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Subject: Re: Something vaguely amusing

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 05:38:43 10/06/01

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On October 05, 2001 at 22:42:19, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>[D] 8/8/Pk3p2/1Pp2p1p/K1P2P1P/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>I left this running for a while and when I came back my program was saying mate
>in 12.
>
>The key is obvious, but I'm not used to seeing mate declarations in K+P endings,
>where endgame databases aren't involved.
>
>bruce

I'm just trying tiger with this position, it rocks !

3 best moves, after 10 seconds, hardware celeron@875 (R = king) :

Analysis by Gambit Tiger 2.0 :

1. +- (#12): 1.Rb3 Ra7 2.Ra3 Rb6 3.Ra4 Ra7 4.Ra5 Rb8 5.b6 Ra8 6.Rb5 Rb8 7.Rc6
Ra8 8.b7+ Rb8 9.a7+ Rxa7 10.Rc7 Ra6
2. +- (#12): 1.Ra3 Ra7 2.Rb3 Rb6 3.Ra4 Ra7
3. +- (21.42): 1.a7 Rxa7 2.Ra5 Rb7 3.b6 Rb8 4.Rb5 Rb7 5.Rxc5 Ra6 6.Rc6 Ra5 7.c5
Rb4 8.b7 Rc4 9.b8D Rd4 10.Rb5 Re4





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