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Subject: Re: .White Mates in 5 Moves .. Anyone find a forced Mate?

Author: F. Huber

Date: 10:37:28 11/28/05

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On November 28, 2005 at 13:22:38, chandler yergin wrote:

>[D]rn1qr1k1/pbp2pb1/1p4B1/3p4/3P4/2N1PN2/PPQ2PP1/R3K2R b - - 0 1

There´s not even a _forced_ mate in 6!
The only black move leading to a mate in 4 is Rf8 - but I´d rather call this
a ´helpmate´ since black has to ´help´ white to mate him with this bad move. ;-)

Regards,
Franz.

ChestUCI Ver.4.2:
CPU: Celeron 400MHz
FEN: rn1qr1k1/pbp2pb1/1p4B1/3p4/3P4/2N1PN2/PPQ2PP1/R3K2R b - -
Position-Analysis:  C0/R0/K2/P10/X34
Search for Mate in -6 ...  (Hash=36MB)
Search completed ...  (Time=268.53s)
No Mate in -6 found !  (04:28)
Re8-f8 --> 1.Bh7+ Kh8 2.Bg8+ Qh4 3.Rxh4+ Bh6 4.Qh7#
1 Solution  (Mate in -4)
Kg8-f8 --> no Mate
Qd8-h4 --> no Mate
Qd8-g5 --> no Mate
Qd8-f6 --> no Mate
Qd8-e7 --> no Mate
Qd8-d6 --> no Mate
Qd8-d7 --> no Mate
Qd8-c8 --> no Mate
Re8-e4 --> no Mate
Re8-e5 --> no Mate
Re8-e6 --> no Mate
Re8-e7 --> no Mate
Bb7-c6 --> no Mate
Bb7-a6 --> no Mate
Bb7-c8 --> no Mate
Bg7-f8 --> no Mate
Bg7-h6 --> no Mate
Bg7xd4 --> no Mate
Bg7-e5 --> no Mate
Bg7-f6 --> no Mate
Bg7-h8 --> no Mate
Nb8-d7 --> no Mate
Nb8-c6 --> no Mate
Nb8-a6 --> no Mate
Pa7-a5 --> no Mate
Pa7-a6 --> no Mate
Pb6-b5 --> no Mate
Pc7-c5 --> no Mate
Pc7-c6 --> no Mate
Pf7xg6 --> no Mate
Pf7-f5 --> no Mate
Pf7-f6 --> no Mate
Re8xe3 --> no Mate
33 Defences  (No Mate in -6)





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