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Subject: Re: Mate in 14 problem

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:00:32 01/05/02

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On January 05, 2002 at 07:46:36, Uri Blass wrote:

>I think that mates in more than 20 moves that can be practically proved are rare
>in practical games if you do not use tablebases.

I would say that practical mates are positions where finding the mate
or not would have changed the outcome of the game. In the position
you posted, that is clearly not the case, as black is winning anyway.

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GCP



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