What we have here is a 'KRRBN vs kppp' mate in 5 chess construct composed autonomously by a computer using the DSNS computational creativity approach which doesn't use any kind of traditional AI. Chesthetica has the creative ability to compose positions that may otherwise take centuries to arise in an actual game, if ever. You can learn more about the DSNS here. The largest (i.e. Lomonosov) tablebase today is for 7 pieces which contains over 500 trillion positions. With each additional piece, the number of possible positions increases exponentially. It is therefore impossible that this problem with 9 pieces could have been taken from such a database.
White to Play and Mate in 5
Chesthetica v10.63 : Selangor, Malaysia
2018.3.17 3:54:37 PM
Chesthetica, especially if running on multiple computers or operating system user accounts, is capable of generating far too many compositions than can be published in a timely fashion here. The newer ones will therefore only be published some time later. This is why the composition date above does not match today's date. Now, let's see what else there is to say. Give me a moment. Try to solve this puzzle. Do try some of the others in the series as well before you go. Take some time to study the analysis and you might appreciate the puzzle a little more.
Solution (Skip to 0:35)
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