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Subject: Re: Test Position:Interesting Puzzle

Author: F. Huber

Date: 14:44:28 09/07/05

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On September 07, 2005 at 16:47:47, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:

>On September 07, 2005 at 05:14:49, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>[D] 8/p5p1/1pP3p1/p5p1/k3p3/4p3/K7/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>White to play and win
>>
>>Post the winning moves
>>
>>Spike is getting trapped,the engine couldn't find the solution immediately.the
>>evaluation got from the engine shows +0.00
>>
>>The position would look losing in a real life tournament.You have to look hard
>>and find the winning line.I wonder if this kind of puzzle would be even
>>difficult for a Grandmasters?
>
>[Event "Edited position"]
>[Site "linux"]
>[Date "2005.09.07"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "-"]
>[Black "-"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[FEN "8/p5p1/1pP3p1/p5p1/k3p3/4p3/K7/8 w - - 0 1"]
>[SetUp "1"]
>
>1. c7 e2 2. c8=Q e1=Q 3. Qc4+ Qb4 4. Qc6+ Qb5 5. Qxe4+ Qb4 6. Qd3 g4 7.
>Qd7+ Qb5 8. Qxg4+ Qb4 9. Qd7+ Qb5 10. Qd4+ Qb4 11. Qd3 g5 12. Qd7+ Qb5 13.
>Qd4+ Qb4 14. Qd3 g6 15. Qd7+ Qb5 16. Qd4+ Qb4 17. Qd3 a6 18. Qd7+ Qb5 19.
>Qd4+ Qb4 20. Qd3 g4 21. Qd7+ Qb5 22. Qxg4+ Qb4 23. Qd7+ Qb5 24. Qd4+ Qb4
>25. Qd3 g5 26. Qd7+ Qb5 27. Qd4+ Qb4 28. Qd3 g4 29. Qd7+ Qb5 30. Qxg4+ Qb4
>31. Qd7+ Qb5 32. Qd4+ Qb4 33. Qd3 b5 34. Qc2+ Qb3+ 35. Qxb3#
>{White mates} 1-0

Your solution is not ok - after move 32... it´s only a #10:
(checked with ChestUCI Ver.4.2)

This is the correct continuation:
33.Qd3 Qb2+ 34.Kxb2 Kb4 35.Qc3+ Kb5 36.Qc7 Kb4 37.Qc6 a4 38.Kc2 a3
39.Qc3+ Ka4 40.Qc4+ Ka5 41.Kb3 b5 42.Qc7#  {Mate} 1-0

Regards,
Franz.



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