligent answer! :-(
>
>If _you_ already _know_ the solution for this #16, you could not only save
>the engine a lot of work, but even yourself ...

You don't seem to grasp the concept of sarcasm. You must be either Uri or
German.

Tony

>
>Franz.



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