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Subject: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 00:19:14 02/02/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 01:28:59, Jouni Uski wrote:

>[D]8/6kn/3B3p/5K1B/8/8/8/8 b - -
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>resign 1-0! Why? Is this really white's win?
>
>JouniDate: 1/2/2001

Jouni,

Gambit Tiger without tablebases solves this as a mate in 46 in 26 minutes on a
PII 333 with 48 Megs Hash.

1... Ng5 2. Bc5 Nf7 3. Bd4+ Kf8 4. Kf6 Ng5 5. Bc5+ Kg8 6. Kf5 Nf7 7. Be7 Ng5 8.
Bb4 Nf7 9. Kg6 Ne5+ 10. Kf6 Nd7+ 11. Ke7 Ne5 12. Bc3 Nc6+ 13. Ke8 Kh7 14. Kf7
Ne5+ 15. Kf6 Nc6 16. Bf3 Nd8 17. Bb4 h5 18. Be4+ Kh8 19. Be7 Nc6 20. Bxc6 Kh7
21. Be4+ Kg8 22. Kg6 Kh8 23. Bd5 h4 24. Bf6#


1-0

Maybe tablebases are not all that great after all.  They don't always find the
shortest solution to a problem.

Tim Frohlick



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