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Subject: Re: KRKN

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 10:49:48 11/24/00

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On November 24, 2000 at 13:25:26, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On November 24, 2000 at 12:59:57, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>
>>      http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~elling/rndb/titel.html
>
>The site lists statistics on the number "moves" to win, but this should be in
>"ply" instead I think.
>
>At the bottom, it indicates that the side with the Knight can force a win in 3
>ply! I find that hard to believe! I could only construct wins in 1 ply, but then
>I realized it must be because those positions are illegal positions that are
>being counted. Still I'm curious as to what thise positions might be. Any ideas?

Maybe the following illegal position:

[D]1R6/K7/kn6/8/8/8/8/8 w - -

with the "solution" of 1.Nd5 Ka8 2.Nc7#

Crazy.

When I tried to query the database with this position, I got:

"You don't have permission to access /elling-cgi/rndb/eval on this server."



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