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Subject: Re: mate in 55?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:07:10 02/12/02

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On February 12, 2002 at 17:21:40, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>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? :)

Actually, yes, that is probably hoping too much. It will be discussed at the
same time that copy protection is discussed, which should be fairly soon.

>Can you give us some prerelease details?

As usual, when the program reaches the Beta testing stage, I will post all of
the new and updated features here.

jm



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