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Subject: Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 09:10:58 02/02/01

On February 02, 2001 at 03:19:14, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On February 02, 2001 at 01:28:59, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>[D]8/6kn/3B3p/5K1B/8/8/8/8 b - -
>>
>>resign 1-0! Why? Is this really white's win?
>>
>>JouniDate: 1/2/2001
>
>Jouni,
>
>Gambit Tiger without tablebases solves this as a mate in 46 in 26 minutes on a
>PII 333 with 48 Megs Hash.
>
>1... Ng5 2. Bc5 Nf7 3. Bd4+ Kf8 4. Kf6 Ng5 5. Bc5+ Kg8 6. Kf5 Nf7 7. Be7 Ng5 8.
>Bb4 Nf7 9. Kg6 Ne5+ 10. Kf6 Nd7+ 11. Ke7 Ne5 12. Bc3 Nc6+ 13. Ke8 Kh7 14. Kf7
>Ne5+ 15. Kf6 Nc6 16. Bf3 Nd8 17. Bb4 h5 18. Be4+ Kh8 19. Be7 Nc6 20. Bxc6 Kh7
>21. Be4+ Kg8 22. Kg6 Kh8 23. Bd5 h4 24. Bf6#
>
>
>1-0
>
>Maybe tablebases are not all that great after all.  They don't always find the
>shortest solution to a problem.
>
>Tim Frohlick

Why mate in 46 and then you give a mate in 24 line?  I believe the "mate in 46"
is true as Shredder 5 finds a mate in 47 (maybe a difference in terms) but where
did the above line which is 24 moves come from?
Jim

Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger Tony Werten 16:08:38 02/02/01
- Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger Enrique Irazoqui 16:24:40 02/02/01
  - Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger Tony Werten 16:52:28 02/02/01
    - Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger Enrique Irazoqui 02:55:48 02/03/01
      - Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger Tony Werten 03:37:15 02/03/01
      - Re: Mystery solved by Gambit Tiger Uri Blass 03:14:38 02/03/01
Response to Mr. Walker. Timothy J. Frohlick 09:39:31 02/02/01
- Re: Response to Mr. Walker. James T. Walker 10:28:18 02/02/01
  - Re: Response to Mr. Walker. Robert Hyatt 14:56:52 02/02/01
  - Re: Response to Mr. Walker. Paul 10:46:34 02/02/01
    - Re: Response to Mr. Walker. Dieter Buerssner 17:45:01 02/02/01
      - Re: Egtb mates and Paul 18:10:54 02/02/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and Dieter Buerssner 05:27:24 02/04/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and upper bounds Paul 06:46:59 02/05/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and upper bounds Hermano Ecuadoriano 07:57:14 02/05/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and upper bounds Hermano Ecuadoriano 08:28:28 02/05/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and upper bounds Paul 08:32:55 02/05/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and upper bounds Paul 08:10:02 02/05/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and Hermano Ecuadoriano 08:48:44 02/04/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and Paul 11:06:15 02/04/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and Paul 06:07:30 02/04/01
        
        Re: Egtb mates and Robert Hyatt 21:44:37 02/03/01
  - Re: Response to Mr. Walker. James T. Walker 10:31:38 02/02/01

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