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Subject: Re: A really exciting game and weird engametb error

Author: Larry Clark

Date: 01:30:16 06/11/01

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On June 11, 2001 at 03:44:26, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On June 11, 2001 at 01:35:52, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>In this game Gambit Tiger2.0 (Chesstosteron) operated by me played an amateur
>>engine called queenmaximus, pieces flying all over the place in a great game :-)
>>the peculiar thing happened at move 63 in this position:
>>
>>[D] 6r1/PKP5/8/8/5k2/8/8/8 w - - 0 63
>>
>>where the endgame tb's started repeating the position, luckily i was observing
>>the game and finished the game myself, thus the patzer mate :-), i use the
>>endgame files from the 4 shredder cd's try it out and get a good laugh.
>>Afterwards it tried repeating blacks moves and surely white kept repeating Kb6
>>Kb7 Kb6 etc... :-)
>>
>>
>>[Event "ICC 2 12"]
>>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>>[Date "2001.06.11"]
>>[Round "-"]
>>[White "Chesstosteron"]
>>[Black "QueenMaxima"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
>>[WhiteElo "2470"]
>>[BlackElo "2365"]
>>[Opening "KGD: Nimzovich counter-gambit"]
>>[ECO "C31"]
>>[NIC "KG.04"]
>>[Time "00:55:16"]
>>[TimeControl "120+12"]
>>
>>1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 c6 4. Nc3 cxd5 5. Qh5 Nc6 6. Bb5 exf4 7. Nxd5 g5
>>8. Nc3 Bd7 9. Qe2+ Be7 10. Nf3 h6 11. Nd5 a6 12. Ba4 Bg4 13. Qe5 f6 14. Qe4
>>Kf7 15. Bb3 Kg7 16. Ne3 h5 17. h3 Bd7 18. Nd5 Bc5 19. d3 Na5 20. Nxg5 fxg5
>>21. Qe5+ Kh7 22. Qe4+ Kh6 23. h4 Bd6 24. hxg5+ Qxg5 25. Nxf4 Nxb3 26. Rxh5+
>>Qxh5 27. Nxh5+ Nxc1 28. Qd4 Be5 29. Qxd7 Bxb2 30. Rb1 Bc3+ 31. Kd1 Kxh5 32.
>>Rb6 Nf6 33. Qf5+ Kh4 34. Rxf6 Bxf6 35. Qxf6+ Kg4 36. Kxc1 b5 37. c4 bxc4 38.
>>dxc4 Rhf8 39. Qg6+ Kf4 40. c5 Ke5 41. Qd6+ Ke4 42. c6 Rf1+ 43. Kb2 Rf2+ 44.
>>Kc3 Rxg2 45. Qd3+ Kf4 46. Qf1+ Kg3 47. c7 Rc8 48. Qe1+ Rf2 49. Kd3 Kg2 50.
>>Qe4+ Kg3 51. Qg6+ Kh4 52. Qd6 Rff8 53. Qxa6 Rce8 54. Qh6+ Kg4 55. a4 Kg3 56.
>>a5 Rf3+ 57. Kd4 Rf4+ 58. Kc5 Rff8 59. Qxf8 Rxf8 60. Kb6 Ra8 61. a6 Rf8 62.
>>a7 Rg8 63. Kb7 Kf4 64. Kb6 Kg4 65. Kb7 Kf4 66. a8=Q Rxa8 67. Kxa8 Ke4 68.
>>c8=Q Kd4 69. Qf5 Kc3 70. Qe4 Kd2 71. Qf3 Kc2 72. Ka7 Kd2 73. Kb6 Kc2 74. Kc5
>>Kb1 75. Qf2 Kc1 76. Kc4 Kd1 77. Kc3 Kc1 78. Qf1# {Black checkmated} 1-0
>>
>>Regards
>>Jonas
>
>
>
>You are probably missing the KQP/KR tablebase.
>
>You need to install all the 5 men tablebases, or else you can get this kind of
>problem...
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Correct.  If you have all of the 5-man tablebases, it's mate in 12.

1.c8Q  #12/1  Rxc8  #12/1  2  2.Kxc8  #11/1  0  Ke3  #10/1  0  3.Kc7  #10/1  0
Kd3  #9/1  0  4.Kc6  #9/1  0  Kc4  #8/1  0  5.a8Q  #8/1  0  Kd3  #7/1  0  6.Qe8
#7/1  0  Kd2  #6/1  0  7.Kd5  #6/1  0  Kd3  #5/1  0  8.Qe1  #5/1  0  Kc2  #5/1
0  9.Kc4  #4/1  0  Kb2  #4/1  0  10.Qf2+  #3/1  0  Ka1  #2/1  0  11.Kb3  #2/1  0
 Kb1  #2/1  0  12.Qe1# #1/1  0  1–0



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