Author: Jim Monaghan
Date: 09:40:18 06/15/01
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On June 15, 2001 at 10:00:37, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 15, 2001 at 09:36:58, Jim Monaghan wrote: > >>First of all let me say that the book does not give the solution. >> >>[D] 8/P1k2P2/6q1/N2K4/2n3N1/7p/8/8 w - - 0 1 >> >>This position (White to play and win) is given as a curiosity. In the original >>edition there was a fantastic solution almost 4 pages long - a real labour of >>love on Troitzky's part. This solution has been omitted in the present edition, >>since any attempt to solve the ending would only result in failure and >>frustration for the unhappy would-be-solver. (Fred Reinfeld, editor) >> >>So I don't have the answer guys, but it's probably even harder than the other >>one posted earlier. >> >>Cheers, >>Jim > >After a8N+ Kd7 f8N+ white can get 4 knights for a queen and 4 knights seem to be >stroger than a queen. > >Uri Right Uri. It's rather cheap that the editor just hacked the solution out of the book. Publishers should give their readers more credit. So the solution is a tablebase win then. KNNNNvsKQ ... a 7 piece tablebase? I have only heard of 6 man ones. Are there such things as 7 man? That extra piece would add a pile of analysis. Cheers, Jim
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