The brilliant chess move (60)

[Glarean]

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There's a new "Brilliant" in 'Glarean Magazin':

The Brilliant Chess Move #60 (Mate):
http://glareanverlag.wordpress.com/2010 ... n-magazin/

Regards: Walter

Mate in 14

[zullil]

[d]8/1BB5/3K4/8/1N4pp/6pq/6pr/7k w - - 0 1

[zullil]

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There's a new "Brilliant" in 'Glarean Magazin':

The Brilliant Chess Move #60 (Mate):
http://glareanverlag.wordpress.com/2010 ... n-magazin/

Regards: Walter

Mate in 14

The fen for the position is incorrect on http://glareanverlag.wordpress.com/2010 ... n-magazin/

[Glarean]

The fen for the position is incorrect on http://glareanverlag.wordpress.com/2010 ... n-magazin/

You're right - thanks!

Walter

[zullil]

[d]8/1BB5/3K4/8/1N4pp/6pq/6pr/7k w - - 0 1

Stockfish-1.6.3 (8 threads) gets the right "idea" in about 45 minutes:

Code: Select all

Searching: 8/1BB5/3K4/8/1N4pp/6pq/6pr/7k w - -
infinite: 1 ponder: 0 time: 0 increment: 0 moves to go: 0
 2    -13.41   00:01       40 Ke5 Kg1 
 2     +0.00   00:01       44 Bb6 
 3     +0.00   00:01      153 Bb6 
 4     +0.00   00:01      203 Bb6 
 5     +0.00   00:01      253 Bb6 
 6     +0.00   00:01      303 Bb6 
 7     +0.00   00:01      353 Bb6 
 8     +0.00   00:01      426 Bb6 
 9     +0.00   00:01      601 Bb6 
10     +0.00   00:01      913 Bb6 
11     +0.00   00:01     1185 Bb6 
12     +0.00   00:01     1568 Bb6 
13     +0.00   00:01     2014 Bb6 
14     +0.00   00:01     3250 Bb6 
15     +0.00   00:01     9160 Bb6 
16     +0.00   00:01    21373 Bb6 
17     +0.00   00:01    41458 Bb6 
18     +0.00   00:01    66886 Bb6 
19     +0.00   00:01   113376 Bb6 
20     +0.00   00:01   190357 Bb6 
21     +0.00   00:01   342295 Bb6 
22     +0.00   00:01   536345 Bb6 
23     +0.00   00:01   853192 Bb6 
24     +0.00   00:01    1399k Bb6 
25     +0.00   00:01    2256k Bb6 
26     +0.00   00:02    3599k Bb6 
27     +0.00   00:02    5692k Bb6 
28     +0.00   00:03    8910k Bb6 
29     +0.00   00:04   13802k Bb6 
30     +0.00   00:05   21156k Bb6 
31     +0.00   00:07   32823k Bb6 
32     +0.00   00:09   48607k Bb6 
33     +0.00   00:14   74788k Bb6 
34     +0.00   00:20  114698k Bb6 
35     +0.00   00:29  177290k Bb6 
36     +0.00   00:42  266530k Bb6 
37     +0.00   01:01  407460k Bb6 
38     +0.00   01:29  619077k Bb6 
39     +0.00   02:18  999720k Bb6 
40     +0.00   03:31    1570M Bb6 
41     +0.00   05:36    2609M Bb6 
42     +0.00   09:16    4441M Bb6 
42  >    #16   45:52   24215M Nc2 Kg1 Bb6+ Kh1 Kc5 Kg1 Kd5+ Kh1 Kd4 Kg1 Kc3+ 
                              Kh1 Nd4 Kg1 Kd2 Kf1 Ba6+ Kg1 Ke2 Rh1 Nf3# 
Nodes: 276916426203
Nodes/second: 7299934
Best move: Nc2
Ponder move: Kg1

[orlando]

My King setting is even faster (4 cores, I7,920):

8/1BB5/3K4/8/1N4pp/6pq/6pr/7k w - -

Engine: TheKing 3.50_64 AmGJdK VI (1024 MB)
von Johan de Koning

13.05 0:00 0.00 1.Lb6 (2.674.568) 2701

14.09 0:01 0.00 1.Lb6 (6.591.154) 3345

15.12 0:04 0.00 1.Lb6 (20.839.333) 4747

16.10 0:09 0.00 1.Lb6 (50.362.860) 5380

17.17 0:21 0.00 1.Lb6 (124.312.524) 5752

18.23 0:48 0.00 1.Lb6 (289.743.358) 5970

19.20 1:55 0.00 1.Lb6 (695.326.716) 6033

19.02 2:51 +99.73 1.Sc2 Kg1 2.Lb6+ Kh1 3.Kc5 Kg1
4.Kd5+ Kh1 5.Kd4 Kg1 6.Ke4+ Kh1
7.Ke3 Kg1 8.Ke2+ Kh1 9.Sd4 Kg1
10.Se6+ Kh1 11.Sc5 Kg1 12.Se4+ Kh1
13.Kd3 g1D 14.Sxg3+ (1.044.506.771) 6096

[Jouni]

ChestUCI (32b single):

14/14 01:39 80.214.151 927.985 +M14 Nb4c2
AutoTurbo-Search for Special-Mate [C0/R0/K0/P1/X4] in 14 ... (Hash=1024MB)
14/14 01:40 85.444.883 928.032 +M14 Nb4c2
AutoTurbo-Search for Special-Mate [C0/R0/K3/P1/X4] in 14 ... (Hash=1024MB)
14/14 01:40 59.271 955.983 +M14 Nb4c2
Mate in 14 found ! (1 Solution in 00:00)
14/14 01:40 25.270 815.161 +M14 Nb4c2 Kh1g1 Bc7b6+ Kg1h1 Kd6c5 Kh1g1 Kc5d5+ Kg1h1 Kd5d4 Kh1g1 Kd4e4+ Kg1h1 Ke4e3 Kh1g1 Ke3e2+ Kg1h1 Nc2d4 Kh1g1 Nd4b3+ Kg1h1 Nb3c5 Kh1g1 Nc5e4+ Kg1h1 Ke2d2 g2g1Q+ Ne4f2+

Jouni