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Torsten Linß
10 harmonie 29/1990








H#4 (4+3)
C+

h#n orthodox


1.Dd5 Ke2 2.Kf4 Sd8 3.Lf5 Se6 4.Ke4 f3#
Pocet reseni:00001 (Number of solutions)
Pocet obrazcu:00008 (Number of patterns - in VKSACH)

(solving time min:sec / 300 MHz)
VKSACH 0:00 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 0:01
ALYBADIX 0:27
WINCHLOE 0:00

Sandor Boros
3.H.M. Magyar Sakkvilag 1943








H#4 (2+15)
C+


1.Sb4 Kd4 2.Lb1 K:e3 3.Sd3 Ke2 4.Sb2 Sb3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00424

VKSACH 0:52 (RS1 0:22)
POPEYE 0:12, v3.65 0:08
ALYBADIX 0:07
WINCHLOE 0:01

Kornel Ebersz
Western Daily Mercury 1921








H#5 (3+4)
C+


1.f4 Lb8 2.f3 Lh2 3.f2 Lg1 4.f:g1T Sd6 5.Tg6 Sf7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00016

VKSACH 0:18 (RS1 0:02)
POPEYE 0:03, v3.65 0:01
ALYBADIX 0:38
WINCHLOE 0:00

Christian Poisson
9488 Schwalbe 163/1997








H#6 (2+5)
C+


1.c1D Sd5 2.Dh6 Kb5 3.Dh8 Kc6 4.e1D Kd7 5.Db1 Ke8 6.Dbh7 Se7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00018

VKSACH 0:01 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 0:02
ALYBADIX 0:21
WINCHLOE 0:00

Torsten Linß
10896 Schach 1/1986








H#6 (2+8)
C+


1.Sc7 Ke3 2.Td5 K:e4 3.Le5 Kf3 4.Td6 Ke3 5.Kd5 Kd3 6.Se6 e4#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00119

VKSACH 1:09 (RS1 1:09)
POPEYE 0:01
ALYBADIX 0:47
WINCHLOE 0:01

Torsten Linß
harmonie 23/1988








H#6 (2+9)
C+


1.Le4 Kh6 2.Dd6 K:g5 3.Td5 Kh4 4.Kd4 Kg4 5.Dc5 K:f4 6.Ld3 f:e3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00241 (without promotion 10)

VKSACH 38:54 (RS1 23:13, R1S{F21} = without promotion of this pawn 0:00)
POPEYE 0:02
ALYBADIX 1:20 (White promoting: No - 0:53)
WINCHLOE 0:02

Ulrich Ring
1.Pr. feenschach 1991








H#7 (2+7)
C+


1.Lh7 Ke3 2.Kg6 K:d3 3.Lbg8 Ke4 4.Kf7 Kd5 5.Lf5 Kc6 6.Ke6 d4 7.Lf7 d5#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:01208 (without promotion only 2)

VKSACH 45:24 (RS1 35:24, R1S{D21} 0:00)
POPEYE 0:22
ALYBADIX 0:49 (White promoting: No - 0:17)
WINCHLOE 0:00

Norbert Geissler
7356 Schwalbe VI/1991








H#7 (2+8)
C+


1.Lh1 Lg2 2.Dh7 K:f2 3.Td8 Ke3 4.Kd7 La8 5.Lb7 Kd4 6.Lc8 Kd5 7.De7 Lc6#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00217

VKSACH 0:49 (RS1 0:15)
POPEYE 0:08
ALYBADIX 17:25
WINCHLOE 0:08

Norbert Geissler
Problemkiste 1993








H#7 (2+5)
C+


1.b1T c3 2.Tb4 c:b4 3.a1T b5 4.Th1 b6 5.Kg1 b7 6.f2 b8D 7.f1T Dg3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:03023

VKSACH 2:26 (RS1 2:18)
POPEYE 0:43
ALYBADIX 0:30
WINCHLOE 0:22

Z.Maslar
2.Pr. Die Schwalbe 1981








H#8 (2+3)
C+


1.Kf3 Kd3 2.Lb3 Kc3 3.Ke4 Kd2 4.Kd4 Ke2 5.Kc3 Sb4 6.Kb2 Kd2 7.Ka1 Kc1 8.La2 Sc2#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00003

See Algorithm descriptions
or Mezi šachovnicí a počítačem (1996), page 258

VKSACH 0:14 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE v3.61 >10 hours, v3.65 0:01 !!!
ALYBADIX 52:59
WINCHLOE 0:21

E.Albert
Sahovski glasnik 1963








H#8 (2+4)
C+


1.Tg1 Lf3 2.T7g3 Lg4 3.Kb4 Kg5 4.Kc3 Kf4 5.Kd2 Lf3 6.Ke1 Ke3 7.Kf1 Kd2 8.T3g2 Le2#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00024

VKSACH 0:52 (RS1 0:04)
POPEYE 0:53, v3.65 0:46
ALYBADIX 70:04
WINCHLOE 0:59

Z.Maslar
Problem 1955








H#9 (2+3)
C+


1.Sh6 Ld8 2.Kb8 Le7 3.Kc8 Lf8 4.Kd8 Kc6 5.Ke8 Kd6 6.Kf7 K:e5 7.Kg8 Kf6 8.Kh8 Kg6 9.Sg8 Lg7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00001

VKSACH 0:05 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 0:01
ALYBADIX 61:07
WINCHLOE 0:04

John Niemann
Schachmatt 1948








H#9 (2+3)
C+


1.g5 Kg1 2.g4 Kf1 3.g3 h:g3 4.Kc7 g4 5.Kd6 g5 6.Ke5 g6 7.Kf4 g7 8.Kg3 g8D 9.Kh2 Dg1#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00433

VKSACH 0:16 (RS1 0:03)
POPEYE 0:05
ALYBADIX 0:23
WINCHLOE 0:12

M.Zigman
1.Pr. Sahovski Glasnik 1971-3








H#10 0.1.1... (2+3)
C+


1. - Kg8 2.Dd1 Kf7 3.Kd4 Se6 4.Ke3 Sd4 5.c5 Ke6 6.c4 Kd5 7.c3 Kc4 8.c2 Kb3 9.Kd2 Ka2 10.Kc1 Sb3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00003

VKSACH 0:00 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 8:47, v3.65 0:02 !!!
ALYBADIX 30:37
WINCHLOE 0:00

Hans Peter Rehm
1.Pr. Feenschach 1969








h#4 (10+11)
C+
11 moegliche Stellungen in 1+1 (Zeit = 0.170 s)
147 moegliche Stellungen in 2+2 (Zeit = 1.430 s)
2949 moegliche Stellungen in 3+3 (Zeit = 20.270 s)
1.b4-b3 Tg3-g4 2.b3*a2 Th3-g3 3.h4-h3 Tg4-h4 4.Kh1*h2 Th4*h3 #
54865 moegliche Stellungen in 4+4 (Zeit = 4:35.180 m:s)

Rare example of h#4, in which is "brute force" faster than intelligent mode.
programbrute forceintelligentmating positions
VKSACH 8.70:053:3829202
POPEYE 3.750:034:3554865
ALYBADIX 20020:000:34?
WINCHLOE (DOS mode)0:012:148000

M.Nieroba
feenschach 38/1977








H#4 CIRCE (2+5)
C+

h#n fairy


1.Td7 S:c4(Lc8) 2.Lb7 S:e3(Sb8) 3.Kc8 S:d5(Dd8) 4.Tc7 Sb6#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00007

VKSACH 0:01 (RS1 0:01)
POPEYE 57:34
ALYBADIX 15:58
WINCHLOE 0:00 (intelligent mode !)

M.Bílý
feenschach 89/1988








H#4 2.1.1... (5+4)
C+ Grasshopper Gg5/Ge7


1.Kf5 Gg3 2.Se5 Gd6 3.Sg6 Sf6 4.Ge5 g4#
1.Ke4 Sh6 2.e5 Gd5 3.Kf4 Sf5 4.Ge4 g3#
Pocet reseni:00002
Pocet obrazcu:00017

VKSACH 0:01 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 3:58
ALYBADIX 1:25
WINCHLOE 5:11 (DOS), 5:47 (Windows)

P.Kniest
Pr. Die Schwalbe 1938








H#4 Grasshopper Gh1/Gb5 (3+5)
C+


1.Kb7 b4 2.Gb8 b5 3.Ka8 b6 4.Lc6 b7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00010

VKSACH 0:00 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 4:13
ALYBADIX 1:22
WINCHLOE 4:05 (DOS), 6:25 (Windows)

Erich Bartel
DuF 1969








H#6 Nachtreiter Nb6 (2+6)
C+


1.d5 Kh4 2.d4 g4 3.d3 g5 4.d2 g6 5.d1N g7 6.Nb5 g8T#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00016

VKSACH 0:00 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 26:04
ALYBADIX 6:48
WINCHLOE atfer 3 hours only 4/12 moves (Windows)

Unto Heinonen
F144 Probleemblad 6/1999








H#6 nonstop Equihopper Eb7/Ea7,g7 (2+6)
C+


1.Le8 Ef7 2.Dc8 Kg6 3.Ec7 Kf5 4.Td8 Ke5 5.Kd7 Ed3 6.Ee7 Kd5#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00078

VKSACH 2:02 (RS1 0:39)
POPEYE >10 hours
ALYBADIX >10 hours
WINCHLOE >10 hours

J.Kricheli
feenschach 32/1976








SH#13 (2+4)
C+

sh#n orthodox


1.g1T 2.Tg2 3.Ta2 4.g2 5.g1D 6.Dg6 7.Db1 8.d5 9.d4 10.d3 11.d2 12.d1S 13.Sb2 Sb3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00020

VKSACH 0:01 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 0:13
ALYBADIX2001 0:00 (ALYBADIX2000 0:12)
WINCHLOE 0:17

G.P.Sphicas
6548 IMR 53/1994








SH#14 (4+4)
C+


1.e2 2.e1L 3.L:b4 4.Le7 5.b4 6.b3 7.b2 8.b1L 9.La2 10.d2 11.d1L 12.Lh5 13.Le8 14.Laf7 f:e7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00041

VKSACH 0:36 (RS1 0:05)
POPEYE 24:54
ALYBADIX2001 0:00 (ALYBADIX2000 2:08)
WINCHLOE >10 hours

C.J.Morse
2.Pr. BCM 1969








SH#15 (4+6)
C+


1.c1D 2.D:c3 3.Dd4 4.c3 5.c2 6.c1D 7.D:c6 8.Dcd5 9.c5 10.c4 11.c3 12.c2 13.c1D 14.Dc8 15.Df5 f3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00106

VKSACH 1:09 (RS1 0:09)
POPEYE 21:56
ALYBADIX2001 0:01 (ALYBADIX2000 1:06)
WINCHLOE 0:03

C.Jonsson
42 Ideal-mate review 53/1994








SH#16 (3+5)
C+


1.f1L 2.Le2 3.Ld1 4.e2 5.e1D 6.D:e6 7.Da2 8.e5 9.e4 10.e3 11.e2 12.e1T 13.Te4 14.Ta4 15.Sb4 16.Lb3 Sb5#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00124

VKSACH 2:25 (RS1 0:04)
POPEYE 15:31
ALYBADIX2001 0:07 (ALYBADIX2000 20:10)
WINCHLOE 8 hours 44 minutes

J.Mintz
67 Ideal-mate review 53/1994








SH#19 (2+5)
C+


1.Kc6 2.a5 3.a4 4.a3 5.a2 6.a1S 7.Sb3 8.Sc5 9.Kd5 10.Ke4 11.Kf3 12.Se4 13.c5 14.c4 15.c3 16.c2 17.c1T 18.Tc3 19.Te3 Tf5#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00003

VKSACH 0:00 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 6:11, v3.65 3:40
ALYBADIX2001 5:20 (ALYBADIX2000 92:20)
WINCHLOE 0:00

V.Schneider
Tovaris 1968








SH#20 (9+5)
C+


1.g1S 2.S:h3 3.Sf4 4.h3 5.h2 6.h1S 7.Sg3 8.Sg:h5 9.Sf6 10.h5 11.h4 12.h3 13.h2 14.h1S 15.S:f2 16.Se4 17.f2 18.f1S 19.Se3 20.Sed5 d4#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00538

VKSACH 1:32 (RS1 0:42)
POPEYE 43:07
ALYBADIX2001 0:00 (ALYBADIX2000 42:21)
WINCHLOE 1:17

G.P.Sphicas
44 Ideal-mate review 53/1994








SH#22 (2+6)
C+


1.Kc2 2.Kd3 3.Ke4 4.Kf5 5.Kg6 6.f5 7.Lg7 8.e5 9.e4 10.e3 11.e2 12.e1T 13.Te6 14.Tf6 15.e5 16.e4 17.e3 18.e2 19.e1T 20.Te8 21.Th8 22.Th7 Se5#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00006

VKSACH 0:16 (RS1 0:01)
POPEYE 11:01
ALYBADIX2001 0:03 (ALYBADIX2000 57:26)
WINCHLOE 93:47

A.Atanasievic
Tovaris 1970








SH#22 (3+5)
C+


1.f1S 2.Sh2 3.S:g4 4.Se5 5.g4 6.g3 7.g2 8.g1L 9.Le3 10.Lc1 11.b1D 12.Db4 13.Df8 14.b4 15.b3 16.b2 17.b1T 18.Tb7 19.Lg5 20.Ld8 21.Te7 22.Sd7 Sd6#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:01544

VKSACH 31:54 (RS1 0:48)
POPEYE 76:38
ALYBADIX2001 0:20 (ALYBADIX2000 87:22)
WINCHLOE >3 hours

J.Kubečka
feenschach 26/1974








SH#23 (7+6)
C+


1.f5 2.f4 3.f3 4.f:g2 5.g1S 6.Sh3 7.S:g5 8.Se6 9.g5 10.g4 11.g3 12.g2 13.g1L 14.L:b6 15.Lc5 16.b5 17.b4 18.b3 19.b2 20.b1L 21.Lc2 22.La4 23.Lc6 e4#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00212

VKSACH 1:26 (RS1 0:54)
POPEYE 20:04
ALYBADIX2001 0:00 (ALYBADIX2000 30:36)
WINCHLOE 48:50

C.Jonsson
66 Ideal-mate review 53/1994








SH#25 (2+6)
C+


1.d5 2.d4 3.d3 4.d2 5.d1L 6.Lc2 7.Lg6 8.Kc2 9.Kd3 10.Ke4 11.Kf5 12.Te4 13.a4 14.a3 15.a2 16.a1T 17.Ta5 18.Tae5 19.a5 20.a4 21.a3 22.a2 23.a1T 24.Ta6 25.Tf6 Sg7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00002

See Algorithm descriptions
or Mezi šachovnicí a počítačem (1996), page 259

VKSACH 0:11 (RS1 0:01)
POPEYE >10 hours (also v3.65)
ALYBADIX2001 0:43 (ALYBADIX2000 >10 hours)
WINCHLOE >10 hours

Romeo Bédoni
8037 feenschach 134/1999








SH#8 Lion LIg4 (2+6)
C+

sh#n fairy


1.a1LI 2.LIf6 3.b1LI 4.LIf5 5.c1LI 6.LIh6 7.d1LI 8.LIh5 LIg1#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:01459

VKSACH 27:56 (RS1 2:00)
POPEYE >10 hours
ALYBADIX >10 hours
WINCHLOE >10 hours

T.Kardos
fenschach 1971








SH#14 Nachtreiter Na2 (4+4)
C+


1.e5 2.e4 3.e3 4.e2 5.e:f1N 6.N:h5 7.Nb2 8.h5 9.h4 10.h3 11.h2 12.h1N 13.Ne7 14.Nb1 Sc2#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00010

VKSACH 0:00 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 8:37
ALYBADIX 3:09
WINCHLOE >3 hours

R.Bédoni
feenschach 1973








SH#20 Nachtreiter Nh3 (4+5)
C+


1.a5 2.a4 3.a3 4.a2 5.a1N 6.N:c5 7.Ng7 8.c5 9.c4 10.c3 11.c2 12.c1N 13.N:e5 14.Ng6 15.e5 16.e4 17.e3 18.e2 19.e1N 20.Nh7 Nf7#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00095

VKSACH 5:07 (RS1 0:09)
POPEYE >10 hours
ALYBADIX 39:25
WINCHLOE >10 hours

T.Kardos
Problem 1973








SH#21 Nachtreiter Nc2 (4+5)
C+


1.d5 2.d4 3.d3 4.d2 5.d1N 6.N:f5 7.Nd1 8.f5 9.f4 10.f3 11.f2 12.f1N 13.N:h5 14.Nb2 15.h5 16.h4 17.h3 18.h2 19.h1N 20.Ne7 21.Nb1 Sb3#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00386

VKSACH 6:01 (RS1 1:12)
POPEYE >10 hours
ALYBADIX >10 hours
WINCHLOE >10 hours

V.Kotěšovec
2078 Problemkiste 57/1988








SH#21 Grasshopper Ge1 (2+3)
C+ Nachtreiterhüpfer NHf3,h5


1.Kb2 2.Kc3 3.Kd3 4.NHb2 5.NHf4 6.Ke4 7.Kf5 8.Kg5 9.NHh7 10.Kf6 11.NHd5 12.Ke6 13.NHd8 14.Kd6 15.Kc5 16.Kb4 17.NHa2 18.Kc3 19.NHb1 20.Kb2 21.Ka1 Kc2#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00004

VKSACH 0:11 (RS1 0:00)
POPEYE 0:33
ALYBADIX 0:14
WINCHLOE 4:03

V.Kotěšovec
4.Pr. Phenix 10/1990








SH#27 Nachtreiterhüpfer NHc8,f8 (2+3)
C+


1.NHd4 2.Kf8 3.Ke8 4.Kd8 5.Kc7 6.Kc6 7.NHb8 8.Kc5 9.Kd4 10.NHe2 11.Ke4 12.NHf2 13.Kd3 14.NHb4 15.Ke3 16.Kf2 17.NHh1 18.NHd3 19.Ke3 20.Kd4 21.Kc5 22.NHb7 23.Kc6 24.NHb8 25.Kb6 26.Ka7 27.Ka8 Ta1#
Pocet reseni:00001
Pocet obrazcu:00028

VKSACH 8:59 (RS1 0:07)
POPEYE 0:36
ALYBADIX 0:18
WINCHLOE 5:23