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Subject: Re: An amazing checkmate. Can your program find it?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:10:51 12/22/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 15:57:14, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On December 22, 1999 at 14:10:56, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Have a look at this tremendous checkmate Chest found from the famous 1924 New
>>York Chess Club championship:
>>2r3k1/5ppp/7r/Q7/3P1p2/1N3Pnq/PP3K1P/R5R1 b - - acd 10; acn 535351375; acs
>>15279; bm Ne4+; ce 32750; dm 9; id "C.A.P. 812153"; pv Ne4+ fxe4 Qe3+ Kf1 Rxh2
>>Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe5+ f6 Qe7+ Kg6 Qxf6+ Kxf6 e5+ Kg6 e6 Qf2#;
>>
>>I will be amazed if any general purpose program (or even most GM's) can find it.
>
>Dan, prepare to be amazed... I copied and pasted the position into the two
>programs that accept epd's correctly right off -- Zarkov 4.30 and Genius 6.5.
>Zarkov came up with the right continuation immediately and saw that it was
>winning, but did not announce the mate in about two or three minutes.  However,
>Genius 6.5 was just incredible -- it announced _mate in 10 in 16 seconds_, with
>me logged on, and with a couple of other apps running on my PII-400...  So, be
>amazed :)))

Both are pretty amazing results.  But it is a mate in 9.  Did any program find
the closer mate?



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