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Subject: Re: Mate in ...?

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 08:29:23 02/14/00

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On February 14, 2000 at 05:08:22, Andreas Stabel wrote:

>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

Ah, I like it!  It is a mate in 16.  Chest on P/133 with 10 MB hash table
needs 1.15 seconds to find the main variation:

 g4 h6 g5 hxg5 h6 b6   h7 g4   h8=N g3 Ng6  fxg6 f7    g5 f8=N
 g4 Ne6 dxe6 d7 e5 d8=Q e4 Qb8 e3 Qxg3 e2 Kd2 =*= Qxe1 g3 Qa1#

Complete solution tree in 1.67 seconds.  Wow.

Heiner



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