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Subject: Re: mate in 55?

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 14:21:40 02/12/02

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On February 12, 2002 at 14:08:05, John Merlino wrote:

>On February 12, 2002 at 12:57:42, ramkumar wrote:
>
>>it is a mate after 55.does your prog. shows a better move then Rd1-b1 and mate
>>sooner then 55?don't use endgameTB for your engine to find out the 55 mate move.
>>[D]k7/r7/8/8/8/8/3P4/3RK3 w - -
>>ram
>
>You're not likely to get a Mate declaration without tablebases.
>
>This is what an Alpha version of Chessmaster 9000 (with tablebases,
>obviously)states about the position:
>
>Rb1 -- White Mates in 55
>Ra1 -- Black Mates in 18
>all other moves are DRAWN!
>
>jm

Great the new CM9 will support tb's!! will it be a fully functional WB engine
(outside the CM GUI) too or is that hoping too much? :)
Can you give us some prerelease details?

Regards
Jonas



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