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Subject: Puzzle for Chest under steroid ! (was Re: Mate in ...?)

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 11:30:40 02/16/00

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On February 14, 2000 at 11:29:23, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>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

And now try this one please :

This study was posted some years ago (around 1997) in the news :

8/Bk3p1p/1P3p2/KP2n2p/1P1p4/1Pp2p2/B1P5/7B w - -
Mate in 270 moves

Good luck ! ;)



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