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Subject: Re: KBN vrs K on 10x10 board

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 18:31:39 09/19/00

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On September 19, 2000 at 16:47:44, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On September 18, 2000 at 17:31:14, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On September 18, 2000 at 02:53:05, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>The only way to answer about 10*10 is building the KBN vs K tablebases for this
>>>board and it should take less time than building the 5 piece tablebases in
>>>regular chess.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>It took about an hour on a Pentium Pro 200.  The file is bigger than the 8 x 8
>>version, by several times, but it still wasn't that bad.
>>
>>bruce
>
>	Did you actually build it? Is it generally a win if the strong side does not
>lose a piece in the first few moves?
>José.

KBN vs K on a 10 x 10 board is a win, yeah.  I don't have the stats, but the
number of draws seemed very low.  The same is true with KQ vs KR.

bruce




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