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Subject: Re: Beautiful Mate !!!! Go AHEAD , solve it with Fritz5 .....

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:37:07 04/28/99

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Yes, Chessmaster 6000 announces mate in 11 in less than 1 second with Qh6+ on my
P2-300.

jm


On April 28, 1999 at 12:38:26, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:

>Yes, It is beautiful! Fritz5.32 and Junior5 do not solve this. (or solve it
>quickly enough for our taste anyway).  I put it on the King engine in
>TASCBASE2.0 (very simular engine to CM5500-CM6000).  It finds the solution in
>about 2 seconds.  Obviously, the De Konig engine has some unique search
>extensions for mate positons in its root search that allow it to find beautiful
>mates like this.  Remember how quicky it solved the Shirov Mate problem?
>
>r1b2r2/3pNpkp/3pn1p1/2pN3P/2PnP3/q3QP2/4BKP1/1R5R w - - 0 1
>
>
>Solution: 1.Qh6+ Kh6 2.hxg6+ Kg5 3.Rh5+ Kxh5 4.f4+ Qf3 5.Bxf3 (or, 5...Nxf3
>6.Nf6+ Kh6 7.Rh1+ Nh2 8.Rxh2+ Kg7 9.Ne8+ Rxe8 10.Rxh7+ Kf6 11.Rxf7#)  Kh6 6.Rh1+
>Kg7 7.Rxh7#
>
>Pretty cool I admit.
>
>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
>
>
>
>
>On April 28, 1999 at 11:23:46, jose hernandez wrote:
>
>>
>>White = Rb1, Rh1 , Be2, Kf2 , Qe3, Nd5, Ne7.
>>pawns = c4, e4 , f3, g2 , h5.
>>
>>
>>Black = Ra8, Bc8, Qa3, Rf8, Kg7, Nd4, Ne6
>>pawns = d7, d6, c5, f7, g6, h7.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Please put this Beautiful Mate problem to Fritz.
>>
>>Fritz cant do it.
>>
>>What is the move ???



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