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Subject: Re: Forget about material

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 03:05:14 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 05:55:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 03, 2002 at 01:05:14, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>[D]k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
>>
>>Mate in 8
>>
>>I tried this at home with Tiger14 and Fritz7 and Shredder5.32. None of them has
>>any idea about mate in 8. Then I tried with Mate2.1, but no solution under 30
>>minutes. What's the problem? Only Yace gives CORRECT mate in few seconds. Is
>>this null move problem?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Interesting. Sjeng zooms up to 20 ply in a few seconds but doesn't see _any_
>mate.

Just try to figure out if you have a huge advantage which is enough to go
hunting the king. If so, then forget about the material and you wont have any
pruning problems. That's what I am doing here (see below in that tread).

Greetings,
Steffen.



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