Author: blass uri
Date: 15:04:35 03/29/00
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On March 29, 2000 at 17:13:04, Dann Corbit wrote: <snipped> >I can do it easily with two bishops, since the algorith is pretty obvious except >at the end (and the last bit is easy to memorize). I have heard that it's >possible to mate with two knights, but I would not be able to execute it except >by accident. It is possible to mate with two knights only if the opponent go wrong or if you can mate in 1 move in the initial position. And a knight and a bishop? I would not have a prayer of >checkmating with that combination. A king knight and bishop against king is a tablebases win(except cases whan the king can take the bishop or the knight). Fritz6 won this endgame in the Israeli league against Rebel Century. Fritz6 did not use tablebases but inspite of not using tablebases it could find the win. The important thing that programs need to know without tablebases is to push the king to the right corner(one of the corners that the bishop control) and Fritz knew it. Uri
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