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Subject: Re: Mate in ...?

Author: leonid

Date: 14:34:07 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

This last one probably very tough since I could not find any mate from white or
black side 13 moves (26 plies) deep.

AMD 400Mhz. LLchess.

White 13 moves - No mate found. Time - 0.1 sec.
Black 13 moves - No mate found. Time - somewhere below 0.05sec. On screen - 0.

Regards,
Leonid.



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