Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 05:25:29 09/22/00
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On September 20, 2000 at 22:47:46, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On September 20, 2000 at 19:17:52, Uri Blass wrote: > >>You may be right and the numbers of Bruce in 12*12 board suggest that you are >>right. >> >>I did not learn seriously the way to mate KBN vs K and I only know that there is >>a stage when the king can escape from the last rank by Kd8-e8-f7 only to get >>later to it again. > >That was what I was concerned about, too. If black tries to go into a large >radius circle, and hits the edge of the board and is trapped, it might imply >that if the board is bigger, eventually there is enough space for the circle to >go all the way around the board, at which point the game is a draw. > >Unfortunately, it would take a large effort to do larger boards. 12 x 12 isn't >that hard, but much larger and the files become enormous. > >bruce I'd be surprised if KBNK was a win at really large board sizes. Of the stronger side's three pieces, only one of them is long-range. Dave
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