In the following position I played 21...Ree4, with unstoppable checkmate on the next move:
Yet the Chess.com Stockfish 15 engine at depth 20 missed it, despite finding another mate in two plus other checkmates. Check out the screenshot below:
And just to prove 21...Ree4 leads to checkmate on the next move the following screenshot now shows the proper evaluation of mate next move afterwards:
So clearly 21...Ree4 is not a check and the three checkmates suggested by the engine in the first screenshot begin with check so I would have to assume this is why the engine originally missed 21...Ree4. However I am genuinely surprised that the engine would have missed 21...Ree4 when it found another mate in two and other checkmates. I literally did not think engines would be capable of missing such a checkmate under these circumstances.
I have seen the engine miss checkmates before in composed problems but I am not sure if I have ever seen one this short missed in a composition, let alone a real game position.
In the following position I played 21...Ree4, with unstoppable checkmate on the next move:
Yet the Chess.com Stockfish 15 engine at depth 20 missed it, despite finding another mate in two plus other checkmates. Check out the screenshot below:
And just to prove 21...Ree4 leads to checkmate on the next move the following screenshot now shows the proper evaluation of mate next move afterwards:
So clearly 21...Ree4 is not a check and the three checkmates suggested by the engine in the first screenshot begin with check so I would have to assume this is why the engine originally missed 21...Ree4. However I am genuinely surprised that the engine would have missed 21...Ree4 when it found another mate in two and other checkmates. I literally did not think engines would be capable of missing such a checkmate under these circumstances.