Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 00:43:59 04/02/00
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On April 01, 2000 at 08:17:25, Olaf Jenkner wrote: >>>I put this position into Fritz6a running on an AMD750 with 384mb of ram and with >>>all 4 piece endgames installed to the harddrive and it gave me Mate in 100 from >>>the position in your diagram >>>It did this in 1 minute 27 seconds!! >>>take care >>>Rory >> >>This is impossible. If black loses the first pawn after 20 moves, he will lose >>the second one very quickly also (_certainly_ in under 10 moves), and from that >>point a KNP vs K ending can be won in less than 20 moves. This is almost >>certainly less than mate in 50. >> >>James >Maybe it's mate in 25. It is definitely not a mate in 18, I calculated >it with my own program not using tablebases in 3 hours. Perhaps I can >go much deeper but in 2 hours I'm going to my holidays to the Netherlands >for one week. I was told that there grow the tulips. >Olaf You could let it run for that week. :) But seriously, the pawn is supposed to be taken on move 20, and the second pawn shortly after (within 8 moves). Mate certainly comes within 20 moves of that, so the upper limit is probably about 45 - definitely more than 30, but probably less than 50. Jeremiah
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