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Subject: Loosen your collar, sparky -- and find the caps-lock key, yours is stuck

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:30:26 12/27/01

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On December 27, 2001 at 22:25:20, Gogi Cviak wrote:

>Guys, if u know a programmer, let me know, somebody who knows chess and
>checkers,  this is strictly for fun, no sales!

There are dozens of programmers who post here.

>can 3 knights beat a rook,

Yes.  And no.  Depends on the position.

>can 2 knights and a bishop win against a rook,

Yes.  And no.  Depends on the position.

>what do the databases say?

Try a lookup and see.  There is an online version of the Nalimov tables that you
can query to your heart's content.

>nalimov and thompson's endings, what does that mean?

Two different endgame tablebase formats.



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