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Subject: Re: Cadagues: Gambit - Junior mystery

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 13:39:41 02/02/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 15:44:36, Sune Larsson wrote:

>>>I finished the game manually and Gambit couldn't win. That's how it went:
>>>
>>>1.Kg6 Nf3 2.h5 Be8+ 3.Kh6 Kb2 4.Kg7 Bxh5 5.Kf6 Bg4 6.Ke7 Kc3 7.Kf7 Kd4 8.Kf6 Kd5
>>>9.Kf7 Kd6 10.Kf6 Be6 11.Kg7 Ke7 12.Kg6 Bg4 13.Kh7 Kf6 14.Kg8 Nd4 15.Kh7 Bf3
>>>16.Kg8 Be4 17.Kh8 Nc6 18.Kg8 Nd8 19.Kf8 Ne6+ 20.Kg8 Kg6 21.Kh8 Bf3 22.Kg8 Bg2
>>>23.Kh8 Bd5 24.Kg8 Bc6 25.Kh8 Nf4 26.Kg8 Nd5 27.Kh8 Nb4 28.Kg8 Bd5+ 29.Kh8 Kf6
>>>30.Kh7 Nc6 31.Kh8 Ne5 32.Kh7 Bf3 33.Kg8 Nc6 34.Kh7 Ne7 35.Kh8 Nf5 36.Kg8 Kg6
>>>37.Kh8 Kf7 38.Kh7 Bd5 39.Kh8 Nd4 40.Kh7 Nf3 41.Kh8 Kf6 42.Kh7 Nd4 43.Kh8 Be4
>>>44.Kg8 Ne6 45.Kh8 Bd5 46.Kh7 Ng5+ 47.Kh8 Ke7 48.Kg7 Be4 49.Kg8 Ke6 50.Kg7 Bf5
>>>51.Kg8 Kf6 52.Kh8 Nf3 53.Kg8 Ne5 54.Kh8 Nc6 ½-½
>>>
>>>So, half less point for Gambit, half more for the opponent.
>>>
>>>Enrique
>>
>>Now I realize I'm talking about the position I posted before:
>>
>>[D]8/3b4/8/7K/3n3P/8/k7/8 w
>>
>>In the other one Gambit would have won even with the opponent having "resign"
>>set to off. I think that Tim checked it too.
>>
>>Enrique
>
> So I guess it all comes down to the known fact that Tiger cannot
> mate with a Knight+Bishop. Christophe is aware of this. Such a
> knowledge is of course possible to implement without using TB:s
>
> Sune



I'm not only aware of this, it is actually fixed in the upcoming update.

Thanks to Fernando who complained about it some weeks ago. ;)


    Christophe



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