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Subject: Re: Endgame questions-Tablebases and 50 move rule from actual game

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:22:11 06/12/01

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On June 12, 2001 at 16:35:19, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello Uri,
>Thanks for your input.  I gave the position to Deep Shredder and let it go 27
>plies and it did not see a mate.  I find it amazing that two programs on two
>different computers both saw mate in 27 but it appears to be a ghost.  The Beta
>program also saw mate in 26 on the next move but then the one move after that it
>dropped to -61.9 and then to -0.75.
>Regards,
>Jim

There is a mate but clearly longer mate.

The line Rc1 Kb4 Rb1+ Ka3 Kc7 Ka4 Kd6 Ka3 is forced from white's point of view
and here programs can see a forced mate for black.

Uri



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