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Originally Posted by *******
Black to move, win in the fewest possible moves:
It's mate in 13. With the help of Rybka 2.2, I worked out the folllowing mess:
1. ... Rd1 2. e4 (2. f4 Qd5 3. Ke7 Qa8 4. Kf6 Qf8 5. Qc6 (5. Ke5 5. .. f6+
6. Ke4 Qa8+ 7. Qb7 Qxb7#) (5. Kg5 Qe7+ 6. Kh6 Qh4#) 5. .. e5 6. f5 (6. fxe5
6. .. Qd8#) (6. Kxe5 Qe7+ 7. Qe6 Qxe6#) 6. .. Rd6+ 7. Kxe5 (7. Qxd6 Qxd6+
8. Kg5 e4 9. Kh4 (9. fxg6 f6+ 10. Kf5 (10. Kh4 Qh2#) 10. .. Qe5#) 9. ..
Qh2+ 10. Kg5 h6+ 11. Kf6 Qd6#) 7. .. Qe7+ 8. Kf4 Rxc6 9. g5 (9. fxg6 9. ..
Rf6+ 10. Kg3 Qxe3+ 11. Kg2 Rf2+ 12. Kg1 Qe1#) (9. Kf3 Rc3) 9. .. Rc3 10.
fxg6 Qxe3+ 11. Kf5 hxg6+ 12. Kf6 Qe6#) 2. .. e5 3. Qc7 (3. Qb8 Qf6 4. Qc8
Qd6 5. g5 Qf8#) 3. .. Qf6 4. Qd7 (4. Qb6 Rd6 5. Qxd6 Qxd6 6. g5 Kg7 7. f4
exf4 8. e5 Qc7 9. e6 f6 10. gxf6+ Kxf6 11. Kf8 Qc8#) 4. .. Rb1 5. Qd5 (5.
Qc7 Qe6+ 6. Kd8 Rd1+ 7. Qd6 Rxd6+ 8. Kc7 Rd7+ 9. Kb8 Qe8#)
5. .. Rb8+ 6.
Kd7 Qd8+ 7. Kc6 Rc8+ 8. Kb7 Rc7+ 9. Kxa6 Qb8 10. Qa8 Qxa8+ 11. Kb5 Qb7+ 12.
Ka4 Rc1 13. f4 Ra1# 0-1
Nothing particularly aesthetic or instructional about it, so I don't understand your interest in this. Either you misanalysed your way to something more interesting than the above or I'm the one who misanalysed my way to something less interesting.