Author: blass uri
Date: 05:57:03 05/28/00
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On May 28, 2000 at 06:02:16, Terje Vagle wrote: >On May 27, 2000 at 12:57:28, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On May 27, 2000 at 11:37:09, Terje Vagle wrote: >> >>>On May 27, 2000 at 10:37:31, Harald Faber wrote: >>> >>>>On May 27, 2000 at 08:47:17, Terje Vagle wrote: >>>> >>>>>Can your program find ..sf5+!! >>>> >>>> >>>>Can YOU give the drawing line? >>>>1...Nf5+?? >>>>2.gxf5 Kxf5 >>>>3.Kd4 #58 announced by TBs >>> >>>What about: >>>>3.... Ke6 >>>>4.Kc5 Kd7 >>>>5.Kb6 Kc8 >>>>6.Lg3 Kd7 >>>>7.Kb5 Kc8 >>> >>>If white want to have a4, he has to give up stopping black king from b7, thereby >>>controlling a8! >> >>Uh, this is a long mate; don't you have the TBs on your own? >>8.Kc6! Kd8 9.Bd6! Ke8 (9...Kc8 #15: 10.Bc7 a3 11.Bd6 Kd8 12.Bxa3) >>10.Kc7 Kf7 11.Kd7 Kf6 12.Bc7 Kf5 13.Ke7 Kf7 14.Bd8 Kf8 15.Ke6 Kg7 (15...Ke8 >>16.Be7 see variation above) 16.Be7 Kg6 (16...Kg8 17.Kf6 Kh7 18.Bf8 Kg8 19.Bh6 >>Kh7 20.Bg7 Kg8 21.Kg6) 17.Bf6 Kh6 18.Kf7 Kh5 19.Be7 Kg4...do you need the last >>44 moves to mate? Puh... > >This is quite strange really; I have the Thompson TB's that came with the >millennium chess system, and they can't find the mate that you suggest. >Is there something wrong with the TB's i have? I guess tha6t they do not include KBP vs KP endgame. It is not a good idea to use thompson tablebases and chessbase engines use nalimov tablebases(they are smaller). You still need a lot of memory to have all of the 5-men tablebases and most of them cannot be in 1 CD. Uri
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