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Subject: Re: Tablebase help requested. 5-men endgame position

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 13:47:33 09/22/00

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On September 22, 2000 at 03:03:09, Martin Grabriel wrote:

>Anyone with 5-men tablebase can tell me white mate in how many moves? Thnks.
>
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>[D]Q7/8/8/1K2k3/8/1P6/6p1/8 b



Don't ask me how or what but Fritz with tb's came up with this irritating run
for a 50-move draw solution. Always only one move considered, no further
variation, always evaluation 0.00

1...g1Q 2.Qf8 Qd1 3.b4 Qd3+ 4.Kb6 Qg6+ 5.Ka5 Qh7 6.Qd8 Qa7+ 7.Kb5 Qb7+ 8.Qb6
Qd7+ 9.Qc6 Qd3+ 10.Kb6 Qa3 11.Qc5+ Ke4 12.b5 Qb3 13.Qd6 Qe3+ 14.Kb7 Kf3 15.b6
Kg2 16.Kc7 Qg5 17.b7 Qg7+ 18.Kc6 Qc3+ 19.Kd7 Qg7+ 20.Qe7 Qd4+ 21.Kc6 Qa4+ 22.Kc7
Qc4+ 23.Kd8 Qg8+ 24.Qe8 Qg5+ 25.Kc7 Qf4+ 26.Kb6 Qb4+ 27.Qb5 Qd4+ 28.Qc5 Qb2+
29.Kc7 Qg7+ 30.Kc6 Qf6+ 31.Kb5 Qb2+ 32.Qb4 Qe2+ 33.Qc4 Qe5+ 34.Kc6 Qf6+ 35.Kc5
Qe7+ 36.Kb6 Qe3+ 37.Qc5 Qb3+ 38.Kc6 Qe6+ 39.Qd6 Qc4+ 40.Kb6 Qb3+ 41.Kc7 Qf7+
42.Qd7 Qf4+ 43.Kc8 Qf8+ 44.Qd8 Qf5+ 45.Kb8 Qe5+ 46.Qc7 Qe8+ 47.Ka7 Qe3+ 48.Qb6
Qa3+ 49.Qa6 Qc5+ 50.Ka8 Qd5 51.Qa3 Qe4 52.Qb3 Kh2 53.Qc3 Qa4+ 54.Kb8 Qe8+ 55.Ka7
Qe7 56.Kb6 Qd6+ 57.Qc6 Qd4+ 58.Kc7 Qg7+ 59.Kc8 Qf8+ 60.Kd7 Qf7+ 61.Kd8 Qf8+
62.Qe8 Qd6+ 63.Qd7 Qb8+ 64.Qc8 Qd6+ 65.Ke8 Qe5+ 66.Kd7 Qd5+ 67.Kc7 Qc5+=


Jeroen ;-}



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