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Subject: Re: a relatively easy mate in 24 to solve

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:23:24 12/21/01

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On December 21, 2001 at 12:11:48, Hans Havermann wrote:

>On December 21, 2001 at 11:08:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>After 51...a3 52.Kc3 Kxd5 53.g6 hxg6 54.fxg6 there is a tablebases mate in 21.
>
>I got the identical result using William Bryant's Screamer.
>
>>If Gambittiger can see mate in 21 from the root then it means that
>>black blunders at one of the moves 51,52 or 53.
>
>Notwithstanding our results, isn't it *also* possible that a different initial
>(longer) approach results (eventually) in a much shorter tablebase mate?

Using common sense suggest that black has no better alternative at moves 51-53
It seems that Screamer and Tiger have the same bug.

Uri



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