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Subject: Re: Question about an interesting 6piece endgame

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 05:58:22 05/25/01

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On May 24, 2001 at 19:34:37, Ed Panek wrote:

>On May 24, 2001 at 16:47:15, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>On May 24, 2001 at 16:32:52, Günther Simon wrote:
>>
>>>This interesting position below  happened in a match between F6 and ChessTiger14
>>>and it was a matter of some questions about the right access towards
>>>the EGTBS by CT14 under CB GUIs in the CSS-Forum.
>>>My Chessbase CT14 shows after some time a mate in 95! by Kf7 and Ncb8
>>>but testing it with the latest CB-Native Crafty18.08 the result given
>>>by it was(around the same time as CT14) mate in 100!!
>>>So now I am curious about the exact length of it in this position.
>>>My first idea was to download the given 6piece at Bobs site but I had recognize
>>>(with some disappointment;) that this special file does not exist there..uhuuhu
>>>Maybe its because of the two pawns on one side in it and therefore it is on
>>>the long long "not really urgent to do list"?!
>>>If anyone knows about this file in the net please tell meeee!
>>>Otherwise I would appreciate to know the naked truth about the length of
>>>this mate as I could not sleep before knowing it :))
>>>But I strongly doubt anyone knows this <b>without</b> having that TB...
>>[D]6k1/1P6/n1n5/P7/8/8/3K4/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Günther Simon
>
>
>I am working on it now with H732 and all 345 Tb's..we shall see the answer soon
>
>hopefully!
>Ed


Well, I let Crafty and Hiarcs calculate for several hours. I think Crafty is
better here actually. It stated mate in 99 as the fastest possible.


Ed



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