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Subject: Re: Mate in ...?

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 02:08:22 02/14/00

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On February 13, 2000 at 18:02:20, James T. Walker wrote:

>On February 12, 2000 at 10:18:44, leonid wrote:
>

>
>This is from George Koltanowski's book "TV Chess".  It is a mate in 10 with 4
>underpromotions to a Knight.  It is one of my favorites.  I was surprised to
>find in the late 80's that the Fidelity Champion Sensory Challenger would solve
>this problem in about 42 seconds.  Todays programs will solve this in less than
>1 second.
>
>[D]7K/P1p1p1p1/2P1P1Pk/6pP/3p2P1/1P6/3P4/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Jim Walker

This is a nice variation on the same position the I made from another
variation on this position :)
Note the nice queen moves at the end, and that promoting to a knight the
third time will not work.

[D]8/1p1p1p1p/3P1P2/pp5P/kp6/1p4P1/1P4P1/2K5 w - - 0 1

Regards
Andreas Stabel



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