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Subject: Re: Mate for white?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:04:26 12/31/00

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On December 31, 2000 at 06:51:23, Ernst Walet wrote:

>About two weeks ago someone posted the following postsion:
>
>[D]n1QBq1k1/5p1p/5KP1/p7/8/8/8/8 w - -
>
>As far as I can recall it should have been a mate for white, but the programs I
>tried can only find a draw, ie. Shredder4 on a PIII-500E with 128MB hash and all
>3-4-5 men EGTB.  Can someone shine a light on this please?
>
>Thanks, Ernst.


I did not try to solve the position but I read that there is a beautiful
zunzwang so it seems to be a bad idea to use null movers like shredder.

The only program that I would try to solve it instead of you are Junior,Rebel
and Chessmaster because Junior and Rebel are not null movers and chessmaster at
least does not use null move in a stupid way like other programs because I know
that it solved a study that other programs like Fritz could never solve because
of null move problem.

Chessmaster is also very good in finding mates.

Uri



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