A new if not unique KQBNPP vs kqrrp chess construct composed autonomously by the program, Chesthetica, using the approach known as the DSNS from the sub-field of AI, computational creativity. The program can compose problems that may otherwise take decades, centuries or even longer for human composers to think of, or to arise in a real game. Chesthetica is able to generate mates in 3, mates in 4, mates in 5, study-like constructs and also compose problems using specific combinations of pieces fed into it (e.g. instructing it to compose something original using only a queen vs. rook, knight and bishop). Read more about it on ChessBase. The largest (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 11 pieces could have been taken from such a database. Any analysis shown for this study could be flawed as chess engines may change their recommendations given more time. The first or key move, at least, is probably right.
Chesthetica v10.69 : Selangor, Malaysia
White to Play and Win : 2018.7.14 12:05:23 AM
The chess problems are published chronologically based on the composition date and time. However, later compositions may have an earlier version of Chesthetica listed because more than one computer (not all running the same version of the program) is used. White actually has less material than Black. The white army is down by about 3 (Shannon) pawn units in value. Leave a comment below if you like. Feel free to copy the position into a chess engine and discover even more variations of the solution.
Main Line of the Solution (Skip to 0:35)
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